Buying textbooks at a cheaper price

Ok so school is starting back up, which means buying the dreaded textbooks. You know, those wonderful, huge books which you have to carry around for classes which barely ever even go into the readings, so you wonder why you had to buy the stupid thing at an exorbitant price at the bookstore because the teacher just demanded that you buy it now because you were going to need it for the next class meeting...yeah, those books.

So I decided to share my little secret (partly because my mom said that I should tell because she always talks to people that say they don't know any other way of saving on books), a secret which I have no doubt a lot of you already know anyways.

A few years ago my mom told me about this really awesome website which actually does the price comparing for you when it comes to deciding which online store is selling the book at the best price; this site has literally saved me and my mom hundreds of dollars a semester when it comes to buying textbooks for school. It's called cheapesttextbooks.com.

There are basically a few steps to help with using this website and getting the best price for your books.

1. You need to get the ISBN off of the book. This has actually gotten easier now because most school websites are now supplying you with the course textbook that is need when you sign up for the course, so that's cool. There are usually two ISBNs, one which is about 7 numbers in length (I believe) and the other that is 13 numbers in length. You want to get the longest one to be absolutely sure that you are going to order the right edition of the book.
2. Go to the website and enter in the ISBN on the search engine and make sure you select the ISBN bubble next to the search engine.
3. The site will come up with all of the website that are selling this book, ranging from USED to NEW and the price of each. It usually shows Amazon Marketplace, Half.com, Textbooks.com, and so on. Cheapesttextbooks.com will even show you what that site will charge for in shipping and whether there are any deals or coupons that are going on as well.
4. At this point you just click on the link of each site, and sometimes I will find that there is an even better priced used book that someone is selling that cheapesttextbooks didn't find.
5. After you've used the book for the entire semester and you know you won't need to use it again, you can sell it through Half.com or Amazon Marketplace for about the same price as what you bought it for, maybe a few dollars less. This way, you've essentially bought the book for nothing.

I hope this helps. This website has seriously been a life saver on many occasions (I've already looked at the books I need to buy this semester and where it would have cost me about 150 dollars to buy the used books at the bookstore, it's going to be about 70-80 when I went through this site). The only thing I would warn about is making sure you give yourself enough time to order the books, because you are buying it from some other student from who knows where and sometimes it takes a while to get delivered to you because it depends on when and how they ship it. There has been one time where it took my book a while to get to me. But that's also why there's reviews on the people selling the books.

At last, my love has come along....

Oh man it has been such a while since I decided to write on here...but I just had to write about this week because it has just been so amazingly excitingly awesome!! One of my best friends got married to one of my other friends and I felt so blessed to be able to attend the reception and be a part of it.

sorry about the blurry :(

She looked so happy! These two have been together for almost ten years. And I also got to finally meet baby waylon...who is one month old and a friend's son. He was the spotlight of the whole night lol...stole the whole show. I also got back into touch with an old friend and I'm hoping that this is the new start and we can be friends again...but I do also still hold some walls and know that we can't entirely go back to how we were but I still hope. I know that on these blog things I'm usually supposed to come up with some sort of witty paragraphs that make me sound smart and shiz...but I find that every time I come on here I can't do that so I don't. And seeing as how I'm probably the only one reading this..I'm cool with that. This has been my week. There was a lot more that happened but I'm tired and I am going home for my birthday week tomorrow to be with my mom. So ciao bella!

Anyways, these are my words and feelings. These are my beliefs and the thoughts that I live with.  For now, this is what I have and, you know, don't read if you don't want to. Or do read if you do want to. If you don't want to read and you do anyways...well that's your own problem :)

Peace out...I'm gone.

Talkin bout my generation

So school is starting in a week and a half and my roommate/best friend of ten years has decided that she is going to move out and leave me with our other roommate, a person that I like very very much but who also has a lot of personal issues and drives me up the wall...we'll see how this semester pans out.

Said best friend and our other friend's beautiful baby boy

On another side note it seems that my other roommate (the one who drives me up a wall) has, all of the sudden, decided to bring a bunch of boxes up from her parent's house to our small apartment...an apartment which already has a garage full of her stuff that she'd brought from storage as well as her boyfriend's place last year. We really have no space and she has decided to do this without really talking to me about it..the only way I knew this was happening was because our other roommate (the one moving) told me about it. I dunno about other people but I would think it would be a good thing to kind of...I dunno...talk to the other parties of the household to see if this is something that would be okay with them. I know that me and my bff had wanted to use the garage for it's actually purpose, to hold a car, not to be a storage unit. So now I don't know what to do. I'm a hard person and I don't quite know how to tell her, nicely, that I don't want her stuff up here and that she should get a storage unit if she wants to bring things that she doesn't plan on using up.

Dilemma, dilemma, dilemma.

I guess if these are the most problems I have going on in my life right now, I should be thankful...because it's really not that bad.

Anyways, these are my words and feelings. These are my beliefs and the thoughts that I live with.  For now, this is what I have and, you know, don't read if you don't want to. Or do read if you do want to. If you don't want to read and you do anyways...well that's your own problem :)

Peace out...I'm gone.