A Fountain of Bargains - Back to School
Back to School is a time that kids dread and parent's celebrate.
You can save money and valuable vacation time by shopping online. Below I list web sites with interesting back to school related supplies. You will find stores hawking
textbooks, office supplies, uniforms and the latest school fashion trends.
You can find school related links on LinksAlive.com.
Save money this semester by renting your textbooks. A book rental includes return packaging and postage so that you can get your books as the semester begins and return them when it ends. This saves the hassles of selling books when the class is over.
The best part of school is the bike ride home. I admit, I often took Supertramp's advice and took the long way home. Back to school is the time to think of upgrading or repairing the bike. Parents, bikes are great exercise. Encouraging your child to ride to school will not only improve their health, it will improve their sense of confidence (and you won't have to drive them everywhere or lend them your car if (gasp) they have a license.) (more bargains)
I am not sure how they do it. Somehow, Pacific Sunwear has some sort of weird connection to the American teenage psyche. PacSun ends up filling up its store with the clothes that students want. It might be the endless hours they spend on the beach talking with teens about fashions, but year after year PacSun miraculously carries the current fashions that fill the nation's high schools. Even clueless parents are likely pick up the right gear when shopping online at Pacsun.com. (more bargains)
Why not get your back to school supplies from a store designed for teachers? The Homeroom Teacher has piles and piles of education supplies including craft items, lesson plans, books and supplies. Gobs, and gobs and gobs of supplies. If you aren\'t a teacher, I promise not to tell. If you are a teacher ... enjoy a store designed for you!
The knowledgeable staff at Woodwind and Brasswind can help set you up with the right instrument for the upcoming year in band. The store offers a variety of student specials on all popular band instruments from clarinets, oboes, and trumpets to the venerable tuba. (more bargains)
Be too cool for school. It's back to school, time to load the kids with the latest electronic gear, MP3 players, alarm clocks, etc.. What better place to find cool back to school items than the store dedicated to the process of discovery.
OfficeMax is a great source for school supplies. You will find everything you need in class and in your home study area. OfficeMax carries everything from the mundane supplies like pencils and papers to PDAs and computers of the electronic generation. (more bargains)
Rocky Mountain Trail is the place to find packs for your ventures into the wilds of the high rockies or your school gym locker. Rocky Mountain Trail specializes in back packs. You will find bags ideal for skating, day trips or carrying your school supplies. Back to School should entail a trip through Rocky Mountain Trails.
Questia is quite simply my favorite web site. This is a subscription service with a massive database of books and texts. Students using Questia have a tremendous advantage over those searching on the Internet for references. Personally, I love Questia for the quality information. I am able to use the service to read thousands of important historical texts that just are not available in the local library systems. The subscription is something like $120 a year. I am glad to pay that for a company that is providing quality reference material on the net.
Category Specials
- Campus Book Rentals LLC Students can enter to win a textbook scholarship. All that is needed to enter is some brief information and at the end of each semester a couple random winners are selected to get up to $250 worth of textbook rentals. (No purchase required) [ends 11/25/2010]
- FTD Send them Back to School with an FTD care package of goodies [ends 09/26/2010]
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