For example, I’m writing this on a new laptop. Being paid to go to school is a great thing… the expenses in doing so aren’t so great. I set out to save money on everything that I could. Tuition is pretty much set in stone, so that leaves books, materials, etc… So… Looking at the school’s library website before classes started, I wrote down all the books I needed (suckers left out the ISBN numbers, so the start was pretty rough). I found a website that will rent you textbooks. So for the low, low price of ONE of my books, I rented all three of them. Yay!!!! Savings! Then, after school has started, I find out I still need two more books that weren’t listed the week before. CRAP!
Oh, did I mention that we were in California the first week of school? Oh, and I didn’t get paid for another week or so? DAMN. After a search, I did find an alternative version of the books (read FREE). I’ve finally made it past the first week of school… got all the books I need… tuition paid and can finally get the rest of the grant. We had planned from day one that we were going to need a laptop as our dinosaur of a desktop computer was NOT going to be conducive to doing any type of school work.
Jump to Best Buy. We found a great laptop, big screen, plenty of memory, huge drive, etc… for less than the one Katie liked at wally-world. Having enough left over after saving tons of money on books, we decided to get a hers and his set.
Being without for so long has left us with a guilty feeling in the pit of our stomachs… do we really deserve TWO laptops? did we need to get ones with such big screens? are we just going overboard and overcompensating for being without for so long? Who knows. I’m not going to dwell on it, and enjoy the heck out of our purchase. For one thing, it’ll be nice to do homework on something that doesn’t look like it was made in the dark ages of the computer age.
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