Three Tips to Hang On to Your Ca$h
School can be a money pit, plain and simple. There are a lot of expenses, but with vigilance on your part, at the very least you can avoid getting ripped off! With a little more effort, you can get much of what you need at reasonable prices. It’s about being resourceful, creative — and knowing the traps.
A few tips to get you started:
- Books are a major student expense (see #3 in this article from Yahoo Finance), as you’re probably finding out. In response to the Yahoo post, Dr. Ralph Meyer, University of Cincinnati Professor Emeritus offers an explanation and some tips about managing the cost of textbooks:
“Yes, [textbooks] are outrageously priced. Publishers are on a 3-yr. cycle for new editions so that students CAN’T sell them back to the bookstore. I’ve reviewed many textbooks and find almost no changes from previous editions. What I do is tell my students to use the old editions – the page numbers may be