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HollyGolightly

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Glad your son is fine arista !

whew DiO'Bolic ! You've got weddings to think of on the horizon too. Best have a large stash. I always played that payment plan trick. For some reason when our oldest was in college, those scholarship funds were always disbursed just after all the due dates. Hugh PITA.

do1you9love? said:
Driving in to work, there's a shop on the corner. Used to be an antique shop but they closed and had covered up windows for a few months. Today there is a awning (yes, canvas not aluminum!) and the name of the shop is Gilt & Ash.

Nope, I'm not going in there for anything!:O_O:
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Oh come on! You have to. It's exactly our kind of store. If the owner looks something like this - beware
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DiO'Bolic said:
I went with my Plan B, which was to set up a payment plan hoping the financial aid would come through before the second payment was due. Checked today and the financial aid came through, and I only owe $7.50 anymore. Had to waste $35 to set up a payment plan, which included a stipulation she commit to the Spring 2017 semester. College textbooks have become a real racket also. You can’t even get used books most of the time anymore because the professors in most classes don’t want to have to deal with homework, assignments, or labs. So you need to buy a new book that comes with a access code that only is valid for a few months after purchase in order to do the homework, assignments, or labs over the internet. Used books and rented books don’t have valid codes. Last semester books for 5 classes were almost $900. She said quite a few students last semester had to re-buy their books new after classes started, and go through the hassle of returning used books they had purchased beforehand online. I checked every book online for this semester but they all warned the access codes for used books were no longer valid.

And when did Barnes and Nobel take over running college bookstores?

Another thought...
My youngest daughter (the boy I always wanted) is a high school sophomore this year. She’s on the tennis team this Fall. The coach decided he was only going to put Seniors and Juniors on the varsity team. My daughter has to go to all the JV games and the varsity games because he plays her on the varsity team ahead of some varsity players as she’s better than some. She doesn’t feel that is right that he plays her in the varsity games but refuses to put her on the varsity team. She’s been quite vocal about it. The coach told her he’s getting sick of her demeanor, stubbornness, and orneriness. I wonder where she gets it from? :umm:
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I could possibly pay a to the stump on your behalf, if you'd like.......won't cost you much. Just let me know
 
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mjs9153 said:
If you need a smile..just a bulldog enjoying the rain and his hammock.. :)
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Adorable!

I've got to get moving - feed the kids, pack the lunches, sign the things, drop them off, feed the dogs, tidy the kitchen, go to work. Every morning, M-F. It's my life. I should home school. I'd cut out 75% of the morning drudgery.

Happy Friday!! It's no-cook, do nothing night for us!
 
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DiO'Bolic said:
Does it come in a tube? :)

I've checked them out already. The problem is no access codes for rentals, because they aren't any good after being rented. Their prices on new books aren't much different than the school bookstore... at least on the books I've checked. And I don't get why it could take up to a month for you to get your books. Do they make them to order?
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Surprised by this. We've had excellent luck using them to rent books from and shipping has taken less than a week. They ship right to the kid's school. My son buys the books (always cheaper from Chegg) he feels will help him or that the profs' recommend he keeps that apply to his major, but ships the ones back that he only needs to fulfill his general course requirements. Shipping the books back hasn't been an issue either.
 
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