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The month before my daughter began attending college we ordered all her required books from the college book store. The invoice amount was over $1000. Add that to all the other expenses and I thought, holy cow this is going to be more than I thought. Science books are expensive. For three years, that's six semesters of bookstore invoices like the first one. One day near the beginning of her last year of college my daughter shared a conversation she had  with a classmate and she said she rented her text books. What? Rented books?  We look into renting college text books and the savings were unbelievable. We saved well over half of what we were paying buying them from the bookstore. Just think of the amount of money we could have saved for six semesters. I am so glad we know now to rent college books since daughter number 2 is now in her first semester. Campus Book Rentals offers Free Shipping and returns which is great because books can be heavy and expensive to ship. If...

January and February seem to be the longest months of Winter. The holiday decorations are put away, the twinkling lights that adorn houses and trees are unplugged and the dark nights are here once again. By mid January I am ready to bring the Valentine's Day tote up from the basement and fill the house with hearts of all shapes and sizes. And how about those little conversation hearts-who doesn't love reading those!  My favorite thing about Valentine's day is the cards. Classroom cards that is. Do you remember hoping you'll get a card from that special someone one in your class you had a crush on?  On the day of the classroom party when you were allowed to open up your homemade "mailbox" it was like a bounty of little love notes and cards with lollipops attached. You could take home your "mailbox" at the end of the day and look at those cards for ever and ever. That is the great thing a greeting cards, you can keep them forever and re-read them as mu...