This is timely - but only if you are on the ball. There are a lot of options out there when it comes to buying and selling textbooks. As a recent participant in the process, I can tell you that you can definitely save some money...
How to Find Cheaper College Textbooks - Bucks Blog - NYTimes.com
I watched a video today about some guy's rant that the institution of education needs to catch up with technology. The premise being that it no longer pays to go to college just to memorize facts. Everything (facts) you are taught in class can be had on the internet. The worth of information has declined so much that it is now free, as in cost, and free, as in liberated.
There may be some truth to this. As long as there are a growing number to websites that produce lists like this, and not just videos, either. The only reason you fork out money will be to get the diploma.
On the other hand...
Quite a few of us are so damn lazy that we just need a kick in the pants and want someone to schedule our life for 4 years.
100 Video Sites Every Educator Should Bookmark | AccreditedOnlineColleges.org
This is a great picture of the actors.
Star Wars cast at imgur: the simple image sharer | Image Gallery
I'm not usually into homeopathic remedies, but some of these do make sense.
19 bizarre home cures that really work - Alternative medicine- msnbc.com
Quote by Woody Allen: "In my next life I want to live my life backwards....": "'In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people's home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day. You work for 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born. And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa-like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila! You finish off as an orgasm!'
— Woody Allen"
Some Cartoons just seem to pull it off...
imgur: the simple image sharer | Image Gallery
These are tough times. Not just for the poor, but for most people, I would think. There is a certain mentality out there that has blossomed across the nation: Cheap is good, free is better. When you happen across a sale at a store, its a good feeling. Getting something for free is like hitting the jackpot. Usually, getting that 'something' for free, involves purposeful business strategies on the part of the company giving away the free stuff. The company usually gets a bigger return on their effort to get you into the store for the few free items available.
There are other ways to get free stuff also, though; You beg, borrow, or steal.
This article reports how one large store happens to be throwing out 'last weeks fashion apparel' that could be used for supplying homeless and less fortunate individuals. The people searching through the tossed out clothes find that the articles of clothing have been 'destroyed' to a point of not being usable. The clothes have cuts in them to render them unusable. Scissors have been used on some items, knives on others. Some clothes have escaped the wrath of the knife. Most are unusable, though.
There seems to be a 'gosh-darn-it' in there somewhere. This store could just leave the clothes alone and let whoever wants to dig in the trash find themselves some good-as-new threads. They could even take the bins full of clothes down to skid-row and hand them out to the less fortunate. Heck, they could even drop them of at a local charity and let them handle it. Anything but destroy them.
My point is this: Let the company do what they want with the clothes and leave them alone. They could have been a little more discreet about their destruction process to escape the press, though. The rights of the company have been totally removed from the discussion here. I refuse to pass judgment on them for doing what they have every right to do. The clothes are still the property of the store. Yes, they could have chosen to donate them to a charity or church, but chose not to. Its still their choice. But to build hatred against the company for doing its business is not right.
Maybe the bins will be empty next time they are searched. And maybe someone deserving of some new clothes will have them next week. And you will still be thinking about how you could have had free clothes. Only this time the company will have carried out its business away from the public eye.
Tell me your thoughts.
About New York - Clothes Discarded by H and M in Manhattan Are First Destroyed - NYTimes.com
