It never fails. At the beginning of every school semester I blow tons of money on new school supplies. I need new pens, pencils, notebooks, binders, paper… Cheap textbooks would be a welcome relief, but they’re so pricey even when you compare the different web sites and stores. (I want to shoot somebody every time we rarely or never use one of the books that a professor assigns us.) Most of my cheap school supplies I’m able to just find online. In my off time, I tutor younger kids. Most of them have parents that can afford to buy them school supplies and materials, but there are plenty that have troubles finding elementary and middle budget school supplies. And of course, it always seems like every math teacher requires a different calculator. How they can require you to fork out the dough for expensive TI Graphing calculators I’ll never know.