Cheap Notebooks Help Us To Realize That Frugal Is The New Cool

When it's time to pack your child off to college or to prepare for the term or semester ahead

, budgets can often take a hammering. Every parent knows how expensive an education can be and the start of a training year always approaches too quickly, or so it seems. It can be difficult to budget at the best of times and parents are often forced to consider how they can "get by" during this period of preparation.

There are many things that we can do to prepare for the next year in college without breaking the bank or forcing consolidation elsewhere. Technology allows us to take advantage of many cost-saving activities and some of the equipment available these days can really stand up to the job without too much upfront expenditure. Cheap notebooks are available instead of high-end, expensive laptops or those increasingly old-fashioned desktop machines.

Traditionally, we used to head off to college with a suitcase full of new textbooks. These books were, of course, rather expensive to purchase and consequently would eat into our budget. These days, you can consider joining a book rental program instead, as there are a number of different programs and websites that focus on this area. You could also consider downloading online versions of textbooks instead, which you can access via one of the cheap notebooks you will pick up for the purpose.

We have several different ways of communicating with each other these days and also a number of different ways to receive our entertainment. Cable television can be very expensive indeed, upwards of $60 per month and it is not necessary. You can access some of the favorite movies or television shows using a rental subscription or getting online through one of those websites such as Hulu. No wonder that cheap notebooks are becoming the rage as we can use them to communicate and entertain at the same time.

An Internet connection can be relatively inexpensive to set up and this will allow you to take advantage of the relatively cheap notebook's ability to bridge to the online world. Remember that you can use programs such as Skype for your Internet connection to communicate very cheaply and you don't have to resort to some of those flashy, but expensive smartphones.

Other manufacturers often suggest that you buy the most high-end expensive computers for educational purposes. There really is no need for this and it is unlikely that your educational requirements specify a particularly high level of technology. You can get perfectly adequate processing speeds and memory capacity in cheap notebooks, that will more than meet the requirements of the typical curriculum. Don't forget that they are very portable, as well.

If you hadn't realized already, frugal is the new chic. Your student won't feel somehow inferior if he or she is using some of the more frugal items of equipment. Quite the contrary, the other students realize that it is now "cool" to be seen to be using an educational budget the smart way.

Without a doubt, a Frugal student can be a successful one. Education does not have to be expensive, come what may. If we find one of those many, cheap notebooks on the market, other parts of the budget can be saved for those all too important times of relaxation and rest.

by: Olga Gierowitz

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