I Now Know Why College Students are BROKE! AHHH!

~Money gets spent everywhere~

Today, I decided to go shopping for my art supplies for my fundamentals of drawing class. Boy, was I in for a surprise.

 I hadn't realized that my Art professor was being so specific with what to buy on the list, but when I was there. I couldn't find any of the things I needed right away. By the by, I went to a store called Pearl Paint. First things I needed on the list were 3 of the four sketchbooks. Those had to be 18" x 24" one spiral and one not, 100 pages, medium weight, and all purpose paper. When my sister, Macky, and I had found them, they were $20 and up. That is pretty cheap, but for both together that would be $40 something. And neither of them were spirals. I just couldn't find a spiral that had over 100 sheets.

Then we went to look for the pens, which I was able to find easily. After came the Vine Charcoal, which Masay, my sister's friend, told me I could take some of hers. Then I went to find the pastels, for they were in the same aisle. That was such a pain, because I needed 6 certain colors, but none of the boxes had said what colors were in them. Also, the single pastels that you could buy, didn't have my colors. So I ended up buying a 24 pastel one.

The rest of  my excursion around the store was well, interesting. Things were just organized in things I was not used to. Eventually I did find everything. But the things that were such a pain to find where these.

• Paint Brushes (#2 or #8 and 1" flat)
• 100 page, all purpose paper, Sketchbooks.
• Pastels( 6 hues)
• White Soft Chalk

In the end, everything cost a little over $120.00, with the student discount. But if I think about it, that is not that much. This is my first exposure to expenses. Shows what I knew. I mean I knew if you took a science/medical/business major, your books would be mad expensive. My books were not all that expensive. In fact, my books equaled the amount for my art supplies.

Here's a lesson I learned. You should always try to find things yourself, and if you can't ask, but don't get what they tell you to buy, unless it's absolutely last resort. Why? Employees generally point you to the most expensive things, despite there being cheaper ones.

I do know however, if I went somewhere else, it would have been more expensive. Art supplies are generally expensive in general. I think I got off easy, and I bought a ton of stuff.

*sigh* Alas, college students are broke because professors tell us to buy too many things. Does it look like we are made of money?

"If you want to feel rich, just count the things that you have that money can't buy" - Ancient Proverb


Think about it, live it, or let it absorb.

Question: Why are there so many people who don't know the value of money?

Have a lot of fun people, especially those who don't have freedom from school anymore...*like me*
~Salazar De Almont