• the_itsb (she/her)English
      9•2 years ago

      In the US, in the weeks leading up to the new school year starting late August/early September, many retailers will offer discounts on school supplies - paper, pencils and pens, backpacks, etc - to attract customers. Many clothing retailers market it to students as a great time for a wardrobe refresh or to reinvent your look entirely and offer discounts. Same deal with electronics, especially since higher math courses tend to have required calculators. Some states - including Ohio, where I live - offer a sales tax holiday on a weekend during this season to help with the expense involved.

      It’s wicked expensive with just one kid, I can’t imagine having several.

        • @KreekyBonez@lemm.ee
          3•2 years ago

          more of a “back to putting off work from school” sale

          I used to rush to do my homework in between classes and on the bus, to make more time for short SNES games. I can’t imagine what it’s like for kids, now that they have enormous open-world games to distract them.

      • @yimby@lemmy.ca
        4•2 years ago

        And this is the second biggest shopping season of the year, only beat by Christmas.

        • edric
          1•2 years ago

          TIL. I would’ve thought Black Friday would be 2nd.

    • @aradon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4•2 years ago

      It’s the time in America at the end of summer when the “back to school” list’s come out for each grade of each school.

  • korstmos
    6•2 years ago

    I like how textbooks all have ISBNs
    They make pirating them so much easier!

      • korstmos
        6•2 years ago

        Every book has a unique number used to identify them, the ISBN (International Standard Book Number). If you can figure out the ISBN of a book, it becomes an easy search term for piracy, because now you aren’t looking for a long title, you’re looking for a unique number!
        Most bookstores will list the ISBN of a book on their website, so that step should be pretty easy.

        Then to commit the piracy, you can often just google the ISBN + filetype:pdf and get a free PDF pretty frequently.
        There is also library genesis (libgen), where you can look up pirated books via their ISBN, which has a super wide selection.
        And if even libgen does not have it, you can try torrent trackers (read up more on !piracy )

        Of course most of those options are legally questionable or illegal depending on where you live, and I of course would not recommend you actually perform them ;)