See ya facebook, twitter, instagram, snapchat, vine and all that other crap! We outta here! It’s time to take a weekend to unplug and explore the nature that surrounds your campus. BUT WAIT!!! I don’t have a sleeping bag, tent, or Sherpa! That is where BIGWORDS.COM can help. Uberbot can find you everything you need and for a fraction of retail

Football season has taken over our twitter feed. Only one thought comes to mind : Football Party. You can turn any small apartment into a game day headquarters with the help of BIGWORDS.COM. We put together an affordable list of college football necessities for your kick off extravaganza! 1. Crock Pot Single handedly the most key staple to any party is

We are not sure why but dressing yourself before class is the most daunting task. What’s clean? What matches? Is that a BBQ stain or blood on your shirt?  Ugh.. I am already exhausted.  In your freshmen year you probably looked like a walking GAP catalog. In your 2nd year you are probably resembling a tree sloth (neither is a good thing). Like you, we spend  A

This post is inspired by a broken air conditioner and insane heat permeating my apartment walls. I was praying and asking Helios to stop riding his damn chariot of fire around my neighborhood when it occurred to me that summer is far from over and I need to take action into my own hands. It’s time for a pool party.  One of the

Are you the type of person whose favorite distraction is to experiment in the kitchen? Are you a “foodie”? (I find that term so tacky.) Well… In college, when I wasn’t involved in student organizing, I was home, making meals, and offering the leftovers to anyone who would eat them. People saw it as an old-world gesture and it became

Every once in a while it’s important to remind the thrifty masses what BIGWORDS.COM is all about. You are on this site (most likely) because you got a killer deal on text books for the fall. What if you got a killer deal on everything  you could possibly want? DVDs, blenders, fake snakes, Nike running shoes, yoga mats, uggs (yes, those ugly

One thing I don’t need to tell you is that life ain’t cheap. Rent, insurance, gas prices and the cost of college may be overwhelming. You may even know that the cost of living has remained on a slight but steady increase for the last several decades. For example, textbooks have risen by 82% since 2002. That’s more than the

Boundless.com has been added to the BIGWORDS.com price comparison.  It is a totally different type of eBook, so I thought I’d take a second to let you know what you can expect if you buy from Boundless. First, a Boundless eTextbook is NOT identical to the book it replaces.  Instead, it’s a book that the good people at Boundless put

It’s that time of year where you don’t want to starve in order to afford expensive textbooks and need an affordable place to buy them without going broke. Don’t know where to begin? Not a problem. The geniuses at BIGWORDS just got together with the Uberbot and drafted up some healthy pointers to help you save over $1,000 this academic school

    No one likes bugs. I never liked them in the cereal my dad used to buy us on clearance at Big Lots, I wasn’t fond of hearing they were occupying the bed of my roommate in NYC, and I certainly don’t care for them in my computer programs and phone apps. I should stop eating in my bed.

Never ones to rest on our laurels OR our hardies (not even sure what that means), we finally decided to stop re-reading our crunchbase profile and launch the MOST REQUESTED FEATURE you’ve all been waiting for. Per-Item Preferences Forever, BIGWORDS has shown you the cheapest possible prices on textbooks. But if you didn’t want to rent one of your books,

While I did have an amazing, scenic running tour of Battery Park, the new Freedom Tower and sail boats crossing paths with the Statue of Liberty, I did at one point very attractively dry heave photo bomb a family…

BIGWORDS has added Skyo textbook rentals to the site. Skyo is owned by Follett, one of the largest bookstore owners and wholesale distributors of textbooks. From what we can tell, their availability and pricing is just spectacular, and their customer service reputation is great. BIGWORDS always stays on top of the latest trends in the textbook industry to help you,

Just a quick rundown in case you didn’t know what exactly BIGWORDS.com is and how we can help you save huge on textbooks. BIGWORDS.com: Compares ALL Textbook Sites We’re not out to compete, only to compare. Using BIGWORDS.com means searching all of the most popular textbook sites on the web at once to find only the lowest price on the

Today, Amazon started offering deeply discounted textbook rentals if the books are in their inventory. As far as we know, BIGWORDS.com is the first to cover them in a price comparison site. The offers are only valid to customers living in CA, KS, KY, ND, NJ, NY, PA, TX, and WA. It has something to do with tax. So, on