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When you are considering purchasing a new piece of artwork for your wall the last thing you are probably thinking about is mermaid pictures. When most of us think of mermaids we think of a woman with long flowing blond hair whose legs have magically been transformed into a fish tail. Granted most adults don’t think about mermaids on a regular basis, but there is a group of people that do. Young girls love the mystery and beauty of these sea creatures and if you have a small lady in your life it’s a given that sooner or later she’s going to become fascinated with everything mermaids, including mermaid pictures.

After Disney’s release of the movie “The Little Mermaid” the notion that a mermaid was appealing took off. Little girls were dressing as Ariel, the mermaid for Halloween and their bedrooms were adorned with blankets, toys and clothing that depicted mermaids. Mermaid pictures were very popular. Not all of the mermaid images that found their way onto bedroom walls were purchased though. Children have such active imaginations and it’s not uncommon to visit the bedroom of a pre-teen girl and find a mermaid picture or two that she’s drawn.

Coloring books are also filled with things that children love. Puppy dogs, kittens, flowers and mermaid pictures can be found inside just waiting to be filled in with color so they can jump from the page. It’s wonderful to walk into a home with small children and see a refrigerator or bulletin board covered with pictures all torn from coloring books. The crayons marks are usually running outside the lines drawn on the page to create beautiful and priceless works of art.

Although much different than the fantasy of becoming a Princess, a mermaid does have its charm. For one, a mermaid can swim and she’s always beautiful regardless of how much time she’s spent under the water. You’d be hard pressed to find any mermaid pictures that show one with wet hair.

As children grow they begin to understand that some things aren’t real. No longer do they wait for Santa Claus to come down the chimney and the Easter Bunny becomes a distant memory. The same is said for mermaids. Once a youngster realizes that there really aren’t pretty girls swimming under the ocean they will quickly lose interest in actually becoming one. They will still glance at the images of mermaids and remember a time when they wanted very much to be that beautiful graceful creature. They’ll think of that every time they see mermaid pictures. And as those young women grow into mothers themselves they’ll find a renewed interest in the mermaid pictures that their own daughters draw for them.

You can’t always get college text books cheap. Oh sure, there are those internet sites that promises to send all of your college books for a fraction of the cost that you would pay in an ordinary store. Don’t believe that nonsense for a moment. You’re in college, for Gods sake, it’s beneath you. The fact is, unless you just so happen to sign up for all classes which are taught from the most popular college books, there’s no way that you’ll get your college text books cheap.

Last semester, for example, I had five classes. One of them was a medieval literature class, and most of my college text books were really just old paperback additions of books from hundreds of years ago. Some of these college text books came quite inexpensively, as I could find used editions from previous years, but others of them weren’t so cheap and there was so much reading that the prices quickly added up. Besides this was a rarely printed scholarly source book on medieval studies written by none other than the professor herself. If you think that this text book came cheaply, you have another thing coming. $45 and that’s for a used copy.

I couldn’t get many of my other college text books cheap either. My computer science book cost about $60, which is not surprising. The only good thing about that is that, since this is the first year that we are using this particular book, it is likely that they will be using it next year as well. I will probably be able to sell it back at a good proportion of the price. Nonetheless, it seems like a lot to pay for a book that I will use once and then be done with forever. I mean, it’s good to be able to make back a lot of the money that you have to spend, but it would be even nicer to get my college text books cheap in the first place.

Of course, you can get some college text books cheap. My mathematics book cost me nothing at all because my old roommate had taken that course the year before me. The only thing better than getting college text books cheap, is getting them for nothing at all. I simply had to trade with him. I gave him my old “History until 1650” text book for his “First Year College Calculus” book. It was a good trade for everyone.