So this new year will all that is going on I have been on more of a quest to save money thank usual. I mean I have always been frugal, but now with an impending move I have been trying to save every penny possible! It dawned on me a while back " I have a student I.D. and a .edu email address" I wonder if there are any good student discounts I cant get in on? Well I am still on the hunt ,but two great ones I came across were both from Amazon.com.

A few months ago I was able to get a free years worth of their Prime service just because I have a .edu email address as a student. If you are not familiar with Prime basically you get FREE two day shipping on any order that is sold or fulfilled by Amazon! Usually without Prime you can get free super saver shipping, BUT you have to order over $25.00 in order to qualify and its not as fast. Now I get what I need super quick and I do not need a minimum. In reality the shipping is always overnight for me as I have a warehouse in my state so I get things in less than 24 hours! It looks likes the offer has changed to six months of membership at a discount, but if you use Amazon as much as I do I would take that too!

Next is a deal I just got on Friday. As you know, I am taking a digital photography class this semester and possibly even another next semester, and we are working with Adobe Photoshop Cs5 at my school. Now I had been using paint shop pro X2, but I have always wanted PS but didn't have an extra oh $1000.00 sitting around for it. So I thought I would look around to see if there were student discounts. Sure enough there are. Now here is the kicker. Adobe offers it online for $299.00 for students. I thought OK If I save for a while I can get it. For the hell of it I looked at Amazon which I always do for price comparison and I was shocked and stoked to find the same Adobe Photoshop Extended CS5 Student and Teacher Edition for $149.99!!!
 Now I know that Amazon rocks, its my favorite online retailer, but I didn't think they would beat the products own website order by that much money!!So yeah I ordered it!! I cant wait until we start to use it next week in class as its partnered with a digital darkroom class. Woo hoo great software great student discounts!

I know that Microsoft offers discounts as well because two semesters ago I ordered office 2010 as my computer (as with most) only came with a trial. While I had a decent free program I used for a while my school used word and it was hard for me to save my files in a format that was easily opened by my teachers so I had to get it.

I have heard that Apple give a $100.00 discount but I cant confirm this myself. I will be on the hunt for more deals that help us students and will update this post as I find them. If you know of any please share so we can help each other save!