Saving on School Supplies
Nov 25th 2010greenbucksFamily Matters & Money Watch
I am all for saving a few bucks, and who isn’t? Here is how I save on school supplies:
With three kids in school, we need a lot of school supplies that they might need to “bring tomorrow” (thought bubble, why not give instructions earlier and have them bring these after the weekend). We have a “supply box” with short and long bond papers (we use size A4 for printing), pencils and erasers (some from freebies that comes with grocery items), short and long folders and envelopes, art and construction papers and illustration boards. A few boxes of crayons, extra scissors and sharpeners complete the supplies.
Since I attend media events, products launching and what-have-yous and sometimes I go home with some loot in paper bags, we also have a variety of custom presentation folders and paper bags in our supply box too.
Good thing that in their school, the children are asked to use used folders or the back of scratch papers for their school works. Nothing like teaching the children to help save mother Earth and her resources early on.
At the end of every school year, I gather all unused and used school supplies to see what else will find their way to the school bags for next school year.
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