Back to School Wishlist & Sales

    I have decided to come up with a list of things I know I will need to buy before school starts back.  There are so many back to school sales going on that it is easy for me to say "Oh, that is only 25 cents, I better buy 10!" That is why I need to stick to a list! The list of things I need is based on things I already have left over from last year.  I have hundreds of folders now, so even if they are super cheap, I don't need to buy anymore.

My Back to School Wishlist

• Pencils
• Crayons
• Tape
• Highlighters
• 2 staplers (both of mine broke last year)
• Hand held pencil sharpeners
• Composition notebooks
• Cereal boxes for book bins
• Printed duct tape (many rolls)
• Plastic baskets to store books by genre (I'd love suggestions for where to get these the cheapest)

     Now of course our school give us a little bit of money to purchase supplies for our classroom, but I like to use that money for bigger items.  So now for the list of deals that I would actually buy IF I were able to go shopping next week.  I'm hoping my sweet mother will read this and get some of these things for me while she is in town next week. Love you mom!

Office Max has the best deals again this week with:

• 1 cent wooden pencils - limit 20
• Sharpie Ancent Yellow Highlighters 4pk - $1
• Paperpro Evo Stapler $4
• Buy 2 get 1 free, scotch duct tape

They also have 10 cent hand sanitizer, 25 cent glue stick and pens and 15 cent notebooks and folders but I already have plenty of those items from last year.

Office Depot has a few items this week such as:

• 2-Hole Manual Pencil Sharpeners - 25 cents

• Filler notebook paper - 25 cents

• Scotch® Color Masking Tape - $2

     

    Office Depot also will have a folding file cart with lid on sale for $15, regular $23.99.  This saved me so much last year when I wanted to carry home my students reading response notebooks. If you don't have a rolling cart yet, this a great deal!

   Staples doesn't have many great deals this week so I'm not listing anything from them.  I'm sure the ads will continue to pick up later in the month.

     In other news tomorrow morning I leave for Belize with 40 others from my church.  We are going to be working on several different projects including construction, food ministries, sports recreation and vacation bible school.  I have never been out of the country so I am very excited about this opportunity.  I have spent a lot of time in prayer for this trip and hope that we can all be the hands and feet of Christ.   While I'm gone I won't be able to make any new blog posts but I will be taking lots of pictures to share when I get back.  I hope you all have a wonderful week and please pray for my church and I while we are away.

 

Shopping for deals Sunday

Back to school sales started today at most office supply stores.  I didn't really see much I liked in the Office Depot ad so I just stuck with Office Max and Target.  I may go to Staples tomorrow, but there wasn't too much I found intriguing there either.  I'm hoping the ads will get better as it gets closer for school to start.  My Office Max trip went great. I brought my mom with me so I could get double the limit.  The total for everything in the picture below was $12.16!  Also, just as a warning the guy at Office Max was trying to say that their had been a misprint in the sales ad, and now there was a limit of 2 for the glue bottles.  He still allowed me to get 10 since my sales ad said limit 10, but I don't know if all stores will be as kind.

20 bottles of glue, 20 file folders, 10 composition notebooks, 4 pairs of scissors, paper mate led pencil starter kit,  12 pk of fine point sharpies, 4 pk of gluesticks and 4 pk of expo markers.

     My next stop was to the dollar spot at Target.  They had several racks of items marked 70% off! Each item I bought below was only 30 cents!  I bought a couple of books for my non-fiction section and some awesome Let's Cook pads.  I plan on using the note pads as a fun way for my students to practice writing informational text/how-to's.

     My favorite find at Target were these little bookmarks.  They are in the shape of a digital camera and are magnifiers.  I thought these would be great bookmarks to keep by my classroom library for students to use.  I especially like them for EC students who may want to chunk smaller pieces of text to read. 

     After Target, I went to Michael's to buy some craft materials to use this week.  I will share that in another post though.  To end the shopping adventure I stopped at Moe's to get some dinner.  Nothing like a Joey Jr and some queso dip to end the day.

Good luck to everyone else on their back to school shopping adventures! I'm linking this post up to the "Show Us Your Stuff" linky party.  It is all about showing the piles of stuff you have bought or are making for your classroom.  Did I really need 20 more folders on top of all that I bought for my class last year? No, probably not but for 1 cent how could I not buy them!  I'm sure I would have many more piles of items if they weren't already at school.  Right now most of my piles are in lockers or boxes outside my classroom. Click the button below to join in the on the linky party and show us your piles of stuff!

Back to school Sales!

     It is that time of year when office supply stores start putting out great back to school sales.  I have rounded up some of the best deals starting this Sunday, 7/7/ through 7/13.  I'm only listing items that I think are worth buying, there are many other sales going on at each store.  I will post other ads as they become available!

All SCHOOLIO Paper Folders 1¢ Must purchase $5 first
OFFICEMAX® 4-oz. White Glue 1¢ Must purchase $5 first
1-Subject College- or WideRule Notebook, 70-Sheets 5 for $1
OFFICEMAX® Solid-Color Composition Book 50¢

SCHOOLIO 1" or 1.5" 3-Ring Poly Binder $1

AVERY Permanent Glue Sticks $1
SCHOOLIO 5" Blunt Scissors, 2-Pack or 7" Pointed Scissors $1
All PAPER MATE® Clearpoint™ Mechanical Pencil Starter Sets $1 with in-ad coupon
SHARPIE® Fine-Point Black Permanent Markers, 12-Pack $1 with in-ad coupon
All EXPO® Chisel-Tip Dry Erase Marker 4-Packs $1 with in-ad coupon
All SCOTCH® Expressions Tape Single Rolls $2
All OFFICEMAX® 3-Subject or Poly Assignment Notebooks $2

Mr. Sketch scented markers 12-pk - $3.99

Five Star Poly Clearview Folder - $1

Staples® cap erasers, 12/pack 1¢ each, with $5 minimum purchase
BIC® Round Stic® ballpoint pens, black, 8/packs - 1¢ each, with $5 minimum purchase
1Staples® ruled 3" x 5" white index cards, 100/pack 1¢ each, with $5 minimum purchase 

Avery® insertable dividers, 5 tab - 25¢

BIC Matic® Grip 0.7 mm assorted mechanical pencils, 6/pack - $1
Staples® glue sticks, .26 oz., 4/pack $1
Westcott® 9" recycled scissors $1
Westcott® 5" scissors, 2/pack $1

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