for all those years that I cost you an ungodly amount of money on school supplies. I went shopping for the few things I needed today and got everything for under $10. If I'm paying, I'm buying everything as cheap as possible. Sidenote: Don't even attempt to go shopping the weekend before kids go back to school. It's absolute chaos.
I hear ya, Below. Back when I was at school and my Mam paid for my supplies, I needed the best of the best. I had a Spice Girls lunchbox.
I remember wanting the heavy-duty $9.99 binders every year. I paid $1.25 for a binder today. Wasn't willing to go any higher.
Everyone knows you buy your school supplies right after the 4th of July. But I haven't had to buy those for years. I had an Invader Zim lunchbox during my dark and edgy phase that lasted until I graduated college.
I ****ing love school supply shopping. It is my favorite time of the year. And it's not just the shopping aspect, I love arranging it all pretty in my backpack and the lovely feeling of writing in a fresh notebook, of slipping papers into a new folder, of buying enough highlighters to color code what you're highlighting by interest, significance to plot, striking diction/syntax, can you tell I'm an English major, or just a good quote. I was always poor growing up so I never could afford the nice, high quality items (heavy duty binders, nice pens, etc.). Most of what I got were hand-me-downs from my sisters or cheapo packs of pens that I'd be splitting with my sisters (who prefer black ink whereas I use exclusively blue, so it was very upsetting). I'm definitely budget conscious just out of how I was raised and the fact that I've been paying out of my own pocket for supplies ever since I got a job (so since 10th grade), but I'm really good about hunting for deals and such. I also try to keep whatever I use nice (like folders and pens) so that I can reuse them next semester.
You are messed up in some serious mental way. I say this in the kindest and most sympathetic way I know how.
Go for the Up & Up brand at Target, it's cheaper than most other things. Also, I know what you mean by chaos, since pretty much all of last week I was working in the Seasonal area of Target, and even 1 or 2 days after school started people were still coming in droves for supplies, since the teachers gave them their supply list late
Big Lots was my best friend this year. I bought everything I needed for college this year for $60, except for like ten items.. which I ended up having to buy from Walmart for about $90, but whatever. >: I spent $150 compared to the $340 I spent last year? So yeah. I was pretty proud of myself for not spending that much again, but I also opted out of buying a lot of few things. Like, I didn't take my printer to school because I didn't want to spend $40 on ink, lol.
From the sound of it you bought more than be for the same price I got my stuff for. But than again, a lot of art stuff isn't cheap, especially when you buy in bulk packages....although you never quite get past that expensive part XD
ahaha i don't have to go school shopping this year suckers. i may have had a winnie the pooh lunch box in elementary school
This is what my school does. So I dont even know what I need until the best day of school and then I have to rush to the store and I hate shopping as is.
I don't think I've had a supply list since the sixth grade. After that teachers just kind of said "stay organized and take notes, you know what works for you." I don't really use binders for my classes for example, some people swear by them, but I'm happy with a notebook and a folder.
I have to tell me mum not to buy me school supplies. She asked me yesterday if I needed any more notebooks/folders but she awready bought me some the week before...AND SOME AT THE START OF SUMMER. Then there's the extra I have from last year... Folk don't hide underneath my bed cause there's currently stationary supplies amassing.
