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Buy a Year's Worth of School Supplies in the Fall

We buy a years worth of school supplies once a year. Every year the stores such as Walmart, Target others put the school supplies on sale. Such as a box of crayons for .22cents. Most families wait for the schools list to come out. It is the same supplies year after year. Pencils, markers, loose leaf paper, glues sticks so on. We have a huge tote that we keep with the supplies in them so as they need them we have them. Such as the lovely teenager tells you at 8:30pm that they need a new composition note book for school in the morning. We have them in the tote that we bought on sale for .50 cents verses $3.00 at 8:30pm at night or any other time of the day.

What we spend on school supplies in July/ August for the upcoming school year is less than what most families spend just to start up the school year. We buy more than enough supplies to last the full year. The way to buy is if you your school goes by quarter or trimesters. is the amount you buy. Most supplies need to be replenished at the beginning of each new quarter. We always have the supplies so it saves the family another $100.00 to replenish supplies. We spend about $150.00 in July/August. It saves our family about $400.00 a years in supplies..

By Jessica from Coventry, RI

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