Detroit Moms Like Me chat about school supplies
The Detroit Moms Like Me forum has a very busy thread this week on the school and classroom supply lists. If you want to see some ranting about the “modern” school supply lists, and chattering about when southeast Michigan schools provided basic stuff for students, go there. But if you want to figure out how [...]
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From Monroe on a Budget.
Nevaeh’s Back to School event Aug. 15
This post is for my readers in and near Monroe, Mich. The Justice for Nevaeh association will host Nevaeh’s Back to School Safety Event from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday Aug. 15 at Riverside Early Learning Center, 77 N. Roessler St., Monroe, Mich. There will be free back to school supplies for school-age children, along [...]
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Frugal Back to School: Grade School
“Get to know your school. Become familiar with classroom locations, office, library, cafeteria, and playground.” – Student handbook 2009-10, Ida Elementary School, Ida, Mich. The financial details at the grade school level that go beyond clothes, school supplies and lunches are easy to predict – whether the building is K-5, K-6 or pre K-8. The [...]
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From Monroe on a Budget.
Frugal Back to School: Grade School
“Get to know your school. Become familiar with classroom locations, office, library, cafeteria, and playground.” – Student handbook 2009-10, Ida Elementary School, Ida, Mich. The financial details at the grade school level that go beyond clothes, school supplies and lunches are easy to predict – whether the building is K-5, K-6 or pre K-8. The [...]
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Back to school art supplies at Hobby Lobby
My sales and deals are for the Monroe, Mich., area: Hobby Lobby has an ad on page 3C of today’s edition of The Monroe Evening News listing back to school art supplies at 30 percent off. There’s also a 40 percent off coupon in the ad today. Go to my Frugal Back to School series [...]
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Back to school art supplies at Hobby Lobby
My sales and deals are for the Monroe, Mich., area: Hobby Lobby has an ad on page 3C of today’s edition of The Monroe Evening News listing back to school art supplies at 30 percent off. There’s also a 40 percent off coupon in the ad today. Go to my Frugal Back to School series [...]
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Frugal Back to School: School supplies
“Although not mandatory, the following supplies would be appreciated.” – school supply list for 2010-11 academic year, Whiteford Elementary School, Ottawa Lake, Mich. If there is one thing that annoys parents most about back-to-school, it’s back-to-school shopping. Michigan parents in particularly are annoyed at the timing of the retail sales. Most schools in Michigan do [...]
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Frugal Back to School: School supplies
“Although not mandatory, the following supplies would be appreciated.” – school supply list for 2010-11 academic year, Whiteford Elementary School, Ottawa Lake, Mich. If there is one thing that annoys parents most about back-to-school, it’s back-to-school shopping. Michigan parents in particularly are annoyed at the timing of the retail sales. Most schools in Michigan do [...]
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Practical Money’s Stretch your back-to-school budget
Jason Alderman at Practical Money Skills has an article called Stretch your back-to-school budget that’s worth a read. I like this tip: Ask the school which supplies they expect parents to purchase. Go in with other families to take advantage of volume discounts and sales. The Frugal Back to School series at Monroe on a [...]
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Weekend Wonders Stockpiles the School Supplies
Sometimes you find a great bargain at your local department store! I love when I get new things at yard sale prices. This past weekend, I was at Wal-Mart getting a few odd and ends when I ran across this:
I bought a few of these last year around this same time. Evidently, they did not sell them all then, so they put the remainder of what they had out this time and marked them down extremely low!
I got each of these binders for .50 each and the packet of dividers were only .10 each! My daughter and I both are using these for school things. Hers are to hold papers and mine are for my household binder I am making with the neat printable forms I share in each Digest.
This is one of the best deals I have found! I sure hope they keep up bringing out things like this at Wal-Mart.
What about you? Do you stock pile school supplies when you find them this cheap?
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