Buy 12 glue stick, 45 crayons, 6 reames of paper

[snickerd3]

wow i checked out the school supply lists for here on my last visit to the store and they state brandnames of supplies...even so far as telling you the store to go to to get the watercolor paints for the kindergarten class.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

wow i checked out the school supply lists for here on my last visit to the store and they state brandnames of supplies...even so far as telling you the store to go to to get the watercolor paints for the kindergarten class.

Maybe they're doing that for folks who have no idea where to get the stuff. Personally, I think I'd hit the Kmart toy section. Wouldn't they have watercolor sets there?

 

[envirotex]

We managed to get out of Target with 2 of everything (one for school one for home) for about $60. I bought Elmer's glue, though. Who's ever heard of "Colorations" glue.

 

[snickerd3]

colorations is the goes on purple dries clear stuff if I rememeber correctly. I think it is also supposed to be the allergy friendly stuff much means more expensive.

 

[envirotex]

Elmer's makes the identical stuff...That's what we got.

 

[Road Guy]

A friend of mine who lives in a nicer part of town than me (East Cobb) said on "sneak a peak" (when yuo bring little johnny to find where his room is) the teachers had plastic bins and made / asked the parents to sort out everything into the bins for storage (the glue sticks, pencils, dry erase markers, etc)

what a fucking joke!!!!

 

[Master slacker]

I'd dump everything in a single bin. But that's just me... and I can be an ass at times.

 

[csb]

Our school had an open house and it was the exact thing with the bins. My husband laughed at me, because the first thing I threw in were our post-its. I had some free from a car dealership and tossed them in amonst the real post-it notes. At least if a note comes home with FORD on it, I know my supplies are being used!

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Are the schools still doing this?

 

[Ble_PE]

We had a pretty long list of things to buy for mini-ble1's preschool class... Baby wipes, coffee filters, tissues, crayons, markers, etc...

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

In the 7th grade, I was part of the yellow team. Meaning all my notebooks, etc. had to be yellow. My parents just bought whatever was cheapest, and wrote YELLOW on them in permanent ink.

 

[MA_PE]

In the 7th grade, I was part of the yellow team. Meaning all my notebooks, etc. had to be yellow. My parents just bought whatever was cheapest, and wrote YELLOW on them in permanent ink.

Brilliant!

 

[Capt Worley PE]

In the 7th grade, I was part of the yellow team. Meaning all my notebooks, etc. had to be yellow. My parents just bought whatever was cheapest, and wrote YELLOW on them in permanent ink.

Brilliant!

Concur!

 

[Road Guy]

I bet this year, even using a good supply of school supplies we buy from the clearance section every September, we were still in the $250 range for school supplies for three kids..

for middle school I think every class wants a 3" 3 ring binder.. tough to fit 5 of those in a bookbag.. And if you buy the cheap ones they never last and the good ones are $10 bucks or more, so 2 middle schoolers, 10 binders * $10 = $100 bucks..

the kids at the middle school bus stop look like basic training recruits on their first day with all their gear in 2 duffle backs...

 

[Supe]

Got away pretty light with Jr's kindergarten class. I don't think I spent $25 on the lot of it.

 

[maryannette]

College books are very expensive.

 

[envirotex]

$60 for middle school pre-ordered supplies...all prebundled, delivered to Mini-Tex in class yesterday.

still waiting to hear on the high school supply list for Tex Jr.

 

[MA_PE]

College books are very expensive.

Not to mention the "supplies" required for the off-campus housing.

 

[csb]

We walked away spending about $25 this year, thanks to stalking Office Depot for their sales. I changed up and bought good pencils this year, after witnessing our teacher last year having to throw away cheap pencils that won't sharpen. My kid got to keep his crayons, pencil box, eraser...mostly only pencils, tissues and ziplocs (for weed) went in the everybody pile.

I'm still in favor of just giving the teacher $20 at the beginning and she buys what she really needs. We have a brand new teacher and she is asking for books, because she hasn't had a change to build a library.

 

[snickerd3]

I know this is an old thread, but this august will be the first time I will have to buy this shit. I wonder what the list is going to look like.