Here is my supply list for the 2010-11 school year.
- Backpack
- 2nd backpack (to be used if the first one breaks)
- 1 package (12 or 18 count) Crayola twistables colored pencils
- 4 plastic pocket folders (horizontal pockets)
- White eraser
- 8 college-ruled spiral notebooks
- 1 or 2 packs mechanical pencils
- Planner
- Emergency pack
- Pencil pouch
- Hand sanitizer
- 2 or 3 packs wide ruled notebook paper
- Reusable plastic bowl, cup, fork, knife, spoon
- Helmet (required for bike riding)
- Stickers for planner
Here is what I've bought so far and the price for each item:
- Backpack ($14.22)
- Reusable plastic bowl and cup ($4.91)
- Planner ($10.92)
- Helmet ($10.94)
- First aid kit to go in emergency pack ($1.96)
- Stickers ($2.17)
Total price tag so far: $45.12
I'm hoping to get everything for $120 or under. Shouldn't be too hard. The back-to-school sales will start to kick in after July 4, and I will go get the rest of the supplies on this list. Then I'll give an update on the actual cost of my supplies.
What about you? How much do you usually spend on school supplies (students or parents shopping for their kids)? What's your budget for this coming school year? Do you buy your supplies at a certain time?
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i have one piece of advice when it comes to the mechanical pencil. Skip the disposable ones and buy a good quality re-fallible one. It will save you money. I think I spend $5 on mine and it was on sale. I have had the same one for about 7 years, and I use it a lot. Plus if you buy a quality one then your lead will also last longer because it won't snap off inside the pencil.
I am a bit of a pen/marker/crayon/paper/sticker funky stationary addict.. I have a drawer full of the stuff... but i am always using it too.
I spend about $1000 each semester because I'm no longer enrolled in the public education system. :( Oh, that's just for books and tuition. I spend around $5 for notebooks. Everything else I just keep reusing.
I reuse almost everything, so the only thing I need to buy for the new year is usually just some cheap notebooks and binder paper. My school usually gives us homework planners. It looks like I'm going to have to buy a new mechanical pencil though.
Some of those items seem silly to me. Two backpacks? Why? If you take care of the first one, you'll never need that second one. And why mechanical pencils, when there's the regular kind? And why do they have to be Crayola brand colored pencils?
If this is a list you came up with yourself, that's one thing. But if teachers out there are actually insisting on micro-managing students' supplies that is stupid.
Just one more reason to homeschool.
why are you thinking about school already? ewwwww!!!
and since i'm a college kid, my books cost around $400 per semester. Tuition = $35,000. Fun times...
@landers_mommy0520 - This is a list that I came up with for myself, not one from my school.
@hippiechristian73102@xanga - Oh, well then I guess it's a little more reasonable if you decided for yourself that you should buy these things. I have heard of teachers being ever more picky about what kids bring to class, though, down to what brand of crayons they use!
The lists they give at our schools are reallllly specific. No
mechanical pencils, no gel pens, no trapper keepers, no bookbags with
wheels, Only notebooks with perforated edges.
Then they get into
the crazy shit that I know they need but don't want to buy, like gallon
bags and hand sanitizer and play-doh and tennis balls for the bottoms
of the chairs.
My school supplies hit about 100 dollars a semester, books about 600 dollars a semester, and my tuition is 13,000 dollars a semester. Good times, gotta love scholarships and financial aide.
@SeeBeeWrite@xanga - No bookbags with wheels? I would have died my one year in public school without my wheelie bag.
@SeeBeeWrite@xanga -
I can understand the "no backpacks with wheels" thing. I have helped in a 2nd grade classroom and would often notice the cubby holes where the kids keep their personal stuff were not big enough for the kids' coats and lunches, let alone backpacks and wheelie backpacks take up more space than traditional backpacks.
Where I used to live, the backpacks had to be clear.
Toward the end of my senior year of high school, after my messenger bag broke, I bought a $10 backpack from Walmart. I used it all the way through college and grad school. I'm now 24 and it still works perfectly, meaning I have now used it for 7 years; I use it to pack things in every once in awhile, like clothes when camping. I don't htink I would ever buy a "backup" backpack, because I try to make mine last.
There is always have fun to collect or buy the things for children,as kids are much excited when they are specially shopping their supplies and I love to see the sparkle in there eyes due to this,and i always want to see this in there eyes,
usually i shop there kids supplies,according to the pattern followed in schools as if there is summer vocations,then i will go for more color and such kind of things and if there is regular school days,then i will go for the regular things used in the schools.
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