Happy Back to School Season!

I believe this and Christmas are my favorite times of the year.  I love getting my blessings organized for the school year.  I know, you don't have to say it "WEIRDO!"  Those that know me well, know that I have always been this way. Organized for life ◕‿◕ Well, whatever to you because mine will be the best organized blessings in the schools ◕‿◕ 


Anyway, I have been finished for a while now buying school supplies because finding the best deal is the fun part for me.  I love getting the cute stuff, name brand stuff, state-of-the-art stuff all at a great price.  I know that some people haven't even had a moment to start thinking about school supplies, let alone shopping for them.


Since you may not have started yet, I have a few tips and some great sites to share with you.

• Your Retail Helper blog has a posting about the Tax Free weekends listed by state.  I always forget when this weekend occurs each year.  Some times I am just too excited to wait, HA!
• My Dallas Mommy blog has a posting about the best deals.  It is a great list of all the different supplies out there, and the best place to buy that item like crayons.

Speaking of crayons.  I noticed on my 2nd blessings supply list that her school wants only name brand supplies.  I remember this from my oldest blessing's supply list, but elementary was a long time ago.  I vividly remember now buying her the best supplies, and then all of those supplies going into the general bin in the classroom.  Then, my blessing would always get someone's off brand supplies to use for her assignments, and they would always break or something like that.  I am getting perturbed about it all over again while writing this, so here are my solutions:

• Buy more supplies than you need.  The list doesn't say that those supplies are the maximum.  They only show a minimum.  I buy a few extra 25 cents crayons, and send them all to the school.  That way the teacher can hopefully put out all the best quality supplies for our blessings to use each day.
• Make sure you are buying name brand.  Now, I know this can be a bit pricey, but if you use the links above, you should be fine.  The school specifically asked for name brand because of the poor quality of the other brands.  I have bought off brand in the past, and I end up having to buy double of those instead of buying one set of the name brand.  Where is the saving in that?
• Check for the word WASHABLE.  So, the other thing that I noticed about the school supply list is that it said WASHABLE.  Notice that the WASHABLE crayons, markers, and pencils are not the cheap ones.  They cost almost double the regular supplies.  Read the box, the non-washable ones are harder to get out of clothes and off fingers.  We found that out on Saturday.  It took until Monday for the colors to come off without SCRUBBING MY BLESSINGS TO DEATH ◕‿◕

Happy Back to School Season!

Techie Mommie!