So this year I am working on the "cheap teacher on a budget" idea during my shopping. Two particular stores are definitely my friend lately.
First off is Staples. I have known in the past that Staples did 1 cent sales but never really paid much attention to it. Last week a friend told me that teachers aren't limited to 2 items, they can get up to 25, provided you spend a minimum of $5 on other things. Well sign me up!!!
This is a picture of last week's deals. I had trouble finding everything in stock so I ended up getting:
- 19 bottles of glue
- 8 pkgs of pencil top erasers
- 2 pkgs of Post-It flags
- 1 hole punch
- 2 packages of 5-count Sharpies
- A cube with 300 sticky notes
My total price was $6.34!!
Here are today's buys. I got there just a few minutes after the store opened so everything was in stock. I bought:
- 25 pkgs of index cards
- 25 pkgs of Sharpie highlighters
- 25 pkgs of 8-count pencils
- 2 notebooks, with plastic covers (in really great colors!)
- 2 pkgs of Pen-tel pens
- 1 pkg of mechanical pencils
- 2 pkgs of Avery tabbed dividers
My total price was $6.31. I figured out the regular price of everything and the total, with tax, would have been $113.30. I saved $106.99!!!!
And the best part about today's trip to Staples was the awesome manager, Kris G., who helped me find what I needed and was so sweet and glad to be helping out teachers.
My other favorite store is ROSS Dress For Less, usually for clothes and shoes, but this week I have scored some activities for my class. Like I said, many of my things had to stay behind so I was looking to add to my collection of games/activities. Yesterday I found these at ROSS:
I got 5 games for $4.99 each and normally they are between $12 and $20. I also got a math dry-erase activity for $6.99, regular priced $9.95 and a floor puzzle for $5.99.
I've also been stocking up on things to decorate my room, as well as functional items, but I'll leave that for another day . . .
