I Love Staples

For me, this is the best time of year. I am relaxing on summer break and using all this R&R time to be a super nerd about school stuff. This is also the time of year that Staples and Office Depot start advertising their infamous penny sales! I prefer Staples because they raise the limit on 1 cent items to 25 for teachers. Office Depot doesn't usually let teachers buy more than the advertised limit but I always ask anyway and sometimes I get lucky :).

Anywhoo, my Sunday routine consists of church, lunch out with my family and then straight to Staples to stock up on the penny items. Going on Sunday is a MUST. And the earlier the better. Supplies go fast (I guess because of people like me... oops). But it is seriously irresistible.

50 Sharpie Highlighters = 25 cents

200 Pencils = 25 cents

I also snagged a 4G jump drive for five dollars and a pack of pens for FREE. Index cards are also on sale for 1 cent but I only bought five packs but that didn't seem impressive enough for a photo, even if it only cost me a shiny nickel.

Dollar Tree Gets Me Again

I swore I was not going to stop at the Dollar Tree on the way home. I blame it on the 105 degree heat (seriously) and my car's broken AC (dead serious). But for some reason I wandered in 10 minutes before closing time and ended up with all of this:

• 4 mini magnadoodles
• spinners for probability and games
• sticky back velcro dots
• color masking tape
• sight words
• 4 storage bins that fold up and snap together
• Die cut letters

Yay Tarjay!

If you read my earlier post about using the Flip video camera in my classroom then I'm sure you can imagine how excited I was when I saw that they are on sale for $69 this week! Our school has one per grade level plus two extra for checkout.... but with a team of 8 teachers and a school with over 800 kids they are always in short supply. OR you finally get your hands on one and the batteries are dead. No bueno.

SOOOO I got my own! But it wasn't easy. The sale started today so you'd think I wouldn't have a problem... WRONG! I had to go to three different stores to get one! The first store I went to was sold out but told me two stores approx. 30 minutos away each had two in stock. By the time I got to the second store they had already sold both! Thankfully I made it to the last store just in time to snatch up the LAST ONE! Someone at the store mentioned that the company has stopped making them* so if you want one do it FAST!

*not sure on the validity of that claim....random people in Target do tend to be pretty intelligent in my past experience though :)