Mandylubug Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 I know summer has just started but I am low on some spiral notebooks and I refuse to pay high dollar. Plus, I like to stock up. Any sales advertised yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Not yet. I ran out of tab dividers for my kids binders. Target usually start back to school sale right after the 4th of July seasonal sale. OfficeMax, Staples and Walmart will start around that time too. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieB Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 No sales here... schools are still in session for two more weeks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandylubug Posted June 5, 2015 Author Share Posted June 5, 2015 guess I will go browse Office Depot and pay too much. We start our new school year on Monday. We school year round and just had our two week break. I should have planned our start more into July.. That would have made more sense to match the sales :p 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Just get enough to get by for a month or so, they will be coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athomeontheprairie Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Quill.com has back to school supplies listed on their website. Not crazy great deals, but some items aren't bad...and they sell better binders, a big deal, if like me there isn't a staples for 4 hours) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Schools don't get out until June 25th here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 I thought school supplies went on sale here in GA around the end of June. IIRC that's about when Walmart started stocking even though most people didn't start buying until mid-July. I always buy as soon as I can so I can be sure to get all the spiral notebooks and composition books I want. One year I waited a bit long and couldn't find any cheapo spirals with college ruled pages. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OH_Homeschooler Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Can you look at the Dollar Store? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 If you have Essex Bargain Hunt, they've started to put out last year's surplus. They have .05 spirals and folders with out of date Disney stars and losing sports teams on them :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umsami Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 We are in Florida, and usually will start to see stuff in July. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 School has another 1-2 weeks here. Like others, we see sales start after the July 4th circular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandylubug Posted June 5, 2015 Author Share Posted June 5, 2015 I'm in GA. School has been out for 2 weeks and goes back the first week of August. I bet Target has already started setting up their back to school section. Just no official sales yet. I will have have to go mosey around and see what I can find unadvertised. I don't need too terribly much for now. I can wait on most things until the sales hit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandylubug Posted June 5, 2015 Author Share Posted June 5, 2015 Any one ever ducttape cover their cheapy spirals to keep them from snagging? We love spirals but we had some tangling issues this past school year. eta: if I do that, though, I can't fold it under itself can I? My kids, especially my lefty, don't use them fully open but flip them open and only use the side they are writing on at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Hm..never had a tangle issue and that's all I use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandylubug Posted June 5, 2015 Author Share Posted June 5, 2015 Hm..never had a tangle issue and that's all I use. Kids can find some creative ways to waste my time. Lol. They have about 5 each stacked on their shelf. They some how manage to get them tangled together and then pull them hard. Next thing I know I'm being snagged by the wire or they are being poked or my table is being scratched. Really, they have special skills at procrastinating. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitten18 Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Any one ever ducttape cover their cheapy spirals to keep them from snagging? We love spirals but we had some tangling issues this past school year. eta: if I do that, though, I can't fold it under itself can I? My kids, especially my lefty, don't use them fully open but flip them open and only use the side they are writing on at the time. Maybe just a tiny bit of duct tape on the very ends that are snagging? I was thinking a drop of hot glue on the ends but I don't think that would stay on for long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milovany Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Have 'em alternate the spirals -- one this way, the next one that, etc. Just a thought as I'm thinking about going the spiral route next year. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Perhaps if they're standing upright they'll snag less? Mine tend to just use one at a time--they prefer composition books for most subjects--so we don't have them stacked. I'm thinking something like this to keep them standing and apart: [photos edited out] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandylubug Posted June 5, 2015 Author Share Posted June 5, 2015 Perhaps if they're standing upright they'll snag less? Mine tend to just use one at a time--they prefer composition books for most subjects--so we don't have them stacked. I'm thinking something like this to keep them standing and apart: I really love that idea. We don't have that kind of space to do for four kiddos, though. We homeschool in our dining/kitchen area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Kids can find some creative ways to waste my time. Lol. They have about 5 each stacked on their shelf. They some how manage to get them tangled together and then pull them hard. Next thing I know I'm being snagged by the wire or they are being poked or my table is being scratched. Really, they have special skills at procrastinating. Haha yes true. Our issues usually revolve around missing pencils or erasers. I have 500,000 of both. Still there manages to be times when we can't find any of them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandylubug Posted June 7, 2015 Author Share Posted June 7, 2015 Well, I searched Office Depot, Dollar Tree and Target for school supplies. No good deals to be had currently. I am thankful I didn't buy from OD, though. They wanted 8 bucks for a large steno pad. I found them for 2.15 at Target. I use these for my lefty writer. Target by far had the best selection of affordable notebooks. Dollar Tree has just regular office supplies out currently and their back to school abundance has not hit the stores yet. Anyway, I spent $25 with just enough to start out our school year with some fun new notebooks but I will buy my bulk of supplies in about a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 They have about 5 each stacked on their shelf. They some how manage to get them tangled together and then pull them hard. My boys took out the spiral halfway by fidgiting with the spiral. If you don't need to keep the notebooks intact, you can just tear out the paper and put into a three hole binder for each child. My boys use mainly filler paper for their work and when that stockpile (from years ago at 20 cents per stack) finally ran out, we just tear off the paper from our stockpile of spiral notebooks which were 25 cents each when we bought from Staples. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.