My Sweet DH...

[medawyn]

... found a great deal on paper and bought “tons; it’ll last us forever!”

Three reams 😂 He clearly doesn’t run the home office/school supply closet.

[Junie]

So funny!

Send him back for three cases while the paper is still on sale.

[medawyn]

17 minutes ago, Junie said:

So funny!

Send him back for three cases while the paper is still on sale.

At least!

[Tenaj]

That is funny!  I used to run a tax preparation business but now only have about 10 returns that I do.  I realized today that I ran through an entire ream just this week getting these few tax returns done, copies made and files put together.  I can't imagine how much I used to go through and I still buy paper by the case just because of homeschooling.

[BakersDozen]

I'm waiting for my dh to find out I ordered 30 (more) reams today because he would definitely think 3 reams is sufficient even after all these years and copies. Good thing he leaves the shopping/ordering up to me! 3 reams...that is funny.

[Spy Car]

Man...I thought I was heroic when I ordered 2 reams during a recent super sale.

At three reams, I'd have felt like a spendthrift 

Bill (not my department)

[medawyn]

24 minutes ago, CuriousMomof3 said:

I'm gathering from this that I'm the only one whose homeschool is basically paperless?  Really, there's no one else?

My kids are so young - the oldest is only 2nd grade.  Screens just don’t work.

[wendyroo]

20 minutes ago, CuriousMomof3 said:

I didn't mean like people should or shouldn't use paper.  I swear I'm not preaching it.  I'm just sometimes surprised that I'm the only one who uses very little.  One of my kids has a math workbook, and we read some paper books, but other than that, I think we started the lockdown with 1/2 a ream, and have a fair amount left.  

Clearly, I'm the outlier here.

Yeah, no.  🤣

It seems my kids go through half a ream a week just drawing superheroes and dragons...well, and the 4 year old needs to paint endless grey/brown blobby "rainbows".

All told, we go through just under a ream a week.

[JustEm]

4 hours ago, CuriousMomof3 said:

I'm gathering from this that I'm the only one whose homeschool is basically paperless?  Really, there's no one else?

 

Each kid uses a few notebooks and such but we do almost zero printing so 3 reams would last us a year or so.  And the only reason we would run out is if the kids started using it for drawing and art projects instead of scrap paper

[ktgrok]

4 hours ago, CuriousMomof3 said:

I didn't mean like people should or shouldn't use paper.  I swear I'm not preaching it.  I'm just sometimes surprised that I'm the only one who uses very little.  One of my kids has a math workbook, and we read some paper books, but other than that, I think we started the lockdown with 1/2 a ream, and have a fair amount left.  

Clearly, I'm the outlier here.

I print their math workbooks myself, plus phonics pages for DS, plus handwriting pages for him, plus our unit study pages. 

But most of it goes to drawing. No matter how many other types of paper I buy, they prefer to draw and color on printer paper. And use a LOT of it. 

3 hours ago, wendyroo said:

Yeah, no.  🤣

It seems my kids go through half a ream a week just drawing superheroes and dragons...well, and the 4 year old needs to paint endless grey/brown blobby "rainbows".

All told, we go through just under a ream a week.

Yup.