School supplies?

[Annie]

I'm glad the list of school supplies for Ryan is relatively short (and we can use a few things from last year). It still looks like it will be a $40 hit or so (last year was about $60 if I remember right).

How much do you usually spend?

[MistyGirl]

for Jacob, I had to supply a backpack, gym shoes (that stay at school) and $20

for Lauren, I had to supply backpack, gym shoes, rest mat, sheet protectors and $20

for Matthew it was backpack, gym shoes and a relatively short list of supplies. I would say I spent less than $20 on his stuff.

[Sheri]

I will type the list later.
Brandon's is thankfully very short and he has the same teqcher again, so everything that had to be bought, we had.

I always have a stock of crayons (love a fresh crayon box) glue, pencils and notebooks.


Chase's preschool list is a smock, a change of clothes and that's it.

I am very lucky, I am afriad to see what you all neeed to get.

[fibersmith]

Grace's list was short too, I think I might have spent $15 all together. Scissors, crayons, 6 glue sticks, school glue, markers, pencils, red pencils, 3 boxes of tissues, and a bottle of hand sanitizer. The art smock, lunch box and back pack are the same ones she's had since preschool.

[Lollyellen]

I put down a $10 deposit at the end of the previous year, and then come the beginning of the schoolyear (at Meet The Teacher Night) I pay $28 and Sam's school supplies come pre-assembled and packed up and ready to go to his classroom.

There's quite a significant amount though - all kinds of manilla paper, regular paper, notebooks, spirals, pens/pencils/markers/crayons, scissors, etc. etc.

I think its totally worth the cost though, instead of going from store to store (who are usually out of certain things) chasing down all kinds of supplies.

[Ann]

I think I end up paying about $25 in school supplies for each of the boys. (That doesn't include backpacks, which we usually replace every third year.)

[Tammyk]

Well since neither one of them came home with supplies from last year, our bill was devastating. I was close to $150 not including shoes. :shock:

[Sheri]

Tammy= holy moly womn!
$150 - what do you have to buy the desk and chair too?
WTh-
I don't even want to post B's teeny list- his stuff was practially free.

I do wish there was a universal list or at least more time to know, so you can get the stuff on sale- but school sales are usually before our school starts- the storesare on your early start schedule not the slow east coast schedule.

[JenA]

We pay $30 for Austin. A cheque to the school, and the teacher gets to buy in bulk.

Next year (gr 4), we'll have to actually buy back-to-school stuff. Ack.