How to Buy School Supplies Cheap

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Buy school supplies cheap. Save money and cut costs on school supplies by checking with each child to find out what supplies they already have. Check this against the school list of what they need. Budget and save money if you have to buy more than one child school supplies. They might be able to share some of the pencils, books, crayons and writing pads.

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school supplies (depending on school)

Step 1

Have your child or children check out the supplies that they already have. Save money and buy school supplies cheap by not buying a new school supplies. No one says that they have to use a brand new notebook, if they have only written in a few pages of the old book. Just tear out the written pages, clean out the spirals and use this one. Check out the other notebooks of previous years.
Step 2

Read the advertisements in the newspapers and make note of which store having a sale on the school supplies your child needs. Buy school supplies cheap by buying them where they are on sale. If there is a significant saving for crayons and pencils at one store, and are offering one notebook free if you buy two, then do your school shopping at each store, especially if you have to buy school supplies for more than one child.
Step 3

Save money on school notebooks and buy school supplies cheap by buying notebooks the books that have only a solid color cover. Stay away from the fancy ones, the ones that have their favorite band or singer on the cover. The cover is usually pulled back when they write and the decorated school books cost much more when they are designed.
Step 4

Shop for the school supplies around Labor Day. Supplies are cheap at this time. Most major drug stores and outlets have great sales for notepaper, notebooks, pencils and crayons around that time. The Dollar stores are a great place to buy their backpacks cheap if they use them. Try not to use your credit cards to pay for the school supplies unless you know you can pay the charge bill at the end of the month.

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grimsleygl said

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on 8/21/2009 This is such a timely article! Just yesterday someone called the church where I work and asked if we could help on school supplies for their 7 children. Oh my, this could get very expensive for sure! Thank you for the well written article and reminders on how to save by being frugle in what we buy and where we purchase what we buy. 5*'s