That's right! School supplies are on sale!
(oh, how I love the smell of fresh notebook paper in the morning!)
I stopped by my local Walmart today to search out my children's school supply lists and I finally found them. Since I have three going to school this year I decided I needed to change my plan of attack when it came to buying school supplies.
In past years we've gone as a family, armed with two lists (one for me, one for my husband) and we have conquered shopping for scissors, pencils, and 3-prong folders in a sort of haphazard, though endearing schizophrenic way. Not this year. This year I created a table in Word with the express intent of making school supply shopping easier!
In my table I have these columns: "Supply" "Quantity" "Cost" "Child" "Purchased". The reason for the "Cost" and "Child" columns is to keep track of each item's cost, to do a calculation of the total later on; the "Child" column I created for easy distribution when it comes time to send the supplies to school. I think the "Supply" "Quantity" and "Purchased" are pretty self explanatory. :) It is fully customizable if you have Word and should be straight-forward and simple to use.
I feel like I am actually in front of the curve this year. Which is a nice feeling, since in past years I have felt far, far behind it...with no chance of ever catching up.
I hope you can get some use out of this table as well, and look forward to any comments you may have.
