Frugal Friday: Take Advantage Of Back To School Sales

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We’re excited to introduce a new Frugal Friday Column contributed by Susanne of The Hillbilly Housewife.

Back to school sales save us a lot of money on products that we use all year long. With a little planning, you can save money, too.

If you’ve been taking a look at any sales flyer from the various office supply and the large discount stores, you know that now is the time to get great deals on all those back to school items.  Some stores offer buy one get two or more free, others lure you in with office supplies for a penny.

Here are some items that we stock up on.

1. Arts and Crafts: My daughter loves to paint, color and make little story books out of various notebooks or sheets of paper stapled together. We also stock up on crafting supplies like crayons, construction paper and glue.

2. Household Organization: I keep several notebooks around to makelists, weekly menus and just to jot down things I need to remember. I also keep a large three ring binder with various inserts as my household or homemaking book.

3. Storage and Organization: I also like to pick up a few extra sandwich boxes this time of the year. You can usually find them right next to the lunch boxes. They are small plastic containers that are perfect forholding small office supplies and also make great marker and crayon boxes for the kids.

4. Office Supplies: (printer paper, fax, pens, staples, etc.) You can get deals on anything from notebooks to pens, markers and binders.

Add all that up and throughout the year we use up quite a bit of school and office supplies.

Take a look at some of those ads and think about what you could actually use throughout the year. Then stock up on them now. The notebooks that will usually cost you a dollar or more are yours for 10 cents this time of the year.

Set aside a cabinet, a drawer or a storage bin to store all these extra supplies until you need them.

Susanne Meyers shares frugal living and budgeting articles at  The Hillbilly Housewife and on her blog.  She is also author of the Hillbilly Housewife’s Spring Cleaning Guide.  Grab your copy today at http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/ebooks/springcleaning.htm

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Written by Tracy · Filed Under Frugal Living