If you are lucky like the employees at my school district, you’ll get an extra $120 for supply money. You do get that as tax free, or something like that. They usually have use show receipts before we spend any other money. I already have Office Depot’s discount week in my calendar, and will do my shopping then, though I did buy a couple of packs of pens so I would have them for early start.
I also go to the Office Depot breakfast, they hand out some good stuff. Most of the office / school supply places have a breakfast and it usually pays. They usually give out something you can use. If not, maybe a friend or student can use and giving stuff to others generally pays off.
I’ve been a teacher for a while and the things I use the most are:
- Good pens
- Sharpies – I always get a big box with lots of colors and a small pack of just black. You want silver to write on black stuff too.
- A USB hard drive. This year’s is a Terabyte for just over $100.
I used to buy floppies, then went to CDs, but lets face it USB stuff is just easier.
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