Author: Green Talk
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Some call me frugal. Others would call me cheap. I prefer the term practical and thrifty. Take for example buying school supplies. I can’t conceive of buying all brand new school supplies when my cabinets could double as my own Staples stores. Ever time you go to buy supplies, they come in packages. If your child needs only one or two of a certain item, what do you do with the rest? You store it somewhere.
How many of you have on your child’s list, a 200 page composition or spiral notebook? Think back to the end of the year. Did your child remotely finish that book or notebook? From my experience, perhaps my kids have finished 1/2 or a 1/3rd of the book. Generally, they are always in good shape with a little bent corner here and there.
So I ask all of you, why do you have to buy brand news ones when your old ones still have some life to them? But you ask, what about all the pages with writing on them? I rip out the used pages, and recycle the pages. I then clean up the raw edges,…
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