Shopping for a long list of supplies needed for school while elbowing your way in and out through the crowd and standing in line for a mile just to pay what's inside your pushcart is an entirely negative idea that will make you lackadaisical.
As an earlier experience today, the downtown area in the city was fully packed with rush buyers. The throng of people in and outside the malls and stores literally has no room for any thread to fall.
I was dizzy and light headed as I try to get inside a department store intending to buy my own teacher supplies. Carrying along my second child Gab since he got a therapy session with his OT later this afternoon too.
To my dismay, I have to fall in line for a good eight or ten feet from the cashier just to pay for my two bundles of index card.
Good thing that the lady behind the cashier motion me to come over and give me the privilege to pay first perhaps understanding my plight of tagging along a kid.
With the onset of an incoming migraine, it dawn on me that it's surely time consuming, bone tiring and every bit impractical to do rush buying.
I have some practical ways and tips for school supply buyers that might be helpful and save them from this kind of dilemma.
- Never buy at all.
This is a bit imperative if I may put it for the reason that it is not at all necessary for you (students) to buy and make everything new for every new school year. Specially if school bags, uniform and shoes are still wearable.
2.Reduce, reuse and recycle.
Make use of these three noble R's. Reduce trash through making use of old notebooks that still have pages to write with, in this way you are reusing and recycling it too.
3.Save a cent through buying supplies earlier.
It's part of the consumer law that the higher the demand the higher the price is. Saving yourself from the hassle of rush buying at the same time saving a cent is not a bad idea at all.
If there's a need to buy new school supplies, I deemed it best to shop as early as the start of May while old stocks are usually on sale for a cleanup before new ones are displayed.
4.Repair, stitch and sew.
If old shoes, bags and uniforms are a bit old yet still usable, see to mend broken zippers, runned hems and crothes. Sew old shoes with gaping heels and soles. And never throw bags that are still good to carry books and other things.
5.Prepare ahead of time for the big day.
This explains the must "do's" that you have to prepare a day or two before your first day in school.
Please hang on for my next blog about How To Groom Your First Day in School.
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