Sorting Supplies

Every year around this time we have ended up taking the girls shopping for their school supplies.  And every year we would buy everything off the respective “approved supply list” that the school provides as well as getting a few extras for later in the year (notebooks, binders, erasers, etc...) because inevitably someone would run out and would always need more of something.  However, in doing so we have accumulated a large storage bin of school supplies in the basement.  So before we went this year, we decided to actually go thru the bin and sort what was in there and figure out what could be used so we knew what Alison actually needed and what she didn’t (and what Sarah could take with her to college).  WOW!  There was A LOT of stuff.

Unfortunately, a lot of what we had the girls wouldn’t (or won’t) use anymore.  Things like plastic pencil boxes, wooden #2 pencils, wide ruled loose leaf paper, and fabric book covers.  So we ended up making a couple of piles, things to donate to backpack supply drives, and things to keep.  We had much more in the donate pile, for sure.  The good thing is that at least it won’t go to waste if we donate it to a school supply drive.  Or we may donate some things to a couple of friends who are teachers.  They can always use supplies for the classroom.