It's begining to look a lot like Christmas!

First off let me say that I am not a representative of Staples nor am I affiliated with them in anyway. In June I was proctoring a math regents (yes, I teach K but in the summer our PreK-12 school has all the teachers helping proctoring regents, it's not like I can do 9th grade trig any more anyway).  My dear friend Chris comes in to relieve me of my duties and says "You will not believe this.  Staples has a catalogue where EVERYGHING is a penny for requisition's."  I'm in total disbelief.  What's the catch.  You would have though the elementary teachers had won the lottery, it's all we talked about for 2 days!  I kept saying "You get a shredder, you get a shredder everyone gets a SHREDDER!" in my best Oprah voice (it was pretty uncanny, plus the shredders were like $900 and we got them for a penny, I ordered 3).  What's the catch?  This can't be true.   No we couldn't put our own money it to order and everything must stay at school.  So we ordered.  I got $3,361 worth of stuff for less than 10 bucks. Then we didn't hold our breath. 

 

 Last week the trucks started to arrive and yesterday the 2nd truck dropped of 8 pallets of supplies.  OH HAPPY DAY!  It's like Christmas, the boxes keep coming and they are all full of wondrous things.  I'm clapping and laughing and jumping from box to box and room to room to see what everyone else ordered.  Now our rooms look like an office supply store  but it don't care.  There were definitely some things we screwed up with.  Like most of our students we should have read more carefully.     

 

Each box of pens and markers in this box we got for a penny!  According to my order one of the boxes of pens I ordered should retail for $15! 

One of my favorite mistakes.  Each brown box of tape holds 6 boxes of Scotch tape, and in each of those boxes of Scotch Tape there are 6 rolls of tape.  So each box holds about 36 rolls of tape. One brown box cost 1 penny!

Ziplock bags?  There are 5,000 in 1 box!

Writeable CD's, cleaning supplies and clip boards, on and badges!

This is my biggest OOPS so far.  5 giant rolls of foam......what the heck am I going to do with this?  I thought it was bubble wrap. 

I can't pretend to understand the deal that Staples made, with either the state or our BOCES district but I do know that I am grateful.  I shall never have to buy staplers, post-its, highlighters, packing tape, clipboards, staples or scissors for many years. 

 

PS.  The grapevines says that we can't have our shredders in our room because the students may be putting their hands in them or getting their hair caught in them.