Friday, August 21, 2009

New Office Depot 8/23 - 8/30 Circular with some good deals

I'm new to the Office Depot game, largely because I don't feel compelled to trek into Manhattan from Brooklyn to shop there.  That said, there are some great deals going on at Office Depot next week that might just get my lazy self on the train... especially if I can meet up with someone to have lunch or something.  

But for those of you lucky enough to live near an Office Depot--or those who will be near one this coming week--I wanted to share the highlights from this week's sales.

First off, 10-packs of #2 pencils are $0.10!  Awesome.  While it's not 10 or 12-packs for a penny (why hasn't Staples offered that yet this August?  Is the Office Max sale for real?), it's getting late enough in the season that this deal looks good.

Pencil cases (they look sort of cute) are also on sale for $0.10.  This is a better deal than the previously posted Staples pencil cases for $0.33, but it's hard to tell from the picture what the quality is.  Worth looking into, for sure.  

Wow!  Purell is on sale for $0.25 - well worth getting a whole bunch!  I go through this stuff like crazy with my young students.  These look like travel size bottles in the picture, which is not as big a savings as if they were bigger, but travel Purell still retails at around $0.99 - $1.29, so this is still somewhere in the ballpark of 75-80% off.  

Also a quarter each are 2-packs of scissors and 24-ct crayons, though it's worth noting that these are NOT Crayola crayons.  I usually don't display brand allegiance in the face of deals.  There are three exceptions where I ALWAYS buy my brand:  ketchup (Heinz), tampons (you don't really need to know that!) and Crayola crayons/markers.  I wouldn't buy anything but Crayola because the crayons seem to break/crumble and the markers seem to dry out on every other brand.  Even if they're super cheap, it's not worth it in the long run.

Now, there ARE LIMITS on these items, and Office Depot's position is that they do not waive or extend limits for teachers, so you need to either bring people with you or be willing to make multiple transactions to get what you need.  

They also have some cool FREE items, either with instant or mail-in rebate.  Up to 5 folders and up to 3 protractors are absolutely FREE - no rebate or anything! - in store all week.  Crazy!  While you can do multiple transactions for the sales, I don't think you'll be able to get away with that on the free items.

There are also FREE mail in rebates on Sharp Calculators ($6.99 laid out, given back on a prepaid Visa) and Sharpie 5-packs ($4.49 laid out, given back on a prepaid Visa), which is sort of nifty.

If you go here you can also print a $10 off $40+ purchases coupon, but since you probably need to make 8 million transactions to get enough pencils or whatever, you may not be able to spend that much.


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