Check out what I scored for Teacher Appreciation Day! You can't see everything in the picture, so of course I'm willing to give a breakdown of the scene (which, for the record, took forever to set up, so I hope you appreciate it!)
*OD indicates Office Depot free gift for TA Day
*S indicates Staples free gift for TA day (I went to 2 different Staples, so I got doubles of everything)
$OD indicates that I purchased the item at Office Depot.
From left corner, moving down:
Two purple milk crates $OD
4 packs of Ricola Minis $OD
10 "Very Useful" small storage cubes w/ tops (5 packs) $OD
2 Plastic Pencil Boxes *S
5 Steno Pads *S 2 eco-friendly 2-packs / *OD 1 single
Fold Out Ruler *OD
2 Boxes of 12 pencils *S
2 Herbal Essences conditioner samples $OD (hey, they were a quarter each, I couldn't resist!!!)
2 packs 50-ct Push Pins *S
2 packs 100-ct vinyl-coated paperclips *S
Post-It Note dispenser *OD
5 packs of 3M Poster Stickies 4 packs *S / 1 pack *OD
From just left of center, heading down:
2 Staples Tote Bags *S
Sight Words Bingo $OD
Money Tray $OD
4 larger-sized (7 l) Very Useful Containers with lids (2 blue, 2 clear) $OD
5 packs of 4-ct glue sticks $OD
6 packs of 12-ct pencil top erasers technically $OD, except they were FREE.
2 Chapsticks
Center, foreground of photo:
3 packs Expo Dry Erase Markers (2 10-ct with whiteboard eraser / 1 16-ct) $OD
2 highlighters, 2 pencils, 1 pilot Varsity fountain pen, 1 Expo marker, 2 mini-mechanical pencils with squishy grip things *S highlighers and mechanical pencils w/ grippys / *OD pencils, Expo marker and Varsity Pen.
2 folders paper folder *S / plastic folder *OD
DVD-R *OD
From far right, heading down:
Office Depot Tote *OD
White Sentence Strips $OD
Multicolored Sentence Strips $OD
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Aaaannndddd for the totals! Drumroll please:
All Office Depot purchases cost me $79.00 out of pocket. I got two coupons while I was there (one Register Reward and one tear-off as part of TA day) for $10 off future orders. If I apply those savings now (as theoretical, since they function like cash-back) I spent $59.00.
Going over my Office Depot receipts, if I had bought this merchandise at full-price without my teacher's discount, I'd have spent $185! That means that I SAVED $126!!! If I estimate the costs of the free merchandise from both Staples and Office Depot, I probably saved closer to $150!
Future posts will detail my experiences at both Teacher Appreciation Days (and the Old Navy T-Shirt sale!) and give a little bit more information about where my biggest savings were and what the best (and worst!) parts of each day were.
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