2jakes
I'll Lock Up
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I absolutely love holidays. I love decorating for them (I put up five trees in my house for the winter holiday). I love walking through the store and seeing all the decorations. Ruins the excitement to see Christmas stuff so early. It also takes away from the "lesser commerical" holidays that used to have nice displays- like Halloween or Thanksgiving.
I can see them putting out the Christmas stuff after Halloween, as many people use the day/ weekend after thanksgiving to decorate for Christmas (as family tends to still be home and some people take a long weekend). But not before Halloween.
As far as the school stuff, I always wait until it is close to the school year to pick up supplies to donate, as they tend to have the best sales then. Last year I got 20 boxes of crayons for $10. Spent about $22 on school supplies and got the crayons, 30 pads of paper, 20 glue sticks, 10 pencil boxes, and 40 pencils. I was most proud of getting the pencil boxes, as the school I was donating to needed those badly and I got a really good sale ($.50 a piece). Next year I want to be better about watching the sales, as I missed out on a really good glue stick deal. (I donate to a small rural elementary school.)
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