Happy Back to School Day!!

Probably one of my most favorit-ist days ever!! The first day of school!!!  I love my children, honest I do, but after 3 months, it's just time to get back into a routine.  I will admit that trying to work with 3 kids in school and add a few extra curricular activities for the bunch, my brain is already frazzled.  I was remembering an old printable my friend Colette put together to help busy mom's like myself and thought I needed to share.

 It's a "Mommy Homework Binder"!  Best of all, it's a free download!  I am planning on mine having a section for each child, a sleeve for the school calendar, a sleeve for the lunch schedule, and a copy of her super cute calendar too to keep track of everything our little family will have going on this year.  I'm super excited about getting everyone back on track!

Stop by her blog My Computer is My Canvas and check out some of the other amazingly cute things she has put together!  She really is amazing!!

Back to School Blowout!

Woo Hoo! I love office supply stores! First, go get cards for all your local office supply stores: Office Max, Office Depot and Staples. Cards are free. My favorite way to save money at these stores is to take advantage when they offer 100% rewards back on products that you will use or donate. I've seen it offered on paper, batteries, printer ink, etc. So when they offer these deals, I will buy the products I would buy ANYWAY and then wait for my rewards. The rewards are given quarterly so whatever you rack up in rewards each quarter, you'll get a certificate that you can use on most anything in the store! AND most office stores give rewards back for turning in empty ink cartridges too. Office Depot several months back was doing a weekly special where they offered $5 per cartridge! I got all my cartridges together and sent my hubby down to turn in all the ink. I was so excited because you typically get between $2-$3 for empty ink cartridges. Another way to rack up your rewards!

So I share this with you to tell you about my AMAZING trip to Office Depot! I had rewards to spend that were going to expire in a couple weeks. School is coming up so on my mind was school supplies and a couple other things. Here's what I got: 100 pack blank CDs, 2 Elmer's glues, 8 glue sticks, pack of 24 #2 pencils, 2 school boxes, 1 Crayola crayons box of 16, 1 kids scissors, 2 packs of 3 pink erasers (brings back memories!!), 1 mini notebook, 2 Crayola Wonder coloring pads with markers and guess how much????? Drumroll please.....After rewards I spent $2.50 out of pocket!!! I hear applause! How fun was that!! I saved over $50 easy! So go get signed up for your office reward cards and check the weekly ads!!