Every year I get a school supply list and most of the time the same crap is on it.

Loose-leaf paper

Composition Notebooks

Subject Dividers

Folder

Pens & Pencils

Pencil Sharpner

Pencil Case



And every year I see the same items not being used.  My kid never has the pens I bought but always ones he finds in class. The case is usually found mid-school year under the bed - with the unused pencil sharpener. Last year's composition notebooks are only half filled. Subject dividers are not used because he has 5 different composition notebooks and has a tendency to shove the sheets in any available folder - no matter what it is labeled.



Then my kid wonders why I just cut out the first half of last year's English composition notebook to use this year.  Went through all the old binders and accumulated a stack of unused loose-leaf paper….Staples was charging $5 for a 500 sheet pack….Oh hell no.



"Damn ma – you have me going in as a sophomore like this?"

He is lucky I don't send him in with a tablet and chalk or a bucket of dirt and a stick.



Go earn that scholarship baby!