Back to School Shopping, Already?
Thanks to Walmart for sponsoring today’s discussion.
It’s crazy. Here we are with less than two weeks now until my oldest starts first grade. FIRST grade people. Like not the baby of the school! I need to make sure I have colored ink ready in my printer for my back to school printable! Oh yeah, and find the binder in which I put last years’!
I’ve actually done all of her back to school shopping already, too. I did a shop for our church’s stuff a backpack program, so I picked her goodies up as well. This year, I only took E with me. It was the perfect excuse to have a nice, quiet shopping trip. I’ve thought about taking the older two and asking their thoughts. But, when the list says one green plastic folder with pockets and brads, well, there isn’t really much point in asking their preference, and only makes things harder. Or a box of 24 Crayola crayons. Takes the guess work out for sure. (And, yes, this is what is on the list!)
Being a teacher previously, I stick to exactly what the teacher requests. I remember sitting in my desk in first grade with the wrong color folder and being devastated. So, no surprises here.
Walmart has recently created the fun, new, and easy way for parents to shop school supplies for their children/child with Classrooms. Parents can visit the Classrooms curated school lists to get started purchasing school supplies for their kid/s. There is a list for all grades.It’s very easy to sign up to check to see if your student supply list is listed there.
- Visit the Classrooms website
- Click on “Parents Sign up” in the top menu bar.
- Fill out the information
- Then Click “Sign Up”
Of course, if you can’t find your children’s/child’s teacher registry, they have you covered, too. Simply invite them to join Classrooms in one easy step – Click “request a list” to send an email to your teacher.
Also, Teachers can setup their own teacher registry and create a list of items they will need throughout the year. Rather than passing out supply lists to students, teachers can have parents log on and purchase without leaving their home.
Classrooms by Walmart is more than just a great new way to buy school supplies! Check the “Cash for Schools” landing page and see if your school has signed up. If so, you can begin earning 4% cash back on all Walmart purchases for your school. If not, provide your school administrator with the printable “Free Cash For Your School” PDF.
And don’t forget, that you can also help the school of their choice earn money by redeeming eBoxTops!
As a bonus, Walmart’s partners at Lysol® will award over $50,000 in cash prizes to the schools that earn the most cash back between 7/15/2013 and 10/31/2013.
I’m all about making back to school shopping as easy and painless as possible. Walmart most often has the lowest prices, and now they are making it even easier to shop for the supplies and get money for our schools that are in desperate need!
How do you do your back to school shopping? In the store or online?
Thank you to Walmart for sponsoring this discussion.
We haven’t even started shopping yet but hopefully soon! Walmart always has crazy good prices on school supplies, awesome program for teachers!
What a great idea!
We do a bit of both in store and on-line–trying to get the very best deals to stretch the $$$$ as best as possible–thanks for sharing
I usually go to Target the day before school starts. I’m not doing that this year. I have four children to get supplies for and I plan to do most of my supply shopping online. We are going on vacation until the end of August, and when we return home, we are having two birthday parties, so no school shopping time!
Mine starts 1st this year too, in about a week!! crazy!!
Wow our schools don’t start here till after Labour day. The kids get out at the end of June though. I do my shopping mostly at Walmart in the store. However, now that Walmart has online shopping in Canada, I may just do it on there and save myself the trip!
Taking the boys on our 50 day road trip made the summer pass so incredibly fast. I can’t believe they will be back in school in three weeks. Walmart always has the best back to school supply prices, so I will definitely be stopping in in the coming weeks!
This sounds great!!!
Super easy! I wish they had this when I was a kid – mom would have loved it!
AS a former 1st grade teacher also…this is a great service. I esp like the list that goes for the year!
Our elementary is doing a PTA fundraiser where they put the sullies together for you…so we did that….takes all the guess work out!
This is a very good and thoughtful service!
We just moved so I’m looking for new schools for my preschooler.. we LOVE walmart for school supplies!
This is such a great idea! My son is going into Kindergarten so I’m all new to this. Off to see if his teacher has a list!
I prefer going in person. But it is too soon for me, I don’t want to think about school starting for another few weeks.
I do it all in the store. This is actually my first year doing it, since my daughter is starting kindergarten in a few weeks.
My oldest is only in preschool so thankfully, they take care of her supplies. I usually don’t do a big shopping trip for beginning of the year clothes either. I spread things out and buy things as needed throughout the year.
I cannot believe school is starting!
I can’t believe school is less than three weeks away, and we haven’t done any back-to-school shopping yet. And, this really does sound like a great idea!
This is my son’s first year of school {preschool} & we’re lucky because his school provides all of his materials. But next year will be another story!
Oh my gosh this is genius! My school hasn’t added their lists for the 2013-2014 year to Walmart’s site yet but they did last year. Of course… I already bought everything on our lists except for like sandwich bags and paper towels (those aren’t on mega sale so they can wait). I’ll have to remember this for next year though!
I just ordered a bunch of supplies on Walmart.com last night! 🙂
What a great program! I had never heard of it before! Sounds amazing!
My son’s not yet in school but this looks like it can really help parents of school-aged children with their back to school shopping!
Ah, back to school shopping. My son is 2.5 so I’m not there yet, but have such fond memories! Scary to think in a blink of an eye we’ll be shopping for first grade too! 🙂
We love Walmart for back to school supplies!
My daughter does summer school a couple days a week, for much of the summer, so back-to-school will come too fast for us I’m sure.
i love back to school shopping 🙂
I just got back from vacation a few days ago and now it’s time for back to school shopping for us a well. Walmart here I come!
This is great for schools. I don’t have any back to school shopping to do, but I do sometimes pick up the BTS deals on office items for myself. 🙂 Neat printable you shared!