Brenda,
Oh, sometimes I hate the crowd thing too (especially because we typically shop with everybody with us!). I guess I just try to stick to Walgreens and Walmart. If I am at Target (after school begins), I pick up a few of their clearance things for throughout the year (the fancy folders and things). I think I might even have some folders that we didn't use yet! This year, I am just going to price match with ads at Walmart and also go to Walgreens (they are right next to each other), but that will be the extent of my shopping. When Walmart has their deals, especially glue sticks, crayons, 5 cent notebooks, I will definitely just buy high volume and keep it in the garage...not the crayons, since they melt. But, as you can see with my last post, Walgreens has some great deals too. I hate to take the kids in the same aisle when I do school shopping because I always tend to give into what they want (folders and such).
Oh, this year I have to buy photo boxes instead of pencil boxes, so if anyone sees them out there for a good deal, please let me know! Right now, I am looking at 4.99 to 9.99 per box.
They have them at Michael's, and on Sunday's, there are typically coupons for 40 percent off, so I am looking at that as being my best deal, but I hate to go all the way over to Michael's....it would defeat my goal of just walmart and walgreens.