The boys are ready to go to school tomorrow.
And I have the makings of blisters on my right hand.
Because, yes, they needed 36 sharpened pencils each. And my piece-of-crap electric sharpener (which has never worked properly) finally gave up the ghost tonight. Mark has an old-style hand crank out in the garage, but it doesn’t “finish” them cleanly, so…each pencil got started on the hand crank and the finished to a nice point on a hand sharpener.
The annoying thing: they will likely never use most of these, because once school starts, they’ll wind up in the school store buying mechanical pencils (which are nicer to use anyway) and most of these will come back completely unused. At least we’ll be able to send them again next year.
I love school/office supplies. it’s hard not to buy myself a brand-new box of everything, too. We cheated a little this year, and the boys did not get fresh boxes of crayons. We had one almost completely fresh box of 64 — just 2 of the crayons showed use, so Joe is taking those. Will is taking a combination of several boxes, resulting in 64 almost nearly-new looking crayons. He didn’t seem bereft by this situation (as I would be, I want a FRESH box…).
We have a number of miscellaneous boxes of crayons (16 count construction paper crayons, anyone?) that I think I’m going to take to school and just donate to whichever teacher thinks they’d be useful. They aren’t getting any use here. I think I have a couple of boxes skin tone crayons, too. Oh, excuse me, they are “Multicultural Crayons” — Sepia, Peach, Black, Tan, Burnt Sienna, Apricot, Mahogany, and White. I was thinking about donating those, too, but I think I’ll save them for when the boys use up their blacks and whites…
TTFN-
Suzanne
Tanya Brown says
My goodness! 72 pencils? That’s the making of a repetitive stress injury, methinks.
Caryn says
There is a certain kind of person that loves office supplies…. I’m right there with you! Why 36 each though? Doesn’t the school own a sharpener? LOL! Maybe you should send them with 2 pencils each and a sharpener… LOL
Jackie says
I have been asked to send a lot of things to school but never the number of sharpened pencils. I’m with you on the FRESH box of crayons! Yeap! I want a fresh box too, the big one please! LOL!
Guzzisue says
same question, why so many pencils? And yes, I would want a fresh box of crayons- still find myself buying new ones each year to take on holiday even though I have a bag full of half used ones. There’s something seductive about stationery shops!