Get Next Years School Supplies This Summer - Thursday 1st January 2015

The back-to-school sales are on right now. Notebooks, packs of paper, pens, highlighters, Textas, folders, pencil cases, backpacks and so on are ridiculously cheap after the new school year rush. I buy a couple years' worth of items and stash the extras away to pull out the following January, saving me money, time and energy. I keep them in a box in the linen cupboard with strict instructions that I am the only one allowed to take things from the box (otherwise everything would just disappear, and there's no saving in that). With five kids, shopping for school supplies every second year really is worthwhile.
Contributed by Becca Molloy