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Saving You Money: Back to School Deals

Posted: Thu 8:41 PM, Aug 06, 2009

If you watched my Saving You Money story Thursday night, you know back to school shopping is in full swing. Many retailers are offering great deals on school supplies. I went through this week's advertisements. Here are the best deals I've found. You'll also find links to the store's advertisements.

 

If you watched my Saving You Money story Thursday night, you know back to school shopping is in full swing. Many retailers are offering great deals on school supplies. I went through this week's advertisements. Here are the best deals I've found. You'll also find links to the store's advertisements.

Walmart Deals

8ct Crayola washable markers $2.50

24ct Crayola washable crayons $2

8ct Crayola washable watercolors $2

$1.50 deals Sharpie 2pk fine markers, 10pk mechanical pencils, 5pk highlighters

***You will find many deals for under $1 inside the store. Just look for the school supply aisle.

Click here for this week's advertisement.

 

Target

100 ct 3x5'' Index Cards $.40

1 subject fashion notebooks $1

Recycled school supplies (pencil box and pencil pouch) $1

Jumbo Target glue stick $.50

6ct pink erasers $1.50

Soft touch ruler, protractor, scissors $1.50

8 ct Crayola washable markers $1.50

1'' fashion binder $2.50

Basic student planner $2.50

1ct PaperMate mechanical pencil $2.50

3ct Pilot G2 black roller gel pens $2.50

Insulated lunch kit $9.99

Backpacks (barbie, stone wars) $8.99

Swiss Gear backpacks $35.99

Click here for this week's advertisement.

 

Walgreens

White posterboard 22x28'' $.19

10 pack Penway yellow pencils $.19

1 to 5 subject Mead Five Star Notebooks *buy 1 get 1 free

Corner Office binders *buy 1 get 1 free

$.99 sale: 1 inch binder, one size fits all book cover, Elmer's jumbo glue stick, 10 Crayola markers, fiskars kids scissors, pencil sharpener and eraser set, 5pk divider set, 3 subject notebook, 2ct Pilot easy touch pens

$.29 sale: 100pk paper clips, 6 pack Paper Mate highlighters, 2pk pink or 15pk cap erasers, 12'' ruler

$.59 sale: 20pk stick pens, sharpener and eraser set, 5 or 8pk mechanical pencils, animal or skateboard eraser

*buy 1 backpack at $19.99 get 1 FREE messenger bag

$.69 24pk crayons, 8pk jumbo crayons, school supply box

Click here for this week's advertisement.

 

Here's another super saver Walgreen's website. It tells you the best deals and tells you which coupons to use, etc.

Click here for this week's advertisement.

 

Office Max Deals

$.1 deals 2-pocket basic or prong folders (limit 6), 12'' wood ruler (limit 3)

$.10 #2 12 pack pencils (limit 3), wide or college ruled filler paper (limit 3)

$.50 composition book, 100 sheet (limit 6)

Office Max also has many buy one get another one for a penny deals!

Click here for this week's advertisement

 

Office Depot Deals

$.5 Office Depot brand pencil pouch (limit 3)

$.10 Tug pencil sharpener (limit 3)

$.25 10 pack #2 Pencils (limit 3)

**Free scholastic 4oz school glue with minimum $5 purchase (limit 3 per customer)

$.99 deals 12'' acrylic ruler, 6 pack Sharpie highlighters, 100 page composition book, 10 pack ball point stick pen, 100 pack paper clips

Click here for this week's advertisement

 

CVS

Many of the school supply deals for this week ended on Tuesday. You'll still find $.99 items, but for the first three days of the week these items would have been free with a free extra bucks reward card.

There are some deals on school supplies next week as well.

Here's the link to this week's advertisement:

Click here for this weeks advertisement

Here's a link to next weeks advertisement. I found this on www.iheartcvs.com. I've talked about this website before. It's great for avid CVS shoppers -- Click here

 

Here's another link to a website one of our producers raves about. There are other school supply deals listed here: Click here

 

Happy saving! If you've found deals that I've missed, let me know.

- Meredith

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