My birthday is towards the end of summer so every year one of my birthday gifts was always a backpack, lunchbox and supplies for the new school year. That was the beginning of my love affair with stationery.
I spent this Saturday, with my kids and my mom, shopping for school supplies. Gone are the days of simply "knowing" that a couple composition books, some pencils, a ruler and a couple folders in a backpack were all you needed on the first day of school. The list of school supplies my kids need for kindergarten and second grade filled an entire shopping cart.
It's not enough that they need two containers of large glue each, it has to be a specific kind. It's not enough that my daughter needed 3 packs of crayons, two packs of colored pencils and a pack of fine tip markers, they had to be CRAYOLA. The four boxes of baggies, had to be ZIPLOC. And the two rolls of paper towels have to be BOUNTY. Sure, right. I got all the CRAYOLA crap. As a lover of stationery I can appreciate that there's a difference between Crayola and say Rose Art. Fine, WalMart had the Crayola stuff on sale, anyway. I did, however, draw the line at the Ziploc brand baggies. WalMart apparently knows of the racket between teachers and Ziploc, so they head us off by offering their brand of baggies 2 for $4.00 and doubled the number of baggies per box too!
I've not mentioned yet how much I love WalMart!
I LOVE WALMART!
The first time my beloved took me to one I had to hold onto the receipt to show my mother that I had purchased almost 100 items for only...$ I don't remember how much, but it was AMAZING! It's not just me, though. My dearest is also a WalMart devotee, so much so that on our first family trip to DisneyWorld, SUPER WALMART was our first stop after we got off the plane and our last stop before we got back on the plane and returned home.
I am one of those people that shake their fists at the district councilmen and neighborhood watchdog groups that won't allow WalMart to grace our fair city. Who are we to stop the uneducated from getting paid less than minimum wage with no benefits...it's more than they're making now! No, those bastards make it so that I have to schlep to Long Island or upstate New York for my WalMart fix. Damn you!
Despite the schlep, I packed up my monsters and made the Walton's a little richer. I love WalMart.
I'm off to go smell a couple dozen brand new Crayola crayons, sharpen a trees worth of pencils and label every damn one of them with my son's name and class.
Goodnight, JohnBoy.
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Ok thats ok i guess to love walmart! well walmart isnt that cheap now the prices are raising higher and higher all because of THE STUPID GAS PRICES it is not going to help gas stations to get a lot of money by raising the prices because people use a lot of gas! one day people wont have that much to get gas! people might not have a lot of money then they would probably have to sell things that those people cherish!
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