Remember when you were young and just about to start a new school year and had to make sure you had all the necessary supplies? Our book-bags always contained several #2 pencils, a 3 ring binder with divider tabs plus tons of 3 hole punched white (and blue lined) notebook paper. These were the only supplies we needed and we did very well with them.....
While visiting my son yesterday I asked where his 'girls' were.....his girls being Jennifer and her daughter Kaitlyn (both of whom I love dearly). They were out shopping for school supplies he said......with school starting in 2 days I remarked that it was cutting it pretty close, I mean would they have enough notebook paper? Silly mom he replied....Monday is the official first full day of school....Friday was only a half day where the students got to meet their teachers and get a list of supplies needed for each class.....I was in amazement. A list of supplies, for each class?
When did the 3 ring binder go out the window? With the horse and buggy? Nowadays school supplies are so much more: calculators for charting and graphing; personal computers (the new version of the 3 ring binder) and God knows what else.....
And all the while I kept thinking, how much was all this gonna cost.....but in reality I really didn't want to know....boy have times changed....Can someone tell me do they even still make #2 pencils?
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