<p>Staples has been running their back to school sales. This week they are also offering a $5 coupon to use on a $25+ purchase. The coupon is on the first page of the flyer that I picked up in the store. I think that it is online as well.</p>
<p>Neither my 18yo S or 11yo S want anything to do with LL Bean or Lands End. Both are due new backpacks this year, although D wouldnât mind somekind of bag instead of a backpack. I keep a second set of books at home for her, so her load consists of 3 ring binders and notebooks mostly. S is off to college so it will need to accommodate those needs, whatever they are. Thoughts?</p>
<p>Go to REI or EMS. They have backpacks there. I personally like Jansport and my kids have appropriated everyone I have bought for myself!</p>
<p>Someone suggested today that they had scored North Face backpacks at TJ Maxx/Marshalls. I donât know if thatâs on the acceptable list for your son.</p>
<p>Got my dd a High Sierra Access high capacity laptop backpack last year. She loved it and it is still in great shape after a full year of abuse. It has so many cool things about it but the most important feature is that it has its own tuck away rain cover. They run different prices at different places but I can only recommend the access one. I bought it at my local JC Penny store. I know Kohls and other stores carry them as well.</p>
<p>Got menâs white handkerchiefs at a Bealls dept store in Florida on clearance today 95% off. Bought 10 dozen packs @ 40 cents eachâ120 cotton hankies for $4.00.</p>
<p>mamom, our Costco has a large supply of backpacks right now. I donât recall the brand but itâs $15.99 and my teenage son thought it was fine. So did my husband. Theyâre both traveling now and using the packs as their carry-ons. They have found the packs nicely designed, with room for a laptop and other items. Colors available when I was there about a week ago were black, olive, a deep blue, and some prints.</p>
<p>What do you do with 120 cotton hankies? That sure is a lot of them! Donât know many folks who use them these days. Even hubby has switched to using Viva paper towels instead of hankies. The kids just go thru mounds of Kleenix.</p>
<p>Yes, the Costco backpacks are reasonable & nice. Look to be good qualityâunfortunately too large for our D (who is a petite 5â).</p>
<p>I bought a keyboard at Staples on sale (online) and with an extra 5.00 coupon and Staples sent me a 10.00 coupon which they also took and I had free shipping, so Iâll have it at my door in 2 days. I added some other sale âback to schoolâ items so we are just about done.
I love that. : )
I also love that they, unlike some stores, they add the total before coupons and you get free shipping on that, some stores will say, you donât have the 50.00 because of the coupons and want you to add more.</p>
<p>lizardâare you running a summer camp and need hankies for crafts? :D</p>
<p>Glad they are cottonâŠat that price I would expect some catch, like they are polyester. :(</p>
<p>I got a $99.00 tablecloth at Williams-Sonoma for $40.00. I rarely buy anything there. Itâs so expensive, unless you get something on sale.</p>
<p>Another endorsement here for getting a quality backpack at EMS. Bought one for DS during junior year of HS and he is still using it even after graduating from college in May.</p>
<p>lizard, Let me know if you want to sell off a few packs of those hankies. My husband uses them at his band gigs when he starts perspiring on stage. Much less discreet for wiping up when heâs wearing a tux!</p>
<p>Hereâs my un-deal of the day - I lost my Kohlâs cash! arrrgh!</p>
<p>ooo, lost Kohls cashâŠdagger to the heart kathiep.</p>
<p>I endorse the NorthFace backpack. S1 got his NF backpack freshman year of h.s and is still using it as a college senior.</p>
<p>^^Ditto. Dâs NF backpack is still in very good shape after 3 years of college life and multiple plane trips across the country. It was worh every penny!</p>
<p>One thing that I carry with me at all times is a handkerchief. When I was in 4th grade one day I had a bad cold and sneezed a horrible, horrible mess all over me and my school deskâI didnât have a hankie with me that day. I was so embarrassed and had to clean everything up with ruled school paper as best I couldâI have never gone out without a handkerchief sinceâI was scarred for life! When I saw the hankies on sale, I jumped on them. Some of the packs were packaged with 13 included too so I ended up with even more than 120.</p>
<p>Mini good deal of the day⊠printer paper at staples 50 cents, index cards a penny, five pens free. No coupons, but the pens and paper had rebates. Yea! :)</p>
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<p>Beautiful queen-size pink and brown quilt: originally $140 - on clearance $14! at JC Penney Home Store.</p>
<p>abcnews.com/GMAâŠfeatures some âbuy todayâ deals including Nooks that come with $400 worth of classics loaded on them plus free shipping, a Coleman tent for anyone looking for one of those as well as some travel deals. Might be worth checking out.</p>