Shopping for School Supplies Super shoppers and authors, Anne Garber and Lorraine Gannon have contributed some timely tips and sites. Buy school supplies now, as the stores bring in only a limited amount of stock and when it is sold out, it is not always replenished. Buy a whole year's worth of glue, pencils and paper, as they will never be cheaper. A miscalculation in paper consumption means having to buy it at a premium later in the year. Have the kids drag out last years leftover supplies. Maybe that pack of pencil crayons have another year's life left in them. If not, add them to the school supplies that are kept at home for completing homework. Lost the school supplies list that many schools send home at the end of the year? Most school districts have secretarial staff working two weeks before school opens. Drop by and pick up the grade specific list for your child. Lunch kits are the only exception to the 'cheapest now' rule. By the third week in September most places will have marked them down to clear the shelves. Start stockpiling those toilet paper tubes, magazines for cutting up and other supplies that are always needed at the last moment for a school project. Top findarticles.com A humorous article from the Ladies Home Journal list s the supplies every household with school aged children should stockpile. Start saving those shoe boxes and plastic handled shopping bags now. scholarschoice.net Scholar's Choice is an on-line Canadian catalogue of educational materials for both schools and home. cln.org New to the neigbourhood - many schools maintain a web page. This is an alphabetical list of BC schools and school districts with web pages.