For Those With Kids (or Themselves!) Going Back to School

The Con­scious Con­sumer and Back-to-School Shopping

I real­ize the link is a bit late for many peo­ple, but it just came across one of my lists this morning. 

I have to say, one thing I do not miss is the extor­tion sup­ply lists from teach­ers each year. All the stuff that they want not just for your kid, but to stock the class­room: X box­es of Kleenex, Y rolls of paper tow­els, Z bot­tles of hand san­i­tiz­er, etc. And then there are the sup­plies just for the teacher’s use, like red pens for cor­rect­ing papers.

I won’t even get into the “option­al” manda­to­ry extra fees.