Teacher Outfits!

I'm not a huge fan of BlackFriday shopping, but due to a lot of family budgets and financial reasons, I could only save up until BlackFriday to do what I can (not want).

Recently, I found out I don't have much of  formal clothes to go to work in. I love skinny jeans, but I have leopard printed, red, blue, green, and even neon yellow. Although those are awesome to wear (I bought them for $10 each!), I can't seem to find skinny jeans of duller color for work.

Even though they're not as cheap as I wanted, for this BlackFriday, I got several different colors of skinny pants (brown [$20], khaki [$20], gray [$20], corduroy blue [$10.70], and black sparkly [$9] [just because the plain black one was over $20!])

Mom recently bought me shoes too (all flats):

• Michael Kors -- black beige and gold 
• Lauren Ralph Lauren -- black and gold
• Lauren Ralph Lauren -- black and silver
• Guess -- gray skater shoes

I believe I can mismatch a lot of this. Can't wait to start wearing them this Monday!

Did Not Know -- Purchase of Images

I had no idea that people were selling clip art to teachers (or anyone).
http://www.scrappindoodles.com/ you have to pay to get pictures????

Read Matt's article today and it made me think about "cuteness" that teachers try to put into their classroom thinking it would make their classroom more effective.

I've thought about it for a pretty long time. What good is your classroom if you can't use it to its full potential? You can make it as cute as you it to be, but would having polka dots really help you organize where the students work should be stored? Or if having a pink and black pattern would help you organize your students' data.

But I'm also try to see the other side of the spectrum. Maybe having a cute classroom encourages the teachers to keep it cute, therefore keeping it more organized. I won't know until I start next year. We'll see!

Teacher Sale 2013

I found a couple of places where I can start looking for classroom materials and decorations. I'm hoping to go cheap and find as many sales as I want. The following places are great places to start looking for sales:

• OfficeMax
• Staples
• Big Lots!
• Office Depot
• Mardel (too bad I live in IL)
• TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers) [although I prefer not to by things from them]
• Joanne Fabrics
• Michael's

Capitallyfrugaldc actually has a ginormous list of where teachers can get discounts (including many other places not obtaining classroom materials).

Many of the sales are around Teacher Appreciation Day/Week and they are different for each store lol.

*Mental Note: Keep checking on the websites weekly when May starts.

Other places to buy without sales:

• Goodwill
• Dollar Store
• Dollar Tree
• Garage Sales