Our local schools have paper recycling bins in the parking lots for newspaper, magazines, etc. This time of year can be a goldmine as teachers are cleaning out their classrooms. I discovered this little tidbit last year as I was dropping off my newspaper around the last week of school. The recycling bin was full of unused school items! I got a big stack of Kindergarten worksheets, several Language Arts workbooks, some science workbooks, and two huge unopened boxes of bookcovers – my kids have drawing paper for the next several years!

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