Shopping for School

Now that I’m a working adult, I miss the excitement of buying new school supplies every start of a school year. I still remember the smell of new notebooks and books, the scented erasers and various shapes for paper clips and sharpeners. I have tried re-visiting that experience by purchasing new office supplies for my “home office” but it just wasn’t the same. There are no matching Hello Kitty pens and pencil case. The erasers look boring and dull and doesn’t smell good. Even the pens are neither fun nor colorful.

So you know what I ended up doing? I shopped for my little girl even though she’s not really in that stage where she’ll need a whole new set of pencil case, notebooks, scissors and what-not. They have perfectly good set of school items in school (they provide it to avoid kids fighting over cute things) and don’t really give parents a chance to hoard school supplies.