Deal of the week: Buy two Five Star Mead 4-pocket portfolios for 50 cents each at Target and get them FREE with the $1/2 coupon from the 8/5 Red Plum insert.
Even if you don't have kids, now is the time to buy pens, pencils, computer paper and other items considered school supplies.
Think about stocking up your home office or buy the ultra cheap deals and donate them to a nearby school or charity.
But do your homework! That includes reading the fine print. Some deals, especially some of those enticing free and penny deals, require a minimum purchase or involve a rebate.
Take a look at the very best of this week's deals:
At Office Depot:
Vinyl storage pouches: 1 cent. Limit 3.
Acrylic 12-inch ruler: 1 cent. Limit 3.
One-subject notebook: 1 cent. Limit 3.
Foray Rollerball & Porous Point Single Pens: 50 cents. Limit 10.
Scholastic glue sticks (4 pack): 50 cents. Limit 3.
Dry erase markers (2 pack): 50 cents. Limit 3.
Pocket tissue packs (3 count): 50 cents. Limit 3.
1-inch vinyl binders: $1. Limit 3.
Mechanical pencils (12 count): $1. Limit 3.
8GB flash drive: $4.99.
At Staples:
Coupon in circular: $5 off your $50 purchase.
Binder recycling: Get $2 toward a new binder for every old one you bring in to recycle. Read my post HERE for all the details.
Zebra Z-Grip retractable ballpoint pens (7 pack): Free after rebate. Limit 1.
Composition books: 10 cents with $5 minimum purchase. Limit 3.
No. 2 pencils (8 pack): 25 cents. Limit 2.
Slider pencil case: 50 cents. Limit 2.
Dual-size pencil sharpener: 50 cents. Limit 2.
Hand sanitizer (2 oz./2 pack): 50 cents. Limit 6.
HammerMill copy paper (500 sheets): $1 after rebate. Limit 2.
8GB flash drive: $5.99.
At Office Max:
20 percent off sale: Everything you can fit in the brown bag inserted in Sunday's N&O is 20 percent off with certain restrictions.
Case paper, printer accessories, storage, furniture, chairs and select printing services are also included.
Fill the bag with old documents and receive 20 percent off shredding services.
At Target:
Mead 4-pocket portfolio: 50 cents
$1/2 (8/5 RP)
= FREE!
One-inch Avery clear-cover binder: $2.
8GB flash drive: $6.99.
At Walmart:
One-subject notebooks: 17 cents.
Filler paper (150 sheets): 82 cents.
Paper Mate ball point pens (10 pack): 94 cents.
Scotch transparent tape (2 pack): $1.
Post-It Super Sticky Notes: $1
$1/$5 purchase (8/12 SS)
= 80 cents each.
Note: Don't forget, Walmart will match other stores' prices. Bring in your ad and warn the cashier beforehand to make the transaction go more smoothly.
At Big Lots:
Index cards (100 count): 39 cents.
Pencils (8 count): 39 cents.
Rulers: 39 cents.
Stretch book covers: 49 cents.
1-inch poly binders: 49 cents.
2-pocket poly portfolio: 49 cents.
At CVS:
Composition books, Elmer's Glue, zippered pencil pouches: $1.
Spend $15 on select Paper Mate, Sharpie and Expo, Get $3 Extra Bucks. Limit 5 deals.
Spend $15 on select Five Star products, Get $3 Extra Bucks. Limit 5 deals.
Five Star Mead coupons in the 8/5 RP
Spend $15 on select Crayola products, Get $3 Extra Bucks. Limit 5 deals.
At Rite Aid:
Binders (all): BOGO.
$1 +UP Reward on 1. Limit 4.
Single-check rebate also available.
Elmer's glues, glue sticks: 79 cents.
$1 single-check rebate on 3.
Mead composition books: 3/$1.98.
Note: $5 single-check rebate on $20 in Mead products.
Five Star Mead coupons in the 8/5 RP
BIC stationery items: Buy 1, Get 1 50% off
$1 +UP Reward on 1. Limit 4.
$3 single-check rebate on 3.
$1/2 (7/29 SS)
This should work out to free or nearly free.
Select school supplies, including wooden rulers, single Sharpie marker, Playskool 24-pack crayons: 29 cents.
Poly notebooks, file folders, tabs, tape: BOGO.
Assorted backpacks, lunch kits: BOGO.
At Walgreens:
2-pocket folders: 9 cents.
Highlighters: 19 cents with in-ad coupon. Limit 6.
Paper Mate pens or mechanical pencils (5-10 count): 29 cents.
No. 2 pencils (8): 39 cents.
Pencil sharpener: 39 cents with in-ad coupon. Limit 3.
Paper Mate Highlighters (6 pack): 49 cents.
1-subject notebooks: 49 cents.
Glue sticks (3-pack): 49 cents with in-ad coupon.
Composition books: 59 cents.
Plastic school supply box or 12-pack Penway colored pencils: 69 cents.
Crayola markers (10) or crayons (24): 99 cents.
Crayola colored pencils (24): $1.99.
Expo dry erase markers (4 pack): $1.99.
Stretchable book covers: 2/$4.
Five Star Mead Portfolio or Notebook: BOGO
$1/1 or $2/1 Five Star coupons (8/5 RP)
Select backpacks: BOGO.
At Kroger:
Twin-pocket portfolios: 15 cents.
One-subject notebooks: 19 cents.
Paper Mate pens (10 count): 33 cents.
Composition books: 50 cents.
Erasers (7-15 count): 50 cents.
Glue sticks (2-4 pack): 99 cents.
