Now is the perfect time to shop for back to school supplies. My strategy is to shop for the supplies at each store I enter. I only buy those items at each store that have been significantly marked down. For example, I bought some folders at Staples for 1 cent each and I bought a pack of 36 pens at Office Depot for $1. If you spread your back to school shopping around several stores, you will get the best deals. Don’t neglect your local supermarket as well, I found spiral notebooks there for fifty cents each.