Same. I journal and have an office job so pens and a planner are IT. However, I use up those pens and highlighters (it takes forever) and it’s so satisfying to go buy new ones because I actually finished them up.
@@liiss555 I totally get you, I had a huge hoard of stationery. I just recently gave it to my nieces and their parents thanked me because I helped them not spend too much on back to school stuff.
You as a teacher should realize how many kids don’t show up with enough supplies especially in the inner city. My friend has been a teacher for 25 years. One of her biggest complaints is kids not having enough supplies. She is such a sweetheart she packs her cupboards and desk drawer with supplies that she’s bought herself for the kids. It’s very sad.
@@katemiller7874 We provide the necessary supplies for each subject in my district, but I definitely understand that not everyone has the money for supplies. Before they started providing the supplies as a district, I spent plenty of my own money on pencils, paper, etc. for my students. Anyone that helps to make sure kids have the supplies they actually need to learn is wonderful in my book. However, there’s also a lot of junk advertised for back-to-school that isn’t actually needed or asked for on supply lists, like how she showed in the last half of the video.
@@katemiller7874 When I was growing up we had a lot of teachers among our family friends and this care for their students really resonates for me. One thing I found significant in this video was the "strawberry backpack/everything picked to match" mother, who mentioned that sometimes her kid's teachers relay their classroom's needs at the start of a year. It sounds like schools are being underfunded on the assumption that the labour of asking for help can be passed on to the poor teachers, and that there'll be enough parents with the surplus income to allow them to donate items enough that the classroom as a whole can make ends meet. And sure, this mother happily did that alongside convincing her daughter she needed new/matched everything... but it's a lottery how many parents like that there'll be per classroom. Especially in towns where it only takes one major employer going under for a whole lot of families to be short of money at once...
@@katemiller7874I don't think they were talking about the kids whose parents can't afford to or just won't buy new things/needed things for the kids. I think they were actually talking about people like the last person who spent 1.5k on new clothes and "school supplies" - and let me tell you. My mom works at a local school as a cleaner, and the stuff the privileged kids leave behind at the end of the school year or even in between breaks. Lunch boxes, stationery etc - and sometimes even (brand name) backpacks.
I have a hack! If you find yourself craving novelty or customization, if you feel incredibly tempted by the new cute and personalized to ones “aesthetic” school supplies… buy stickers. Stickers can be affordable and you can get them related to your interests. Now that reused notebook has dinosaurs or flowers on it. This way you are saving your wallet and you are creating way less waste. Wanting novelty and fun is completely understandable especially because school is full of work but you can enjoy school without consuming insane amounts of disposable items.
Great idea. In the 1990s, the alt. kids in our schools taught us how to create our own buttons using print-outs of our favorite characters from tv shows. What we did was that we would glue tiny print-out pictures from our printers on unwanted buttons and seal the paper onto the buttons using clear nail polish. We used these buttons to decorate our bookbags and clothes. We also used patches and fabric paints to create our own tshirts, since many of the novel tv show shirts was too expensive for many of us so we created our own using our printers and buying those iron-on papers, or just drawing the characters on the shirts using the fabric paints. The clothes never got thrown out, we just renew them (only threw out if there was absolutely no way to save them). We also took up sewing classes to find new ways to renew clothes, bags and bookcovers. Would be nice for kids to have sewing and Home Economics classes that teach them these things to reduce waste and save money.
stickers are a great idea thank you! i dont go to school anymore but i do like hand writing things like lists and ofc journals. i still have so many half used notebooks and the urge to get more bc im bored with what i have.
Before social media, i would remember kids would come to the first day of school with a shiny new backpack in elementary school every year and destroy it at the end of the year. This is not a social media thing, this has been happening since before that.
I was coming here to say just that. I am 44 years old and I got a new supplies and a new backpack every year. That was normal for my family and those in our community.
I’m 43 and in those days I needed a backpack every year. The reason was that we had these giant textbooks for every class that we had to carry around in our backpack every day. My backpack felt like it was like a hundred pounds and it was honestly maybe 70 lbs. those straps always ended up breaking under all that weight. Now the kids rarely bring home textbooks so their backpacks can last several years.
Entirely agreed, the backpack and supply isn’t new. I always needed a new backpack every year because my previous one would get busted and ripped from how well it was used.
I also did. I think part of this was that we took the bus or walked to school even while young. Now kids generally have to get picked up by a parent at the school doors so they’re not like dragging it around. We for sure needed a new one, mine got destroyed by the end of the year. But I know people now whose kids reuse their bags for a couple years
There is a special satisfaction to using chapstick till it is gone or a highlighter/pen till it’s dry. The fact of keeping up with the item till it’s gone is also another special feeling.
Old school stay at home mom that raised three kids that went all the way through post graduate school: when the school years ended I would gather everything that my kids brought home and and would refurbish and rip out the ten used pages of notebooks and composition books , and put duck tape or stickers on them so they would be good as new . I checked all the markers and sharpened all the pencils and stuck eraser caps on the worn out ones; then when we got the list of supplies from the teachers each year we would shop our stash and buy anything we needed. The funny thing is that even doing this every school year, I now still have a huge pile of school supplies that i hopefully will use for my grandchildren!!
I’m an old stay at home mom too. Never would I rip pages out of notebooks they may have needed that instead of starting a new notebook mid year. My kids had as many supplies as they needed. We even had a 3 drawers full of supplies in case they ran out mid year. I still donate supplies to kids that need them in my 50’s duck tape lol. No way. Make them excited for school. Mine couldn’t wait to get there. To each their own
@@katemiller7874 definitely!! Totally agree to each their own, whatever works for you! My kids had absolutely everything they needed, we just avoided waste and the stickers and updates were fun for them to do themselves and added an element of creativity . I kept the pages that I removed in categorized binders too!! I am a former elementary school teacher and now a current preschool teacher since my children are grown. And they were definitely excited to learn since my oldest is now a medical doctor in residency and the youngest are graduate students , and all are mindful consumers. Being excited about school in our family was more about a mindset and love of learning and education rather than just supplies from a store.
What’s crazy to me are the influencers who buy 5-6 new lunch boxes and bottles for their kids while having stuff that’s still in good shape. It’s one thing to buy one new lunch box if needed but some of these influencers have a whole closet full of them.
I have a friend that bought each of her kids a lunch box for each day of the week so that if the lunch boxes got dirty, she wouldn't have to do anything with it until the weekend. It was wild, like ma'am *10 LUNCH BOXES*...that ended up getting decluttered in a few months anyways because "there is too much stuff!". Make it make sense.
Fr, I understand having like a school lunchbox and a different one for outdoor activities or a sport. But having a closet just for lunch boxes is actually wild as fuck.
We were required to buy mechanical pencils last yr, they went so fast and are so wasteful! Meanwhile I still had 30 perfectly good Ticonderogas in my **extras box** (this was for 5th grade). I wish the required tuff list would be similar things for each grade. Sheesh, when I was a kid we boughtb a 3 ring notebook (or a trapper keeper if you were fancy) some pencils, a pen or 2 and loose leaf paper and we were good to go. My now 6th grader needed four, 3 ring notebooks, 4 very specific folders, an expensive calculator and other random things. None of the plastic folders from last yr were the required colors on the list, or else they didn't have the required prongs. I don't mind paying for it, but can we not be so wasteful? My daughter is in 6th grade now. They want extremely specific things every year ( X color highlighter, X type of dry erase) and it changes for every grade.
I ended up switching to wooden pencils because I seem to lose them less lol A pack of wooden pencils lasts me years while I would loose a pack of mechanical pencils in a year or less. It's also nice not having to deal with multiple components or snapping led. I've definitely saved a lot of money since switching to wooden pencils.
Would you ever do a video about weddings? Currently planning mine and the amount of waste and consumption that's normalized in the industry is insane to me!
For real! some people spend literally THOUSANDS!and a lot of it is overpriced unnecessary stuff.and the couple ends up divorcing anyway.(there is literally statistics on that part)
@@UnicornCharlotte77yes, after a certain point, the more you spend on engagement rings or weddings, I can't remember which, the more likely a couple are to divorce. I remember seeing it linked and reading it, I'll link it if I come across it again!
That would be good! We did a low waste wedding. You can keep so much waste away by not buying decorations. We chose a space that was naturally beautiful and had lots of natural foliage so we didn’t add much. We added some bunting to the aisle which we will reuse in our home and I crocheted our bouquets which we’ll keep forever. The bunting was also reused inside the venue during the meal and the flowers were reused as centrepieces
the more i watch this kind of content, the more grateful i am of growing up poor or in a very financially unstable household. having next to no extra money with my mom helped me cultivate the mentality of "if the thing you have now works, you don't need a new one".
Same. I was only replacing a backpack if it couldn't work anymore. I went through 3 over the 12 (and 4 of college) years of being in school, and only got rid of them when they literally couldn't do the job of "bag" anymore lol. Don't even get me started on pens/notebooks/etc.
same!! i probably had an elementary school backpack, a middle school backpack, and a high school backpack. and i had to beg my mom for a jansport for high school because i wanted to fit in with everyone else and she gave in even though she thought it was too expensive.
During our homeschooling years my mom would pack away all the school supplies during the summer that way it felt fresh and new when we got to bring out the supplies before starting our school year. We would reuse notebooks to build upon our knowledge so like our math notebook we'd use the next school year so that if we needed a refresher on a specific concept we could flip back to older notes. Not only was that less money spent each year (4 of us kids) but it also helped us understand how previous concepts build upon each other and connect to the new concepts or future concepts. When we eventually entered public school in our teen years our teachers were all impressed that we actually retained more information year to year instead of throwing out last year's concepts with our old school supplies.
Are they pretending the "kiddy" backpack trend is new? We did that in the 2010s, too. Even a lot of the guys had Barney and Hello Kitty backpacks 😂 I had Tinker Bell my senior year.
It’s the “everything new” idea that throws me. Just as you were saying with the daughter who is into strawberries, there’s no need to saturate your child with entirely new matching gear! Way back in the 1980s when I was in elementary school, my sister and I picked out a new lunchbox each year. Mind you, this is back when lunchboxes were made of metal! By the end of the year, they were still functional, but battered and scratched - and (this is key) my father would take the old ones to use for storing hardware in his workshop. Phillips screws are in the old Care Bears lunchbox; picture hanging supplies in the Ghostbusters lunchbox! But picking a new lunchbox was a treat. We used the same LL Bean backpacks year after year, and school supplies from the previous year were pooled and restocked with very generic basics. Somehow, purchasing one special item to show off your current interests has turned into a full restock of everything, often around a theme.
I got a new LL Bean backpack in 1998 for third grade and used it until middle school...then my mechanic dad started using it as his work bag and brought it to the shop with him 😂 I love how dads will have their kids' old school stuff in their workshops! Mine had my name monogrammed on it and everything.
the "kiddie backpack trend" 39:29 sounds like one of those trends that looks fun and inclusive on the surface but you can only really partake if you're already rich and "hot". if that trend had been around in my day and my neurodivergent a$$ had tried to partake you can guarantee I would have managed to somehow do it in a way that was considered wrong, cringe or embarrassing. just like dressing up for Halloween.
For real, as another neurodivergent person I was like "Oh so It wasn't cool when I a kid had that stuff, but now college students doing it is cool?? Thank god I'm now it artschool and almost everyone has something "cringe" with them like, yass girl, show of those kid shows pins in your backpack!
It could be that bookbags today are of poorer quality than those made in the 1980s and 90s. I still have my original Jansport bookbag from 1995 (30 years old and still usable). I noticed todays' bags, the regular kids' bags, are of poorer quality. Some lasting only a month or so. If you want a superior quality bag, be prepared to spend over $50 for it. My original Jansport cost me under $20.
When I had to replace my old backpack last year I spent ages going through Amazon reviews for ones with cool designs/colours, but I gave up on buying one that way as it seemed like the quality was a real lottery and I didn't like the idea of not being able to handle something to check the stitching before buying - there were so many one-star reviews where someone showed a photo of a zip that had broken within days, or a seam that was coming apart after a week's worth of carrying a normal amount of school textbooks...
everything is just generally worse quality now, bags are usually made of plastic (or any other derivative of a polymer), or maybe it's cotton/canvas but it would be suuuper thin to cut costs, and everything would be inexplicably more than $50 for.. reasons i guess.
Even jansport isn't made the same now! I bought a jansport to take to field trips and when I have a ton of lesson planning and need all my books. It barely lasted a year.
I still have a couple of Espirit bags from the late 80’s that I used as book bags. Definitely not strong material and they got loaded but they are still kicking. I hated backpacks so I was always using crossbody or shoulder bags as book bags.
I am reassured- I grew up having a new lunch box, bag and pencil case each year in the 1980s. My mum bought cheap stuff that needed replacing. I have been feeling guilty that my child has used the same bag for four years and does not want new stuff. He has more sense than me!
Don't feel guilty for buying him quality stuff that lasts! That sounds like a good thing. Although I was a sentimental kid who would get attached to my things and didn't like replacing them. My mom was practically fighting me to get new sneakers and backpacks when mine were completely falling apart. I've since found a little more balance as an adult lol. No need to replace functional items, but it's definitely okay to let go after they've served their purpose
I've noticed that coolbags with a velcro-sealed flap seem much more prevalent than lunchboxes now, whereas in my 80s childhood you only ever really saw kids with those matching Thermos lunchbox-and-flask sets with TV characters on. Looking back, I suspect that the hinges or clasps on those things were intentionally weak, necessitating intemittent replacement .. and I guess a character that everyone loves when they start school might feel a bit babyish once we hit six or seven and then we'd be after the next thing, whereas now I see a lot of cooling lunchbags with more abstract patterns that are less likely to fall into the "oh my god, you still like Barbie/PAW Patrol??" trap.
I was just feeling this, going on year three for mine and I was used to having a new backpack or lunchbox every year because I needed one… but my kids chose fairly neutral patterned bags from nicer brands and they’ve been holding up so I didn’t buy more :)
I grew up in the 80s and it was the same for me but most of my stuff was quality. Even though it lasted through the year I got an entire new supply every year. I actually expected it and would’ve be bummed if it didn’t happen. But now my kids are excited about the bare necessity of new things-notebooks, pens, and pencils. I’m grateful they don’t expect all the unnecessary extras like I did.
the best thing about back to school shopping is the discounts afterwards when the shops wanna get rid of the left over stock lmao the mechanical pencils make sense to me as an artist, I have tons and there everywhere, one in every bag, every pencil case, one in pretty much every place I keep my art supplies. I'm always misplacing pencils so having a backup is rather useful however most people do not need that many so it seems more like that amount was brought because it seemed like a better deal in the moment.
Looking at how those were packaged in a set of like 40, which didn't appear to come with the little container of spare leads, it honestly comes across as if the manufacturers are intentionally dissuading consumers from realising how the damn things actually work. You never used to see those in "back to school" packs without a set of spare leads being included! I still use one from when I was like 20, and it's got a nice thick barrel so it handles really comfortably. Whereas those look cheap and not made to last, or for people to even realise the lead is replaceable. I almost wonder if it comes from some perverse focus group situation where people got worried about conventional wooden pencils not being sustainable, but now you see quite a lot of recycled pencils, so it's not like making and dumping extra plastic is the only alternative...
Forty year old here to say that during my school years mechanical pencils were a staple. We had 1 or 2 pencils for the whole year (years even id they still worked). If you were lucky you got Sanrio goods and those pencils would be used until hello kitty was GONE. 😂 The pencils were refillable and we carried the leads and refilled as needed. A common thing in my school was to try to have extra leads to share with friends just in case they ran out during a test or something. I’m in grad school and rarely use printed textbooks and/or notebooks. Most teens I know just have their tablets. I’m curious to know if schools have mandatory supply lists. Note: the teen saying “I got this or that…” Girl your MOM got that s*** for you.
Right 😂 Like I’m sure there are teens who buy their own because their parents are broke but they’re definitely not the ones buying insane amounts and doing haul videos
Yesss to the mechanical pencils!! I’d even feel excessive when buying the pack of 3 because I knew I’d use 2 at most during the year (I rarely lost them). I carried around both 0.7mm and 0.5mm lead even though I only had 0.5 pencils, just in case others needed lead
I'm in the same age range and had a similar experience. I had the same mechanical pencil through HS w/ the same backpack and I had the pencil through college and when I was working to jot things down when I was on the phone until it was eventually lost, not died, but lost somewhere. Refillable eraser on the mech. pencil as well. I still have my TI-83+ w/ all games on it from HS and it still works! My kids HS list this year said "a few notebooks and folders to correspond, pencils, pens, a stylus that works on an Ipad, and a portable charging station your ipad can plug into *for days where the Ipad is not fully charged or needs extra to make it through the day. May need a calculator depending on the math class your child has* - That was the full and complete shopping directions I received as a parent of two high schoolers. They got some notebooks w/ folders, a few pens, a few mech. pencils (3 ea.) + leads and eraser refills, stylus, water bottle when it went on sale, and a planner for school and activities. Done. No hauls. No mandatory supply lists and you don't know which teachers will say you need a notebook and folder or which will say they don't expect you to take notes on paper. It's really up to chance, the teacher, the year of school, etc. Even some that say it won't barely have you take any notes. Others like math just need you to have enough scratch paper to work out equations and follow your work.
Man, I grew up middle class and my mom has always valued both school and looking "put together," which is to say she didn't skimp on getting my sister and I back-to-school stuff. I remember thinking when I was a kid that I was getting a LOT (for which I was grateful). But the couple of new outfits, shoes, folders, binders, notebooks, pens, etc. that we got every fall doesn't hold a CANDLE to the insane hauls that are now happening. It's just absurd!!
My mom bought me new clothes but I have seen videos where they are 100 jeans. My mom spent 25 if I wanted cooler jeans I had to pay the difference. My daughter still looks at resale shops for new clothes.
ik this isn’t realistic for many students, but getting an ipad before my first semester of college has saved me from having to buy notebooks and stationary. i did buy a bunch of that at the beginning of my first semester, and then one of my classmates told me you could take notes on the ipad and now i hardly use any of it. i did buy 3 mechanical pencils during spring 2024 semester, but at that point it had been like 2.5 years since i last bought stationary and if i didn’t have an ipad, i would realistically be buying new school supplies every semester! edit (just to add more thoughts): about the backpack thing! i also don’t understand buying a backpack EVERY school year! i’ve been using the same one since 2021 and i won’t be buying a new one unless the one i have breaks to the point it’s nonfunctional. even when i was in grade school, i was getting a new backpack like every FEW school years (i liked getting ones with whatever vera bradley patterns i really liked at the time), but NEVER once a year; quite absurd if you ask me…
I had undiagnosed ADHD and was so frustrated with forgetting xyz notebook in college- I bought an IPad and never lost my notes again 😂 plus my backpack is 1000 times lighter. The notes thing is different for everyone, so I understand if people still want the paper feel of it. I’ve noticed I just need to do the ACT of writing with a stylus for it to register in my brain for school. There is also the issue of the tempting technology aspect of the iPad- DO NOT watch RUclips on it, DO NOT download your streaming platform onto it, DO NOT use social media on it. I’ve basically kid-proofed my iPad in my brain so it’s for *study* and *work* only lol. It really helps me focus. I’ve been using the same backpack since 2019, there’s no reason to buy a new backpack each year unless the backpack is so poorly constructed which at that point you should buy a better constructed backpack.
I'm nearly 33 now and still have one of my high school backpacks that hasn't fallen apart yet and I use it for overnight trips and things like that. Feels unnecessary to get a new backpack every single year.
I got my wife on the iPad train for note taking. She just had to find a nice note taking app before she agreed to getting it. Besides, she loves making art and will use it for that after schooling is done!
Backpacks are only worth buying if lile you go from elementary to middle fo high school whete you might get heavier bigger vooks or have to carry lunch
Definitely agree with the ipad! Before I got one for college, I used to print out lecture notes but I didn’t need to waste paper with the ipad and goodnotes. It’s super useful if you have to do a ton of word problems and calculations for schoolwork. I’ve had one Dakine backpack which I used for 8 years and it’s still in great condition.
Back in the early 2000s, as a HS Freshman, I got a PowerPuff Girls backpack, and I graduated as a Senior with that backpack 😅 Then, for college in 2004 I bought a polka dot Jansport backpack (brown and teal, baby) and 20 years later it is still what I use as my carryon for plane travel.
Oh my gosh me too!!!! I’m Canadian so we don’t have junior & senior. But I went into grade 10 with my PowerPuff Girl back pack, I collected pins and had them go down the front straps I had it until the end of grade 12 when I graduated in 2003. Such fond memories. I also have small feet I wear size 3 in big kids at age 38 so I also wore PowerPuff Girl shoes in high-school 🤣🥰
Same! My girls and I would flex that we had the same shoes and backpack through the years. We would just hang new charms or write stuff on that backpack; the worn out look was a badge of honor. I had a school uniform and we used those sturdy leather mary janes, again we flexed that they made it through our 4 years of high school. 🔥
Could you discuss how stores push the next two seasons on us to influence spending habits? It’s something that gets me every time. For example carters is already pushing Christmas clothing and pulling the “low in stock!!! Buy soon!!!” on brand new stuff that even still has the “sneak peek” label.
This frustrates me so much, especially because there's a substantial part of each season when it's actually really hard to buy items you need for right then because the next season's stuff has filled the shops. It gets especially ridiculous now that the first half of autumn is as hot as summer in some places, or when spring is slow to arrive and you realise you could use another set of thermals to keep up with the laundry cycle, but now there's not a thermal to be seen and the shops are all, "Have you seen our new spring blouse in eight colours??" It's like, let us focus on the actual environmental conditions we have right now! It's also related to how the shops arbitrarily design complete new collections of clothing and homewares not just each year, but each season: they get four chances a year to persuade us we need new things whether we do or not, and I'm ashamed that it works so well on me but I'm really trying to pause and go, "This is nice, and it's abstractly lovely that someone came up with that, but actually the one I have works fine."
Yes, please!! Because all of this “next-seasoning” is responsible for overconsumption or literal FOMO for those of us who have kids that grow quickly. I’m kinda forced to buy right now for November’s cool weather AND for a potential growth spurt in February. Because if I wait, pickings will be slim by the time I return for the next size up. Smh
I'm not a student and haven't been one for years but i absolutely love stationery and use it almost every day. I love writing down stuff, making lists, budgeting. But i am also not allowing myself to go crazy with buying extra stationery when i don't need it. You can love something without buying more constantly.
When I went through elementary and middle school, we were always sent a back to school list for our teacher/grade/subject. These items were required to buy for every single student, though it was rare to always use them all. This was well before TikTok and social media, but it did not mean it was not happening. My mom would just buy the items for me as she thought and that was it. I had no idea there was such an emotional attachment to this type of shopping when I was that age ... but younger and younger people are viewing and producing content.
These hauls aren’t new either!! They been on RUclips way before tik tok was a thing. She’s been out of school for awhile so she may remember the supply list
@@Jessica.Shawnte I think I just was not watching RUclips regularly yet when those hauls were a thing, but I do remember giveaways and such that were sort of similar.
Loved your point about the 40-pack of mechanical pencils. Some supplies do have a shelf life: highlighters go dry, pens get weird with ink flow, notebooks get crumpled and paper changes with humidity, etc. Reusing supplies from the previous year is crucial, but so is not buying too much!
and yet i switched from regular pens to fountain and just yesterday sold muji pens from 2019 that work fine lol. if left capped and unused, stuff tends to last pretty well
My mechanical pencils were 2- or 3-pack. May have repurchased a few times, and typically just had to buy lead refills. Other than that, I had a few pens and wooden pencils that I might lend or lose over time. Probably had the same eraser for most of college
@@amandak.4246lol. I found some old fountain pens at home. They just needed a bit of water into the cartridge and nib to function again. Plus you can buy cool ink colors and write with it.
The mechanical pencils don't hold up very well to being refilled and they have so many different sizes of lead. It can become complicated to be the type of person who refills them with lead instead of just disposes of them. It is kind of like pen culture. Some pens have cheap bodies and are meant to be disposed of, whereas some pens have expensive bodies and are meant to be refilled. It is very much the same with mechanical pencils
@@hcf4kd1992 i had some cheap and considered disposable mechanical pencils. But they also came with a box of refill leads. I just remembered what size they listed usually 0.5 or 0.7 and bought more leads that size. But yeah.. just buy a couple of decent quality ones and use those.
Literally my favorite channel now because I can just put on a 45 minute vid of shawna talking while I clean my apartment. Girl thanks for your channel, both so entertaining and helpful, and the PERFECT background sound for cleaning or bedtime
These videos are like exposure therapy to me 😂 I can watch the satisfying content and then be immediately reminded why it’s bad so I don’t go out and follow a bunch of these creators or fill up my cart. Love it
Haha, you totally ARE my dish buddy! I listen to your videos while I’m doing dishes or food prepping or vacuuming, lol. Also while I’m crocheting 🙂 on the topic of school supplies, I’ll buy some notebooks now and again for self-guided study at home, and I have a whole system for my pens (found a brand I like so I buy ink refills and only change out the barrels when they don’t thread anymore due to wear and tear). I don’t know how anyone can ever go through a 40pack of mechanical pencils-I’m still working on two boxes of 12x Ticonderoga pencils I bought six or more years ago 😂 Thank you for your thoughtful analysis and commentary on consumption related topics! I had already started at the beginning of this year to consciously turn around my wasteful spending habits, but finding your channel has helped keep me in that mindset ♥️
As the mother of three (16, 14, 6) I’ve noticed over the years that the huge school supplies lists from the school can cause a lot of overconsumption too. Specific notebooks (like “red 3 subject from XYZ brand”) don’t get thoroughly used throughout the school year and then the next year another teacher requires another color or configuration. Same with index cards - Spanish teacher requires the tiny ones but next year, math teacher requires full size. Doing a better job at Standardizing the supplies from year to year would go a long way.
this is an excellent point! I didn't mention much from elementary age kids because I saw this the most in middle/elementary. School supply lists are new to me and I didn't have this growing up. Parents and kids just brought what they could. My school used report covers for all the subjects for all the grades and the 'expectation' was you brought a certain amount (3,5 i can't remember) with loose leaf paper so no matter where people shopped you could buy stuff that everyone else had. This I learned is not so common anymore and I have no idea what it's like to have kids come home with supply lists or if they serve kids and classrooms better than not having a list. I did see some videos where parents scoffed at the list or thought it was crazy but then parents and teachers in the comments were like NOPE. Lists are a must. And I just don't know 😅 It seems like when lists exist some kind of standard for a school would be helpful for parents
@@shawnaripariit’s definitely a fairly new thing. I’m 44 and we never had supply lists from the school. Occasionally, as we approached middle/high school, a teacher might require a certain color folder, brand name calculator, or a specific red pen. But these lists are out of control. Even a list item of “30 Ticonderoga pencils” means I have to buy two 24-packs instead of one.
@@TheSharna23 Same! I never got lists for school! That really is wild for a teacher to request specific brands! Ticonderoga pencils are more than double the price of other pencil brands (I know they are good pencils but still $$). Especially when you have multiple kids to shop for, that difference really adds up. I would rather spend that extra money on a fun little extra item that kids pick out (like a fun eraser or whatnot). It also makes it very isolating for a kid who has the store brand and other kids all have the same name brand. Why not just say pencils and let everyone pick out their own?
@@KS-ev2zu the reason is because most classrooms have gone to community supplies. So each child brings 30 of the exact same pencil, and they all go into one classroom pencil bin. Same with crayola crayons. That takes care of the kid who didn’t/couldn’t get the pencils. And I get it, but it’s a lot to manage every school year. It shouldn’t matter if my child has a composition book or spiral notebook. Brand names shouldn’t matter.
Social media has definitely changed the game since I was in school, but I used the same nylon/fabric Jansport backpack from 4th grade (2002) up until I left university in 2015. I still have it in storage just in case I ever need a spare backpack. I always feel like part of the problem is that kids disrespect their personal belongings too much to reuse them, but now tiktok and other apps have incentivized the hauls and overspending for content purposes...what a world.
Yeah, we were always being marketed to at this time of year, but it really feels like the tail is wagging the dog with RUclips and Tiktok - and I say that as someone who loves to look at the new stationery in the shops this time of year, even though I'm really trying to use up what's in the house...
It might be seen more on social media now but this was happening 20 years ago to. Most of my class mates in elementary school got new backpacks every year. A handful of us had llbean or jansport ones so they lasted longer than a year. But a lot of the children's character themed backpacks started to fall by the end of the year
For me growing up poor back to school time was always really hard. Instead of department stores we went to thrift shops and instead of new we reused last years. The thought of 10 year old me getting to do a back to school haul now THRILLING!
im not the most minimalistic person but whats the deal with buying 40 mechanical pencils for a year?? do they just throw the pencil away after a week?? i spent my entire hs with like 2 pencils, 1 of which i still use(its been 6+ years). it was expensive but totally worth it because its so durable. i understand losing them im really forgetful and lose stuff all the time but even im not 40 pencils a year forgetful.
I bought a 12 pack of mechanical pencils 4 years ago, truly no idea why, and I haven't finished any of the lead in the first 3-4 I busted out and I was in school at the time.
Just want to say thank you for your channel :) this back to school year due to your videos I have not bought a singe thing as I realized juts how much I have accumulated through the years. Thank you ❤️
I was born in 1950. It's amazing that all the children throughout the country managed to attend school without all of this junk during my school years! Even in high school a purse was all I carried and that had a few tampax, comb, lipstick and pens and pencils. No one had aspirin, mouth wash, facial spray, etc. etc. Our books and notebooks were carried in our arms and kept in our lockers unless used in a specific class or taken home for homework. No one had a backpack! It would have been laughed at and would never have even been considered! And yes, many of us were in sports, band, or extra curricular activities but that didn't mean we carried half our house with us to take part in these things! LOL! In grade school we had a school bag - kind of a small satchel and a lunch box or brown paper bag for lunch. We had a few pencils, an eraser, and maybe two notebooks or just loose lined paper. Later in higher grades we had a hard bound spiral notebook to hold loose lined paper. And it had colored dividers. We had the basics and not a whole lot of extra stuff. And, strangely enough, everyone managed to learn and progress!! I look at these hauls and wonder what is wrong with these parents spending this kind of money on stuff that will be lost or not used? And it's just soooo much!! Are these people wealthy? Or did the girl with the $400 plus pile of "necessities" work all summer at Burger King to squander her money on all that stuff she will forget about within a week? This is completely mind boggling and ludicrous!
I was born in the 90s and while having a backpack was crucial due to needing more stuff (and lockers not being an option) I don't see the need of half a bathrooms worth of beauty products 😂. All I ever had other than school stuff in my bag was like pads Mabey some candy here and there and occasionally my phone (for calling my mom after school) we weren't allowed to use it in class
That last clothing haul blew my mind. I can't imagine spending that much for myself as an adult. I would never be able to afford it. She obviously comes from money and needs a level set. Unfortunately, she knows it not normal and is insecure by it.
When someone shows off their stuff it's not necessary that they have a rich background. Maybe her parents have to pay for the creditcard debt for the rest of the year... don't belive what you see on social media.
What seemed to make me buy new stuff for my daughter was that i felt guilty that other ppl would be getting new things, and she wouldn't. I did go to a thrift for her "new" clothes which saved me a ton of money, but i definitely feel like i was guilted into buying more rather than nessecity.
That used to be an issue at my secondary school. We had fancy blazers, and school colours had to be on certain items, so you couldn't just buy generic socks/scarf/tie, but had to go to listed suppliers... Although the school held a secondhand uniform fair annually, parents of incoming first years often felt compelled to buy their kid everything brand new from the local uniform shop, which must've made a fortune every August... to this day I'm convinced I never actually wore the official school scarf; it would've been just one more thing to keep track of while traipsing around eight different classrooms a day. But I had a single mum, and I think parents like her especially felt the pressure to buy everything new so we wouldn't stand out in what was already a very conservative and snobby small town. But as kids, I'm not sure we'd have noticed if a classmate's blazer was secondhand. Nobody's new (or "new to them") blazer actually fitted well, due to the near-universal practice of parents going, "Bloody expensive; I'll get it a bit big and s/he can grow into it..."
I caught myself last night looking at backpacks and lunchboxes, and I’m nearly 30 years old with a perfectly nice work bag and a break room with a fridge. These beginning of the school year refresh urges run deep 😅
Something I do is I got a couple of three ring binders a few years ago that I just put new loose leaf in. They’re completely customizable. You can put a new design on them by putting a picture in the front sleeve, you can put in lined or graph paper, and it’s easy to reuse whatever you didn’t need last year!
My grandmother would have us “shop” the office closet where she kept all the excess supplies and leftover supplies from previous years that were in usable condition and check off what we already had before going to the store during back to school. If we wanted anything that wasn’t on the list, or that we already had but wanted a different one we had to buy it ourselves with our allowance or birthday money because she wasn’t in the business of wasting money on things we already had. By the time I got to college I had transitioned to using a laptop because I am significantly faster and more accurate typing than writing by hand. I got my desire for supplies out by setting up digital notebooks and setting colors, fonts and heading styles and making each one unique to that subject. Having a notebook was nice to accompany for drawing things out when I needed to, but that one notebook was more than enough for all my classes and other stuff. It made it way easy to go back through while studying and recreate them digitally when I had time. I found this method could give that same feeling of having something new without having to buy or waste anything.
I have collected *years* of old supplies from childhood back-to-school trips, gifts, and most importantly, LOST school supplies I find left on the ground or in classrooms. I'm in college now and the hoard is definitely paying off; the only thing I've bought in the last 2 years is a new notebook after I ran out of paper (though this year I'm going to try typing all my notes in notion, or as much of them as I can). All the colorful/aesthetic tiktoks are definitely tempting though, especially when you use a lot of crusty, ancient, secondhand supplies. They are practically engineering dissatisfaction!
I'm an artist and my hack is to put my art empties in a big see through jar. I really get joy and satisfaction looking at that jar and putting in a new pencil stub that I've used up or empty paint tubes. I love a good "use what you already have" challenge. I do the same with stationary and notebooks. To make something feel new or exciting, things sometimes just need a quick clean or you can customize your old things. Add stickers you already have, draw a nice quote on your notebooks or colour swatch your pens 🙂
As much as I luv looking at stationary and random crap, after like 6th grade, all I ever needed was some pens/pencils, a single highlighter, loose paper, and maybe some folders or a binder to put everything. Anything else I just bought as needed or 9/10 times I could borrow from a teacher or someone else. I cringe looking back at my youth realizing that a few things could have lasted me like all of middle/high school. But for no reason at all I’d always get new things every year 😩. We really need to teach kids about taking care of their stuff and making it last as long as possible.
I love school supplies and definitely have the urge to get stuff, even though I'm in grad school and primarily use my laptop. So my way around satisfying that urge is I like to wait till the school supplies go on clearance, I have a laundry basket under my bed and I stash them there to donate to my works annual stuff the bus event to distribute school supplies to kids that need it. It's not perfect but it does have an end benefit besides useless consumption
I used to have to get a new backpack every year for school because the quality of them was so shit that they fell apart after like two months and were hanging by a thread at the end of the year.
I can say that both of my boys, from about grade 4 through high school, NEEDED a new backpack each year! They were dirty, gross, ripped, smelled like gym clothes, the straps no longer worked, and more. The old backpacks, even if washed and cleaned and sewn, had no life left! My daughter kept the same backpack, water bottle, and lunch box for years!
I go through a lot of stationery but I'm also one of those people who has a problem with it, so I do *try* to organize my yearly needs around big sales like Back to School or Black Friday. When I was a kid, I didn't get new things unless what I had was worn out/used up.
Adding little details or even a new coat of paint might help some things like book bags, or pencil cases feel new. My grandmother tried to make it seem like I wasn't doing enough for my daughter because I didn't wanna get her new bookbags every year. She currently has four and one of them is good for when she's a teenager, so I realistically never have to buy one ever again. The only reason I might buy my daughter a new book bag is if she wants something VERY specific.
That is a lot of notebooks for a 3rd grader😬 25:33 I really resonated with this portion of the video. Growing up I think I really only got new stuff at the beginning of the school year, Xmas and my birthday. So I really got used to buying all new stuff for each school year. I have completely revamped my mindset with my kids. I don't go crazy buying super expensive supplies because they share supplies and my kids were perfectly happy using their backpacks and lunchboxes from last year especially their backpacks because they were gifted and they loved them. It has been such a relief not worrying about doing a crazy haul of new stuff for 1 year.
i sometimes wonder if the people who constantly buy new stuff ever, for once, think about where their things end up when they eventually don't need them. i'd love to see a thought process that isn't "i can do what i want with my money" or some such. like just sit with me and i'll ask you "why" and "and then what" and we will probably reach no conclusion but i really wanna hear your mental gymnastics
40 mechanical pencils is wild. The amount of plastic just for ONE person it's crazy I use the same one for years and i only replace it when it's so destroyed I can't write with it anymore
We would buy the bulk pack and split it between multiple kids. But even though they are reusable and you can theoretically use them for years that didn't match with reality in middle school and high school. Pencils got borrowed, they got broken, accidentally left in a bus or classroom.
I don't even know why most people need mechanical pencils. I bought a pack of wooden ones a few years ago (I do a lot of drawing) and I still have most of the pack, and I still have quite a few other pencils that I've got with stationary packs, art packs, etc... I don't need to buy any more for a long time.
I am already in my senior year and I just literally only have my laptop and a notebook, a bunch of pens (red and black and not even inside a pouch or case, its just there), and alcohol in my bag. I only watch haul videos to appreciate how much I save. You don't need a haul, you need funds for your thesis since its mind blowing how much it costs.
I love back to school content and buy stationery like a maniac and personally these videos stop me from wanting to impulsively buy new stuff, but also gives me the motivation to use my old supplies so I can feel better about bringing new supplies in.
I love spreading laundry or cleaning to your videos, but currently you saved my sanity as I am in a hospital because my 3 month old daughter is sick with covid. She will only sleep if I hold her in my arms and walk and your videos in my earbuds havw helped me focus on that and keep myself occupied while i do that, so thank you so much :)
@@shawnaripari Thank you! Also thia video hit really close to home because both me and my boyfriend are students and I have the urge ri buy cool back to uni stuff, but that's not the priority when I have a baby, so i lived vicariously through these videos you showed! (although somw of them are outrageous... the 40 mechanical pencils really got to me... I've had the same one since sixth grade)
I recently saw a video of a student doing school floor loot hunting, and rating all of the itmes difficult rarities, giving them stats etc. This would be an awesome new tiktok trend because it adds exitment and value to previously unwanted items.
Before I watch, I just had to comment and say I'm about to watch this while editing a no-buy back-to-school "haul" I managed to do from digging around in drawers at home 😅
I know plenty of people shared helpful tips already but I just want to give mine also: if you feel bored of your bag or your pencil case or pouch etc. I love having little charms or pins to decorate them with. Personalization is such a fun way to revamp something you already own and since I've gotten into crochet recently I can even make my own little charms. I even have a little sprout for the top of my headphones that my mom made for me and I think it's adorable. It's such a simple way of showing your personality and interests without having to buy a whole new bag. I hope this helps someone! Much love
Through all the rounds of school me and my siblings went thru, we have amassed a lot of stationary (checking off everything in the yearly back to school lists......(way too much unused crap in those)), esp ones that are cheap and "unaesthetic". Although I like my fancy pastel highlights, I've made an effort to use up the cheap old neon brick highlighters from years ago. its really satisfying to get it used up!
my tried and true throughout all of middle and high school was a few notebooks that functioned more like mini binders (latching rings on the ends), reinforced ruled paper, and a couple papermate clearpoints with some lead refills. didn't have to replace any of that for my whole time there and just generally felt better about waste because of it! i cleaned up and decorated the notebook covers each year, i never had to throw out a notebook full of empty pages at the end of the year, and i saved soooososo much time and money. honestly, bringing all of those new supplies to school wears into them so quickly and it just makes me sad to see something so aesthetically pleasing get so icky. once it gets to that point, you realize how flawed a lot of the technical aspects of the designs are, too. i'm a professional artist and love me some cute stationary, but ohhhh my gosh. also, laundry buddy here! love listening to your videos while i unwind after work
We are really big on buying in a basic simple, solid color and then you can customize. Like pick a new patch or pin every year to add or trade with friends. They have had the same back packs for years and have traded or gotten as gifts from friends and family. Their friends look forward to swapping pins before school starts every year and it’s so fun! Some of them have even swapped back packs because kid’s tastes can change. And whatever your friend has is always exciting 😅 We also invested in Pack-It lunch bags when they each started school that very first year. Don’t need to buy or keep track of ice packs because the lunch bag is the ice pack. They’ve stood up to years of taking them camping, day trips, and kids who are rough in their stuff
I'm homeschooled and now graduating, and I kinda wish I got to be in school for the trading environment. I have a mini backpack I use as a sensory regulation kit (I'm autistic) and I have some cool pins on it. But I'm not even in an environment where I would be seen as cool for it...
@@birdofthegrape I know all of my kids love their pins and it’s what we get when we travel if they want a souvenir. We have a couple of neighbors and family members who also homeschool and our kids trade with them too. I’m pretty sure most of them don’t even have a backpack, but they still love them 😆
Right before fifth grade, my grandfather took me to get a new backpack for school. I really liked this black Swiss Gear bag, and I remember him happily grabbing it because “it’ll last you a lifetime”. I just started my senior year of high school and I’m still using that bag. I bought a new pencil case, pens, and highlighters right before tenth grade and I still use all of them now. Every time I pick up my red and blue pen I think about all the world history notes I took with them, and every time I grab my bag I get to think about how far I’ve come with it. I grab my post it notes and think back to reading East of Eden over the summer for my junior year English class. It can be fun to get new stuff, but I also think there’s something nice about having a history with the stuff you use.
As someone who is from eastern Europe, I was confused when I started to watch supplies hauls and I saw that people were buying 40 mechanical pencils from Bic for 1 school year. I thought that you could not find led or something, but then I was just like "do they know they can keep using them with even better led?". And I get that you can lose some or they can get stolen, but I still have the same 2 mechanical pens that I got in middle school and now I'm in college. I did get one pack of 5 Bic mechanical pencils in high school for when someone asks for one, and surprise I still have 4 of them. So I'm starting to think what you just said, it's easier for them to just throw them when they run out of led then to buy more lad and this is just disappointing.
Open stock art supplies are great for getting only the colors that you use. You can choose just one or two colors. Lots of bookstores, craft stores, and art supply stores sell open stock highlighters, pens, etc. It’s usually a little pricier per item than buying a big pack but it’s actually more economical than buying a bunch of colors you won’t use
For our gym you needed a whole ass extra set of clothing + shoes and they demanded you always have a back up water bottle 😂 So funny because we only ever hot through half of the firdt water bottle.
I wore a uniform and another separate gym uniform in Puerto Rico where it’s hot Af. After gym class We showered slapped some Lady Speed stick, slick back the hair on a ponytail and put our regular uniform back on. We were so HAPPY.
We had to buy our gym uniform through the school so everyone had the same black shorts and grey shirt. Muddle schools and high school used the same one so I had that thing for awhile
Something that really confuses me is the 50 packs of mechanical pencils, i get like a few but isnt the whole point that you buy refills for them? if youre going to get 50 why not just get regular wood ones? itd be cheaper, for one thing
i'd love to see at least one person going "i bought these and my friends and i will share this one pack cause that was cheaper and we can be cute together" but i guess that won't happen :')
I still have a few mechanical pencils from high school, and one or two from middle school. All of them have at least 1 stick of lead. It's stupid to buy that many, I don't think I've used even 20 mechanicals in 6 years of school
I like to do art and I usually get those packs I can tell you from experience those mechanical pencils are cheaply made and can and are easily brokenable am long out of school but there worth the bucks if your careful with them
This is interesting to me because back in the 90s and 2000, where I am from, in terms of supplies we always HAD to buy a lot of new stuff every single school year.Binders weren't allowed and every single subject demanded a brand new separate notebook for class and a notebook for homework. You would get shouted at for trying to use a notebook for all the subjects, no matter how little some teachers had you write in class. Since we didn't have lockers, we had to carry it all to school , so changing backpack even tru the school year happened often since the sheer weight of notebooks would rip it apart pretty quick, unless the family afforded those really pricy sturdy backpacks. Pencases didn't last long either since fountain pens liked exploding in them every so often. It's a bit funny that now a lot of people can chose to carry less to school but still buy too much. haha
@@Jessica.Shawnte, a lot of the stuff in these hauls isn’t on supply lists. If it’s needed then it’s not crap. 40 mechanical pencils for one person and a whole new wardrobe is crap.
I have 6 kids who lose and break mechanical pencils constantly but short of a family my size I totally agree 40 pencils is nuts! The only thing I will say is that our school does require brand new of the entire list as they pool supplies and do not keep them to one specific child. They are also VERY specific about what to get down to what brand of pen /pencil/ highlighter/ glue brand. It's insane.
I miss the days when kids spent .50 cents on paper from Walmart and $1.00 folders that lasted years and years. Thank god I grew up poor and understand the value of buying what you will use and being grateful for the items I have, even if they are cheap.
I’m a teacher and this is so helpful. Each idea you presented made a memory of a thing pop into my head that I already have and only need to clean or mend.
There's a RUclipsr urmomsushi who had a crazy $8000 back to school haul or something, when she got called out all her kid fans defended her with "it's ok for her to overconsume because she earned that money herself" as if that's any excuse 😭 and then she made herself the victim. So unnecessary and wasteful, especially because she's known to sell the things she buys for these videos on vinted. These youtubers need to do better, it's so wasteful.
late reply but, urmomsushi is a great example of problematic overconsumption. she also portrays a terrible attitude consistently to her viewers. i hardly see anyone talk about it, but i would consistently see her videos in my recommended, so i gave it a chance, and found it absolutely unbearable how reckless she was with her spending habits, as well as her tone and behavior in general. she takes 0 accountability, and i can already see how this will continue the cycle of overconsumption.
@@rustie6629 yeah she's incredibly rude and defensive when people call her out but makes sense she's young and has a massive ego 🤷♀️hopefully she'll grow out of it because she's def never gonna listen if u aren't kissing her ass
I'm a new watcher, but already your content is so useful for me. I don't watch restocking/haul content, but I do have a bit of an issue with wanting that sweet seratonin hit from buying something new, while also needing and craving organization. So I'm working on myself to buy less (though in fairness I'm nowhere near these levels) and not feel that unnecessary FOMO. Your videos are a nice way of grounding oneself and rethink what you really need. Thank you!
As a college student, i refuse to get a new backpack, or to use disposable forks spoons, straws, plates etc. In already consuming enough plastic so id rather save where i can. As for stationary, i am an art major, so unfortunately i feel like im constantly buying for classes. Ugh. But i try my best where i can.
I had all boys. I tried to make them look presentable, but they could not have cared less what they wore or about their supplies. Backpacks were quite literally destroyed almost every year and by the second month of school the lunchboxes were lost. Sooo, eventually lunch was taken in a grocery bag. Boys are a hot mess. If I packed something in a Tupperware dish for lunch half the time they would accidentally throw away my container. I had to put everything in disposable zip lock baggies in grocery bags 😅
That one kid buying over 700 bucks of supplies unironically scared me. Does she value all of these items for how much they cost? I just hope she won't be irresponsible once she starts earning her own money. It just seems very likely to happen if she was raised in a lavish lifestyle.
I literally have not bought a single thing for back to school. I use my partner's jansport backpack from, like, 2008. Some kid on campus hurt my feelings by calling it vintage. 🤣
Former teacher - regarding the emergency kits-most of this stuff becomes an excuse for distraction for entire groups of students as they pass it around and use it during instruction/work time instead of listening and working! I can’t count the number of times I had to tell girls to stop brushing hair, doing makeup or passing around lotion during class. On top of that, students are spraying their body sprays to the point of creating headaches and nausea to myself and other students.
I heard my coworker today discussing going back to school shopping for her 11 year old sons. They still get the lists of required supplies they need to bring. They were asked to get something like 24 mechanical pencils each (so 48 total for their household). They were then asked to provide those pencils to the teacher who would put them in a bank of sorts and provide to students as needed. And then the end of the year she would divvy them up and pass the remainder back to all the students to take home. This leaves my coworker with an excess of pencils each year which she was frustrated with since she has 4 children in school currently.
in the USA, or at least where I live, teachers always request hundreds of dollars worth of supplies from the children or for that one child. Looking for a specific designs can sometimes come naturally but are not "necessary". growing up all my teachers asked us to get color coded folders, binders, notebooks, and flashcards ALL for EACH class. if you did not bring in for example a yellow notebook with a matching yellow folder, green binder with green pouch, etc., teachers would send a complaint and low grade reduction to the students' parents. getting a 20 pack of pencils, 10+ different colored folders and random colored coded junk, bookmarks, crayons, colored pencils, sticky notes, paint, erasers, etc. was always my first homework assignment in school. it's not common in America to only bring a few notebooks, pencils, and bags for your first day.
I was literally just dealing with this. I have 3 kids, and I feel like I HAVE to buy them brand new pencils, colored pencils, highlighters etc every year but then I'm left with a surplus of half used ones that idk what to do with. So this year I decided that I will take the best of our used stuff and send that with them with a few new things and keep worn stuff for home use
I find it insane how much school stationery is required in USA.... Back home you need notebooks and a fountain pen, maybe some of those geometey thingies. Calculators are a no. You reveive all the books you'll need from school and if youre missing one, then you have to share with another person. Given that technology is so widely used nowadays, many schools dont mind you having an ipad or tablet tk take notes on. You can also find many books online too, sure, you have to become a 'pirate' to get them, but they are there. I never spent money in uni for books, i went the pirate route. No wat in hell im paying 150£ for a book that's revised every year😅
We used pdfs growing up in indya in early 2000s...printed them out. For highschool Esp supplement books. Those printouts were often handed over to other kids or whoever needed ofc there were kids who bought books each year and Wouldn't take a single pdf or hand outs.
Can you do a poll after this video on how many people went and bought stationary items within 24 hours of watching this video? Just out of curiosity, because I could feel myself getting triggered 🐛
@@shawnaripari I'm at the point where I find it valuable to face my triggers instead of avoiding them! I need to actively practice what I've learned (: I was more curious from a research perspective about the poll!
The school where my kids go donated back packs, coats, and boots. It was a huge blessing. It’s really acceptable to get donated items & sometimes these items were pre used
I graduated uni 4 years ago and when I tell you that I still EAT up back to school content because it calms my want of going and buying stationery.
Same. I journal and have an office job so pens and a planner are IT.
However, I use up those pens and highlighters (it takes forever) and it’s so satisfying to go buy new ones because I actually finished them up.
@@liiss555 I totally get you, I had a huge hoard of stationery. I just recently gave it to my nieces and their parents thanked me because I helped them not spend too much on back to school stuff.
@@arsonmouse2511thats such a great idea!
I’m a teacher. I can’t tell you how much of this fancy new stuff will ended up busted, in a locker, or forgotten in the classroom. 🤪
You as a teacher should realize how many kids don’t show up with enough supplies especially in the inner city. My friend has been a teacher for 25 years. One of her biggest complaints is kids not having enough supplies. She is such a sweetheart she packs her cupboards and desk drawer with supplies that she’s bought herself for the kids. It’s very sad.
@@katemiller7874 We provide the necessary supplies for each subject in my district, but I definitely understand that not everyone has the money for supplies. Before they started providing the supplies as a district, I spent plenty of my own money on pencils, paper, etc. for my students. Anyone that helps to make sure kids have the supplies they actually need to learn is wonderful in my book. However, there’s also a lot of junk advertised for back-to-school that isn’t actually needed or asked for on supply lists, like how she showed in the last half of the video.
@@katemiller7874 When I was growing up we had a lot of teachers among our family friends and this care for their students really resonates for me. One thing I found significant in this video was the "strawberry backpack/everything picked to match" mother, who mentioned that sometimes her kid's teachers relay their classroom's needs at the start of a year. It sounds like schools are being underfunded on the assumption that the labour of asking for help can be passed on to the poor teachers, and that there'll be enough parents with the surplus income to allow them to donate items enough that the classroom as a whole can make ends meet.
And sure, this mother happily did that alongside convincing her daughter she needed new/matched everything... but it's a lottery how many parents like that there'll be per classroom. Especially in towns where it only takes one major employer going under for a whole lot of families to be short of money at once...
@@katemiller7874I don't think they were talking about the kids whose parents can't afford to or just won't buy new things/needed things for the kids. I think they were actually talking about people like the last person who spent 1.5k on new clothes and "school supplies" - and let me tell you. My mom works at a local school as a cleaner, and the stuff the privileged kids leave behind at the end of the school year or even in between breaks. Lunch boxes, stationery etc - and sometimes even (brand name) backpacks.
all 40 of those pencils will end up on my floor and put into my “forgot your pencil?” jar lmao
I have a hack! If you find yourself craving novelty or customization, if you feel incredibly tempted by the new cute and personalized to ones “aesthetic” school supplies… buy stickers. Stickers can be affordable and you can get them related to your interests. Now that reused notebook has dinosaurs or flowers on it. This way you are saving your wallet and you are creating way less waste. Wanting novelty and fun is completely understandable especially because school is full of work but you can enjoy school without consuming insane amounts of disposable items.
And for backpacks, try buttons, iron-on patches, or cool old brooches (thrifted or hand-me-down from older relatives)
Great idea. In the 1990s, the alt. kids in our schools taught us how to create our own buttons using print-outs of our favorite characters from tv shows. What we did was that we would glue tiny print-out pictures from our printers on unwanted buttons and seal the paper onto the buttons using clear nail polish. We used these buttons to decorate our bookbags and clothes. We also used patches and fabric paints to create our own tshirts, since many of the novel tv show shirts was too expensive for many of us so we created our own using our printers and buying those iron-on papers, or just drawing the characters on the shirts using the fabric paints. The clothes never got thrown out, we just renew them (only threw out if there was absolutely no way to save them). We also took up sewing classes to find new ways to renew clothes, bags and bookcovers. Would be nice for kids to have sewing and Home Economics classes that teach them these things to reduce waste and save money.
stickers are a great idea thank you! i dont go to school anymore but i do like hand writing things like lists and ofc journals. i still have so many half used notebooks and the urge to get more bc im bored with what i have.
this is so cute and fun, I like this!
I remember the iron on patches and button!!
Before social media, i would remember kids would come to the first day of school with a shiny new backpack in elementary school every year and destroy it at the end of the year. This is not a social media thing, this has been happening since before that.
I was coming here to say just that. I am 44 years old and I got a new supplies and a new backpack every year. That was normal for my family and those in our community.
I’m 43 and in those days I needed a backpack every year. The reason was that we had these giant textbooks for every class that we had to carry around in our backpack every day. My backpack felt like it was like a hundred pounds and it was honestly maybe 70 lbs. those straps always ended up breaking under all that weight. Now the kids rarely bring home textbooks so their backpacks can last several years.
Entirely agreed, the backpack and supply isn’t new. I always needed a new backpack every year because my previous one would get busted and ripped from how well it was used.
yeah I got a new bag every year until 8th grade.
I also did. I think part of this was that we took the bus or walked to school even while young. Now kids generally have to get picked up by a parent at the school doors so they’re not like dragging it around. We for sure needed a new one, mine got destroyed by the end of the year. But I know people now whose kids reuse their bags for a couple years
There is a special satisfaction to using chapstick till it is gone or a highlighter/pen till it’s dry. The fact of keeping up with the item till it’s gone is also another special feeling.
I agree! I don't think I've ever finished a highlighter, though
it’s kind of like finishing a task or something
Yessss the satisfaction and commitment feels so good!!
I remember kids eating chapstick 😂 cause there were the candy and soda flavored ones lol
Used to feel that way about markers until I became an alcohol marker artist... now I dread them running dry.
Old school stay at home mom that raised three kids that went all the way through post graduate school: when the school years ended I would gather everything that my kids brought home and and would refurbish and rip out the ten used pages of notebooks and composition books , and put duck tape or stickers on them so they would be good as new . I checked all the markers and sharpened all the pencils and stuck eraser caps on the worn out ones; then when we got the list of supplies from the teachers each year we would shop our stash and buy anything we needed. The funny thing is that even doing this every school year, I now still have a huge pile of school supplies that i hopefully will use for my grandchildren!!
I still tear the pages out of my notebooks to give them new life :)
I did the same thing this year but still needed to buy so much things! So frustrating!
So smart. You are a great mom❤
I’m an old stay at home mom too. Never would I rip pages out of notebooks they may have needed that instead of starting a new notebook mid year. My kids had as many supplies as they needed. We even had a 3 drawers full of supplies in case they ran out mid year. I still donate supplies to kids that need them in my 50’s duck tape lol. No way. Make them excited for school. Mine couldn’t wait to get there. To each their own
@@katemiller7874 definitely!! Totally agree to each their own, whatever works for you! My kids had absolutely everything they needed, we just avoided waste and the stickers and updates were fun for them to do themselves and added an element of creativity . I kept the pages that I removed in categorized binders too!!
I am a former elementary school teacher and now a current preschool teacher since my children are grown. And they were definitely excited to learn since my oldest is now a medical doctor in residency and the youngest are graduate students , and all are mindful consumers. Being excited about school in our family was more about a mindset and love of learning and education rather than just supplies from a store.
What’s crazy to me are the influencers who buy 5-6 new lunch boxes and bottles for their kids while having stuff that’s still in good shape. It’s one thing to buy one new lunch box if needed but some of these influencers have a whole closet full of them.
I found my lunchbox in the trash lol. Before that I think I just put it in a small bag.
I always bought 3 water bottles at the beginning of the year. They break, get lost whatever it’s just good to have back ups
I have a friend that bought each of her kids a lunch box for each day of the week so that if the lunch boxes got dirty, she wouldn't have to do anything with it until the weekend. It was wild, like ma'am *10 LUNCH BOXES*...that ended up getting decluttered in a few months anyways because "there is too much stuff!". Make it make sense.
Fr, I understand having like a school lunchbox and a different one for outdoor activities or a sport. But having a closet just for lunch boxes is actually wild as fuck.
They are only influencers for as long as people watch their content. I refuse to give views to those people 😊
In defense of the mechanical pencils, I never threw them away, I just kept losing them.
This!!!!
Yes! Especially when people "borrowed them" and always managed to forget to give them back!
We were required to buy mechanical pencils last yr, they went so fast and are so wasteful! Meanwhile I still had 30 perfectly good Ticonderogas in my **extras box** (this was for 5th grade). I wish the required tuff list would be similar things for each grade. Sheesh, when I was a kid we boughtb a 3 ring notebook (or a trapper keeper if you were fancy) some pencils, a pen or 2 and loose leaf paper and we were good to go. My now 6th grader needed four, 3 ring notebooks, 4 very specific folders, an expensive calculator and other random things. None of the plastic folders from last yr were the required colors on the list, or else they didn't have the required prongs. I don't mind paying for it, but can we not be so wasteful? My daughter is in 6th grade now. They want extremely specific things every year ( X color highlighter, X type of dry erase) and it changes for every grade.
@@jacobklaas6305 sameee
I ended up switching to wooden pencils because I seem to lose them less lol A pack of wooden pencils lasts me years while I would loose a pack of mechanical pencils in a year or less. It's also nice not having to deal with multiple components or snapping led. I've definitely saved a lot of money since switching to wooden pencils.
Would you ever do a video about weddings? Currently planning mine and the amount of waste and consumption that's normalized in the industry is insane to me!
Oh man- that would be a good one!
Even that they want double the price for flowers, food,.... because people pay for it.
For real! some people spend literally THOUSANDS!and a lot of it is overpriced unnecessary stuff.and the couple ends up divorcing anyway.(there is literally statistics on that part)
@@UnicornCharlotte77yes, after a certain point, the more you spend on engagement rings or weddings, I can't remember which, the more likely a couple are to divorce. I remember seeing it linked and reading it, I'll link it if I come across it again!
That would be good! We did a low waste wedding. You can keep so much waste away by not buying decorations. We chose a space that was naturally beautiful and had lots of natural foliage so we didn’t add much. We added some bunting to the aisle which we will reuse in our home and I crocheted our bouquets which we’ll keep forever. The bunting was also reused inside the venue during the meal and the flowers were reused as centrepieces
the more i watch this kind of content, the more grateful i am of growing up poor or in a very financially unstable household. having next to no extra money with my mom helped me cultivate the mentality of "if the thing you have now works, you don't need a new one".
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Same. I was only replacing a backpack if it couldn't work anymore. I went through 3 over the 12 (and 4 of college) years of being in school, and only got rid of them when they literally couldn't do the job of "bag" anymore lol. Don't even get me started on pens/notebooks/etc.
Same 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
same!! i probably had an elementary school backpack, a middle school backpack, and a high school backpack. and i had to beg my mom for a jansport for high school because i wanted to fit in with everyone else and she gave in even though she thought it was too expensive.
So relatable- now that I’ve got a more stable job still even a little thing like a new pencil bag feels special 😊
During our homeschooling years my mom would pack away all the school supplies during the summer that way it felt fresh and new when we got to bring out the supplies before starting our school year. We would reuse notebooks to build upon our knowledge so like our math notebook we'd use the next school year so that if we needed a refresher on a specific concept we could flip back to older notes. Not only was that less money spent each year (4 of us kids) but it also helped us understand how previous concepts build upon each other and connect to the new concepts or future concepts. When we eventually entered public school in our teen years our teachers were all impressed that we actually retained more information year to year instead of throwing out last year's concepts with our old school supplies.
This should be the rule, it makes a lot of sense. I call my memory a toilet because once I do the examns I flush the information 😢.
Are they pretending the "kiddy" backpack trend is new? We did that in the 2010s, too. Even a lot of the guys had Barney and Hello Kitty backpacks 😂 I had Tinker Bell my senior year.
They have been around even longer than that I remember in the early 2000s having a Powerpuff girl one
It’s the “everything new” idea that throws me. Just as you were saying with the daughter who is into strawberries, there’s no need to saturate your child with entirely new matching gear!
Way back in the 1980s when I was in elementary school, my sister and I picked out a new lunchbox each year. Mind you, this is back when lunchboxes were made of metal! By the end of the year, they were still functional, but battered and scratched - and (this is key) my father would take the old ones to use for storing hardware in his workshop. Phillips screws are in the old Care Bears lunchbox; picture hanging supplies in the Ghostbusters lunchbox!
But picking a new lunchbox was a treat. We used the same LL Bean backpacks year after year, and school supplies from the previous year were pooled and restocked with very generic basics. Somehow, purchasing one special item to show off your current interests has turned into a full restock of everything, often around a theme.
I got a new LL Bean backpack in 1998 for third grade and used it until middle school...then my mechanic dad started using it as his work bag and brought it to the shop with him 😂 I love how dads will have their kids' old school stuff in their workshops! Mine had my name monogrammed on it and everything.
You had a wonderfully resourceful dad as a kid 🥰
the last tik tok was crazy like THAT’S A RENT PAYMENT OMFG
the "kiddie backpack trend" 39:29 sounds like one of those trends that looks fun and inclusive on the surface but you can only really partake if you're already rich and "hot". if that trend had been around in my day and my neurodivergent a$$ had tried to partake you can guarantee I would have managed to somehow do it in a way that was considered wrong, cringe or embarrassing. just like dressing up for Halloween.
For real, as another neurodivergent person I was like "Oh so It wasn't cool when I a kid had that stuff, but now college students doing it is cool??
Thank god I'm now it artschool and almost everyone has something "cringe" with them like, yass girl, show of those kid shows pins in your backpack!
It could be that bookbags today are of poorer quality than those made in the 1980s and 90s. I still have my original Jansport bookbag from 1995 (30 years old and still usable). I noticed todays' bags, the regular kids' bags, are of poorer quality. Some lasting only a month or so. If you want a superior quality bag, be prepared to spend over $50 for it. My original Jansport cost me under $20.
everything is worse quality now, it sucks
When I had to replace my old backpack last year I spent ages going through Amazon reviews for ones with cool designs/colours, but I gave up on buying one that way as it seemed like the quality was a real lottery and I didn't like the idea of not being able to handle something to check the stitching before buying - there were so many one-star reviews where someone showed a photo of a zip that had broken within days, or a seam that was coming apart after a week's worth of carrying a normal amount of school textbooks...
everything is just generally worse quality now, bags are usually made of plastic (or any other derivative of a polymer), or maybe it's cotton/canvas but it would be suuuper thin to cut costs, and everything would be inexplicably more than $50 for.. reasons i guess.
Even jansport isn't made the same now! I bought a jansport to take to field trips and when I have a ton of lesson planning and need all my books. It barely lasted a year.
I still have a couple of Espirit bags from the late 80’s that I used as book bags. Definitely not strong material and they got loaded but they are still kicking. I hated backpacks so I was always using crossbody or shoulder bags as book bags.
I am reassured- I grew up having a new lunch box, bag and pencil case each year in the 1980s. My mum bought cheap stuff that needed replacing. I have been feeling guilty that my child has used the same bag for four years and does not want new stuff. He has more sense than me!
Don't feel guilty for buying him quality stuff that lasts! That sounds like a good thing. Although I was a sentimental kid who would get attached to my things and didn't like replacing them. My mom was practically fighting me to get new sneakers and backpacks when mine were completely falling apart. I've since found a little more balance as an adult lol. No need to replace functional items, but it's definitely okay to let go after they've served their purpose
I've noticed that coolbags with a velcro-sealed flap seem much more prevalent than lunchboxes now, whereas in my 80s childhood you only ever really saw kids with those matching Thermos lunchbox-and-flask sets with TV characters on. Looking back, I suspect that the hinges or clasps on those things were intentionally weak, necessitating intemittent replacement .. and I guess a character that everyone loves when they start school might feel a bit babyish once we hit six or seven and then we'd be after the next thing, whereas now I see a lot of cooling lunchbags with more abstract patterns that are less likely to fall into the "oh my god, you still like Barbie/PAW Patrol??" trap.
@@bioluminescentlyunfolding5716 I still have my holly hobbie plastic lunchbox filled with photos and letters from the 1980s.
I was just feeling this, going on year three for mine and I was used to having a new backpack or lunchbox every year because I needed one… but my kids chose fairly neutral patterned bags from nicer brands and they’ve been holding up so I didn’t buy more :)
I grew up in the 80s and it was the same for me but most of my stuff was quality. Even though it lasted through the year I got an entire new supply every year. I actually expected it and would’ve be bummed if it didn’t happen. But now my kids are excited about the bare necessity of new things-notebooks, pens, and pencils. I’m grateful they don’t expect all the unnecessary extras like I did.
the best thing about back to school shopping is the discounts afterwards when the shops wanna get rid of the left over stock lmao
the mechanical pencils make sense to me as an artist, I have tons and there everywhere, one in every bag, every pencil case, one in pretty much every place I keep my art supplies. I'm always misplacing pencils so having a backup is rather useful however most people do not need that many so it seems more like that amount was brought because it seemed like a better deal in the moment.
Looking at how those were packaged in a set of like 40, which didn't appear to come with the little container of spare leads, it honestly comes across as if the manufacturers are intentionally dissuading consumers from realising how the damn things actually work. You never used to see those in "back to school" packs without a set of spare leads being included! I still use one from when I was like 20, and it's got a nice thick barrel so it handles really comfortably.
Whereas those look cheap and not made to last, or for people to even realise the lead is replaceable. I almost wonder if it comes from some perverse focus group situation where people got worried about conventional wooden pencils not being sustainable, but now you see quite a lot of recycled pencils, so it's not like making and dumping extra plastic is the only alternative...
your deep sigh when she said "5 quarters" was actually hilarious lmao
clearly she is not in school to learn lol smh
Forty year old here to say that during my school years mechanical pencils were a staple. We had 1 or 2 pencils for the whole year (years even id they still worked). If you were lucky you got Sanrio goods and those pencils would be used until hello kitty was GONE. 😂
The pencils were refillable and we carried the leads and refilled as needed. A common thing in my school was to try to have extra leads to share with friends just in case they ran out during a test or something.
I’m in grad school and rarely use printed textbooks and/or notebooks. Most teens I know just have their tablets. I’m curious to know if schools have mandatory supply lists.
Note: the teen saying “I got this or that…” Girl your MOM got that s*** for you.
Right 😂 Like I’m sure there are teens who buy their own because their parents are broke but they’re definitely not the ones buying insane amounts and doing haul videos
45 year old here: Hello Kitty stationary? Oh yes, I also loveeeeed it. It was used until I grew out of it.
On the tablets do most kids use an attached keyboard or stylo to write or type notes?
Yesss to the mechanical pencils!! I’d even feel excessive when buying the pack of 3 because I knew I’d use 2 at most during the year (I rarely lost them). I carried around both 0.7mm and 0.5mm lead even though I only had 0.5 pencils, just in case others needed lead
I'm in the same age range and had a similar experience. I had the same mechanical pencil through HS w/ the same backpack and I had the pencil through college and when I was working to jot things down when I was on the phone until it was eventually lost, not died, but lost somewhere. Refillable eraser on the mech. pencil as well. I still have my TI-83+ w/ all games on it from HS and it still works!
My kids HS list this year said "a few notebooks and folders to correspond, pencils, pens, a stylus that works on an Ipad, and a portable charging station your ipad can plug into *for days where the Ipad is not fully charged or needs extra to make it through the day. May need a calculator depending on the math class your child has*
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That was the full and complete shopping directions I received as a parent of two high schoolers. They got some notebooks w/ folders, a few pens, a few mech. pencils (3 ea.) + leads and eraser refills, stylus, water bottle when it went on sale, and a planner for school and activities. Done. No hauls. No mandatory supply lists and you don't know which teachers will say you need a notebook and folder or which will say they don't expect you to take notes on paper. It's really up to chance, the teacher, the year of school, etc. Even some that say it won't barely have you take any notes. Others like math just need you to have enough scratch paper to work out equations and follow your work.
Man, I grew up middle class and my mom has always valued both school and looking "put together," which is to say she didn't skimp on getting my sister and I back-to-school stuff. I remember thinking when I was a kid that I was getting a LOT (for which I was grateful). But the couple of new outfits, shoes, folders, binders, notebooks, pens, etc. that we got every fall doesn't hold a CANDLE to the insane hauls that are now happening. It's just absurd!!
My mom bought me new clothes but I have seen videos where they are 100 jeans. My mom spent 25 if I wanted cooler jeans I had to pay the difference. My daughter still looks at resale shops for new clothes.
ik this isn’t realistic for many students, but getting an ipad before my first semester of college has saved me from having to buy notebooks and stationary. i did buy a bunch of that at the beginning of my first semester, and then one of my classmates told me you could take notes on the ipad and now i hardly use any of it. i did buy 3 mechanical pencils during spring 2024 semester, but at that point it had been like 2.5 years since i last bought stationary and if i didn’t have an ipad, i would realistically be buying new school supplies every semester!
edit (just to add more thoughts): about the backpack thing! i also don’t understand buying a backpack EVERY school year! i’ve been using the same one since 2021 and i won’t be buying a new one unless the one i have breaks to the point it’s nonfunctional. even when i was in grade school, i was getting a new backpack like every FEW school years (i liked getting ones with whatever vera bradley patterns i really liked at the time), but NEVER once a year; quite absurd if you ask me…
I had undiagnosed ADHD and was so frustrated with forgetting xyz notebook in college- I bought an IPad and never lost my notes again 😂 plus my backpack is 1000 times lighter. The notes thing is different for everyone, so I understand if people still want the paper feel of it. I’ve noticed I just need to do the ACT of writing with a stylus for it to register in my brain for school.
There is also the issue of the tempting technology aspect of the iPad- DO NOT watch RUclips on it, DO NOT download your streaming platform onto it, DO NOT use social media on it. I’ve basically kid-proofed my iPad in my brain so it’s for *study* and *work* only lol. It really helps me focus.
I’ve been using the same backpack since 2019, there’s no reason to buy a new backpack each year unless the backpack is so poorly constructed which at that point you should buy a better constructed backpack.
I'm nearly 33 now and still have one of my high school backpacks that hasn't fallen apart yet and I use it for overnight trips and things like that. Feels unnecessary to get a new backpack every single year.
I got my wife on the iPad train for note taking. She just had to find a nice note taking app before she agreed to getting it. Besides, she loves making art and will use it for that after schooling is done!
Backpacks are only worth buying if lile you go from elementary to middle fo high school whete you might get heavier bigger vooks or have to carry lunch
Definitely agree with the ipad! Before I got one for college, I used to print out lecture notes but I didn’t need to waste paper with the ipad and goodnotes. It’s super useful if you have to do a ton of word problems and calculations for schoolwork.
I’ve had one Dakine backpack which I used for 8 years and it’s still in great condition.
Back in the early 2000s, as a HS Freshman, I got a PowerPuff Girls backpack, and I graduated as a Senior with that backpack 😅
Then, for college in 2004 I bought a polka dot Jansport backpack (brown and teal, baby) and 20 years later it is still what I use as my carryon for plane travel.
Those Jansport backpacks were amazing, not sure if they have the same quality now.
I love this so much!!
Oh my gosh me too!!!! I’m Canadian so we don’t have junior & senior. But I went into grade 10 with my PowerPuff Girl back pack, I collected pins and had them go down the front straps I had it until the end of grade 12 when I graduated in 2003. Such fond memories. I also have small feet I wear size 3 in big kids at age 38 so I also wore PowerPuff Girl shoes in high-school 🤣🥰
Same! My girls and I would flex that we had the same shoes and backpack through the years. We would just hang new charms or write stuff on that backpack; the worn out look was a badge of honor.
I had a school uniform and we used those sturdy leather mary janes, again we flexed that they made it through our 4 years of high school. 🔥
Jan sport is a great brand
Could you discuss how stores push the next two seasons on us to influence spending habits? It’s something that gets me every time. For example carters is already pushing Christmas clothing and pulling the “low in stock!!! Buy soon!!!” on brand new stuff that even still has the “sneak peek” label.
Yes! It is part of never living in the present moment. It has consequences on our mental health, IMO.
This frustrates me so much, especially because there's a substantial part of each season when it's actually really hard to buy items you need for right then because the next season's stuff has filled the shops. It gets especially ridiculous now that the first half of autumn is as hot as summer in some places, or when spring is slow to arrive and you realise you could use another set of thermals to keep up with the laundry cycle, but now there's not a thermal to be seen and the shops are all, "Have you seen our new spring blouse in eight colours??" It's like, let us focus on the actual environmental conditions we have right now!
It's also related to how the shops arbitrarily design complete new collections of clothing and homewares not just each year, but each season: they get four chances a year to persuade us we need new things whether we do or not, and I'm ashamed that it works so well on me but I'm really trying to pause and go, "This is nice, and it's abstractly lovely that someone came up with that, but actually the one I have works fine."
Yes, please!! Because all of this “next-seasoning” is responsible for overconsumption or literal FOMO for those of us who have kids that grow quickly. I’m kinda forced to buy right now for November’s cool weather AND for a potential growth spurt in February. Because if I wait, pickings will be slim by the time I return for the next size up. Smh
like seeing Halloween stuff in July or back to school stuff in the same month
I'm not a student and haven't been one for years but i absolutely love stationery and use it almost every day. I love writing down stuff, making lists, budgeting. But i am also not allowing myself to go crazy with buying extra stationery when i don't need it. You can love something without buying more constantly.
When I went through elementary and middle school, we were always sent a back to school list for our teacher/grade/subject. These items were required to buy for every single student, though it was rare to always use them all. This was well before TikTok and social media, but it did not mean it was not happening. My mom would just buy the items for me as she thought and that was it. I had no idea there was such an emotional attachment to this type of shopping when I was that age ... but younger and younger people are viewing and producing content.
These hauls aren’t new either!! They been on RUclips way before tik tok was a thing. She’s been out of school for awhile so she may remember the supply list
@@Jessica.Shawnte I think I just was not watching RUclips regularly yet when those hauls were a thing, but I do remember giveaways and such that were sort of similar.
Loved your point about the 40-pack of mechanical pencils. Some supplies do have a shelf life: highlighters go dry, pens get weird with ink flow, notebooks get crumpled and paper changes with humidity, etc. Reusing supplies from the previous year is crucial, but so is not buying too much!
and yet i switched from regular pens to fountain and just yesterday sold muji pens from 2019 that work fine lol. if left capped and unused, stuff tends to last pretty well
My mechanical pencils were 2- or 3-pack. May have repurchased a few times, and typically just had to buy lead refills. Other than that, I had a few pens and wooden pencils that I might lend or lose over time. Probably had the same eraser for most of college
@@amandak.4246lol. I found some old fountain pens at home. They just needed a bit of water into the cartridge and nib to function again. Plus you can buy cool ink colors and write with it.
The mechanical pencils don't hold up very well to being refilled and they have so many different sizes of lead. It can become complicated to be the type of person who refills them with lead instead of just disposes of them. It is kind of like pen culture. Some pens have cheap bodies and are meant to be disposed of, whereas some pens have expensive bodies and are meant to be refilled. It is very much the same with mechanical pencils
@@hcf4kd1992 i had some cheap and considered disposable mechanical pencils. But they also came with a box of refill leads. I just remembered what size they listed usually 0.5 or 0.7 and bought more leads that size. But yeah.. just buy a couple of decent quality ones and use those.
Literally my favorite channel now because I can just put on a 45 minute vid of shawna talking while I clean my apartment. Girl thanks for your channel, both so entertaining and helpful, and the PERFECT background sound for cleaning or bedtime
These videos are like exposure therapy to me 😂 I can watch the satisfying content and then be immediately reminded why it’s bad so I don’t go out and follow a bunch of these creators or fill up my cart. Love it
Haha, you totally ARE my dish buddy! I listen to your videos while I’m doing dishes or food prepping or vacuuming, lol. Also while I’m crocheting 🙂 on the topic of school supplies, I’ll buy some notebooks now and again for self-guided study at home, and I have a whole system for my pens (found a brand I like so I buy ink refills and only change out the barrels when they don’t thread anymore due to wear and tear). I don’t know how anyone can ever go through a 40pack of mechanical pencils-I’m still working on two boxes of 12x Ticonderoga pencils I bought six or more years ago 😂
Thank you for your thoughtful analysis and commentary on consumption related topics! I had already started at the beginning of this year to consciously turn around my wasteful spending habits, but finding your channel has helped keep me in that mindset ♥️
so honoured to be your dish buddy 😊 I too am still working through a pack of mechanical pencils I bought 4 years ago so I feel you on that
I bought my 9 year old a simple navy blue Jansport backpack in hopes he can use it til highschool 😂
As the mother of three (16, 14, 6) I’ve noticed over the years that the huge school supplies lists from the school can cause a lot of overconsumption too. Specific notebooks (like “red 3 subject from XYZ brand”) don’t get thoroughly used throughout the school year and then the next year another teacher requires another color or configuration. Same with index cards - Spanish teacher requires the tiny ones but next year, math teacher requires full size. Doing a better job at Standardizing the supplies from year to year would go a long way.
this is an excellent point! I didn't mention much from elementary age kids because I saw this the most in middle/elementary. School supply lists are new to me and I didn't have this growing up. Parents and kids just brought what they could. My school used report covers for all the subjects for all the grades and the 'expectation' was you brought a certain amount (3,5 i can't remember) with loose leaf paper so no matter where people shopped you could buy stuff that everyone else had. This I learned is not so common anymore and I have no idea what it's like to have kids come home with supply lists or if they serve kids and classrooms better than not having a list. I did see some videos where parents scoffed at the list or thought it was crazy but then parents and teachers in the comments were like NOPE. Lists are a must. And I just don't know 😅 It seems like when lists exist some kind of standard for a school would be helpful for parents
@@shawnaripariit’s definitely a fairly new thing. I’m 44 and we never had supply lists from the school. Occasionally, as we approached middle/high school, a teacher might require a certain color folder, brand name calculator, or a specific red pen. But these lists are out of control. Even a list item of “30 Ticonderoga pencils” means I have to buy two 24-packs instead of one.
@@TheSharna23 Same! I never got lists for school! That really is wild for a teacher to request specific brands! Ticonderoga pencils are more than double the price of other pencil brands (I know they are good pencils but still $$). Especially when you have multiple kids to shop for, that difference really adds up. I would rather spend that extra money on a fun little extra item that kids pick out (like a fun eraser or whatnot). It also makes it very isolating for a kid who has the store brand and other kids all have the same name brand. Why not just say pencils and let everyone pick out their own?
@@KS-ev2zu the reason is because most classrooms have gone to community supplies. So each child brings 30 of the exact same pencil, and they all go into one classroom pencil bin. Same with crayola crayons. That takes care of the kid who didn’t/couldn’t get the pencils. And I get it, but it’s a lot to manage every school year. It shouldn’t matter if my child has a composition book or spiral notebook. Brand names shouldn’t matter.
@@TheSharna23 Yes exactly!
Social media has definitely changed the game since I was in school, but I used the same nylon/fabric Jansport backpack from 4th grade (2002) up until I left university in 2015. I still have it in storage just in case I ever need a spare backpack. I always feel like part of the problem is that kids disrespect their personal belongings too much to reuse them, but now tiktok and other apps have incentivized the hauls and overspending for content purposes...what a world.
Yeah, we were always being marketed to at this time of year, but it really feels like the tail is wagging the dog with RUclips and Tiktok - and I say that as someone who loves to look at the new stationery in the shops this time of year, even though I'm really trying to use up what's in the house...
It might be seen more on social media now but this was happening 20 years ago to. Most of my class mates in elementary school got new backpacks every year. A handful of us had llbean or jansport ones so they lasted longer than a year. But a lot of the children's character themed backpacks started to fall by the end of the year
Nope, it's mostly that more lower quality bags are made now, most of my backpacks have been lasting only 1-2 years
For me growing up poor back to school time was always really hard. Instead of department stores we went to thrift shops and instead of new we reused last years. The thought of 10 year old me getting to do a back to school haul now THRILLING!
im not the most minimalistic person but whats the deal with buying 40 mechanical pencils for a year?? do they just throw the pencil away after a week?? i spent my entire hs with like 2 pencils, 1 of which i still use(its been 6+ years). it was expensive but totally worth it because its so durable. i understand losing them im really forgetful and lose stuff all the time but even im not 40 pencils a year forgetful.
Ikr, especially when a lot of the mechanical pencils were the same colour. like they can just buy lead to refill it
I'm pretty sure those packages are made for schools, why someone would need that amount of repeating items that themselves use refills to work.
I bought a 12 pack of mechanical pencils 4 years ago, truly no idea why, and I haven't finished any of the lead in the first 3-4 I busted out and I was in school at the time.
Kids steal mechanical pencils
Kids lose them, they give them to their friends I’d they need one, they are disposable. Use the lead it’s gone it gets thrown out.
Growing up, my mom used to have a small box of extra supplies and we could switch out what we had for those ones each year so they seemed new.
Just want to say thank you for your channel :) this back to school year due to your videos I have not bought a singe thing as I realized juts how much I have accumulated through the years. Thank you ❤️
so glad to hear that my channel has been helpful 💕
I was born in 1950. It's amazing that all the children throughout the country managed to attend school without all of this junk during my school years!
Even in high school a purse was all I carried and that had a few tampax, comb, lipstick and pens and pencils. No one had aspirin, mouth wash, facial spray, etc. etc.
Our books and notebooks were carried in our arms and kept in our lockers unless used in a specific class or taken home for homework. No one had a backpack! It would have been laughed at and would never have even been considered! And yes, many of us were in sports, band, or extra curricular activities but that didn't mean we carried half our house with us to take part in these things! LOL!
In grade school we had a school bag - kind of a small satchel and a lunch box or brown paper bag for lunch. We had a few pencils, an eraser, and maybe two notebooks or just loose lined paper. Later in higher grades we had a hard bound spiral notebook to hold loose lined paper. And it had colored dividers. We had the basics and not a whole lot of extra stuff. And, strangely enough, everyone managed to learn and progress!!
I look at these hauls and wonder what is wrong with these parents spending this kind of money on stuff that will be lost or not used? And it's just soooo much!! Are these people wealthy? Or did the girl with the $400 plus pile of "necessities" work all summer at Burger King to squander her money on all that stuff she will forget about within a week? This is completely mind boggling and ludicrous!
I was born in the 90s and while having a backpack was crucial due to needing more stuff (and lockers not being an option) I don't see the need of half a bathrooms worth of beauty products 😂. All I ever had other than school stuff in my bag was like pads Mabey some candy here and there and occasionally my phone (for calling my mom after school) we weren't allowed to use it in class
Also the large spiral notebook your describing I think is called a binder and I loved those things
@@garmtpug I will say I think having a strong bag to reuse throughout the years is really helpful. Especially for things like pens which drop easily
That last clothing haul blew my mind. I can't imagine spending that much for myself as an adult. I would never be able to afford it. She obviously comes from money and needs a level set. Unfortunately, she knows it not normal and is insecure by it.
When someone shows off their stuff it's not necessary that they have a rich background. Maybe her parents have to pay for the creditcard debt for the rest of the year... don't belive what you see on social media.
What seemed to make me buy new stuff for my daughter was that i felt guilty that other ppl would be getting new things, and she wouldn't.
I did go to a thrift for her "new" clothes which saved me a ton of money, but i definitely feel like i was guilted into buying more rather than nessecity.
That used to be an issue at my secondary school. We had fancy blazers, and school colours had to be on certain items, so you couldn't just buy generic socks/scarf/tie, but had to go to listed suppliers...
Although the school held a secondhand uniform fair annually, parents of incoming first years often felt compelled to buy their kid everything brand new from the local uniform shop, which must've made a fortune every August... to this day I'm convinced I never actually wore the official school scarf; it would've been just one more thing to keep track of while traipsing around eight different classrooms a day. But I had a single mum, and I think parents like her especially felt the pressure to buy everything new so we wouldn't stand out in what was already a very conservative and snobby small town.
But as kids, I'm not sure we'd have noticed if a classmate's blazer was secondhand. Nobody's new (or "new to them") blazer actually fitted well, due to the near-universal practice of parents going, "Bloody expensive; I'll get it a bit big and s/he can grow into it..."
I caught myself last night looking at backpacks and lunchboxes, and I’m nearly 30 years old with a perfectly nice work bag and a break room with a fridge. These beginning of the school year refresh urges run deep 😅
i mean lunchboxes are definitely a need if you wanna pack your own food, but nothing too excessive
@@sollerona I just bring sandwich ingredients in a reusable grocery bag 🤷♀️
Something I do is I got a couple of three ring binders a few years ago that I just put new loose leaf in. They’re completely customizable. You can put a new design on them by putting a picture in the front sleeve, you can put in lined or graph paper, and it’s easy to reuse whatever you didn’t need last year!
i LOVED decorating my binders!!!! front and back sleeves, and the spine!
My grandmother would have us “shop” the office closet where she kept all the excess supplies and leftover supplies from previous years that were in usable condition and check off what we already had before going to the store during back to school. If we wanted anything that wasn’t on the list, or that we already had but wanted a different one we had to buy it ourselves with our allowance or birthday money because she wasn’t in the business of wasting money on things we already had.
By the time I got to college I had transitioned to using a laptop because I am significantly faster and more accurate typing than writing by hand. I got my desire for supplies out by setting up digital notebooks and setting colors, fonts and heading styles and making each one unique to that subject. Having a notebook was nice to accompany for drawing things out when I needed to, but that one notebook was more than enough for all my classes and other stuff. It made it way easy to go back through while studying and recreate them digitally when I had time. I found this method could give that same feeling of having something new without having to buy or waste anything.
I have collected *years* of old supplies from childhood back-to-school trips, gifts, and most importantly, LOST school supplies I find left on the ground or in classrooms. I'm in college now and the hoard is definitely paying off; the only thing I've bought in the last 2 years is a new notebook after I ran out of paper (though this year I'm going to try typing all my notes in notion, or as much of them as I can). All the colorful/aesthetic tiktoks are definitely tempting though, especially when you use a lot of crusty, ancient, secondhand supplies. They are practically engineering dissatisfaction!
The only thing I need are black sharpies…..I destroy black sharpies 🤣
I'm an artist and my hack is to put my art empties in a big see through jar. I really get joy and satisfaction looking at that jar and putting in a new pencil stub that I've used up or empty paint tubes. I love a good "use what you already have" challenge.
I do the same with stationary and notebooks.
To make something feel new or exciting, things sometimes just need a quick clean or you can customize your old things. Add stickers you already have, draw a nice quote on your notebooks or colour swatch your pens 🙂
As much as I luv looking at stationary and random crap, after like 6th grade, all I ever needed was some pens/pencils, a single highlighter, loose paper, and maybe some folders or a binder to put everything. Anything else I just bought as needed or 9/10 times I could borrow from a teacher or someone else. I cringe looking back at my youth realizing that a few things could have lasted me like all of middle/high school. But for no reason at all I’d always get new things every year 😩. We really need to teach kids about taking care of their stuff and making it last as long as possible.
I love school supplies and definitely have the urge to get stuff, even though I'm in grad school and primarily use my laptop. So my way around satisfying that urge is I like to wait till the school supplies go on clearance, I have a laundry basket under my bed and I stash them there to donate to my works annual stuff the bus event to distribute school supplies to kids that need it. It's not perfect but it does have an end benefit besides useless consumption
The last one is shocking .
I feel sorry for the young ones looking up to her feeling bad & comparing themselves.
me too and this girl (and the other one with the long straight black hair) are probably the most popular as well. it's insane
@@ChessieChess it’s sad. I feel for them.
I used to have to get a new backpack every year for school because the quality of them was so shit that they fell apart after like two months and were hanging by a thread at the end of the year.
Yeah the zippers on mine would always have a problem and they bags would look dirty by the end of the year.
I can say that both of my boys, from about grade 4 through high school, NEEDED a new backpack each year! They were dirty, gross, ripped, smelled like gym clothes, the straps no longer worked, and more. The old backpacks, even if washed and cleaned and sewn, had no life left! My daughter kept the same backpack, water bottle, and lunch box for years!
I go through a lot of stationery but I'm also one of those people who has a problem with it, so I do *try* to organize my yearly needs around big sales like Back to School or Black Friday.
When I was a kid, I didn't get new things unless what I had was worn out/used up.
Adding little details or even a new coat of paint might help some things like book bags, or pencil cases feel new. My grandmother tried to make it seem like I wasn't doing enough for my daughter because I didn't wanna get her new bookbags every year. She currently has four and one of them is good for when she's a teenager, so I realistically never have to buy one ever again. The only reason I might buy my daughter a new book bag is if she wants something VERY specific.
My mom is already doing this to my kid. Three backpacks so far, maybe four. How old is she do you ask? 22months 🤦♀️
@@Wanda-v4b
What? My daughter is gonna be seven in three days. She has four backpacks and I think THAT'S excessive.
That is a lot of notebooks for a 3rd grader😬
25:33 I really resonated with this portion of the video. Growing up I think I really only got new stuff at the beginning of the school year, Xmas and my birthday. So I really got used to buying all new stuff for each school year. I have completely revamped my mindset with my kids. I don't go crazy buying super expensive supplies because they share supplies and my kids were perfectly happy using their backpacks and lunchboxes from last year especially their backpacks because they were gifted and they loved them. It has been such a relief not worrying about doing a crazy haul of new stuff for 1 year.
i sometimes wonder if the people who constantly buy new stuff ever, for once, think about where their things end up when they eventually don't need them. i'd love to see a thought process that isn't "i can do what i want with my money" or some such. like just sit with me and i'll ask you "why" and "and then what" and we will probably reach no conclusion but i really wanna hear your mental gymnastics
40 mechanical pencils is wild. The amount of plastic just for ONE person it's crazy
I use the same one for years and i only replace it when it's so destroyed I can't write with it anymore
We would buy the bulk pack and split it between multiple kids. But even though they are reusable and you can theoretically use them for years that didn't match with reality in middle school and high school. Pencils got borrowed, they got broken, accidentally left in a bus or classroom.
I mean she could use those mechanical pens until she graduates high school and college 😂
I don't even know why most people need mechanical pencils. I bought a pack of wooden ones a few years ago (I do a lot of drawing) and I still have most of the pack, and I still have quite a few other pencils that I've got with stationary packs, art packs, etc... I don't need to buy any more for a long time.
@@craftyhobbit7623I like mechanical pencils since they’re more precise which is handy for the type of art I do.
I am already in my senior year and I just literally only have my laptop and a notebook, a bunch of pens (red and black and not even inside a pouch or case, its just there), and alcohol in my bag. I only watch haul videos to appreciate how much I save. You don't need a haul, you need funds for your thesis since its mind blowing how much it costs.
I love back to school content and buy stationery like a maniac and personally these videos stop me from wanting to impulsively buy new stuff, but also gives me the motivation to use my old supplies so I can feel better about bringing new supplies in.
I love spreading laundry or cleaning to your videos, but currently you saved my sanity as I am in a hospital because my 3 month old daughter is sick with covid. She will only sleep if I hold her in my arms and walk and your videos in my earbuds havw helped me focus on that and keep myself occupied while i do that, so thank you so much :)
I’m so sorry to hear. I’m praying this passes quickly and she feels better. Stay strong.
I'm glad to accompany you and I'm so sorry to hear about your daughter. Wishing both of you the best in this time 💕
@@princessgemz271 Thank you, she's already much better then yesterday, when she got admitted, so hopes are that we go home tomorrow :)
@@shawnaripari Thank you! Also thia video hit really close to home because both me and my boyfriend are students and I have the urge ri buy cool back to uni stuff, but that's not the priority when I have a baby, so i lived vicariously through these videos you showed! (although somw of them are outrageous... the 40 mechanical pencils really got to me... I've had the same one since sixth grade)
Hope she Feels better soon 🫶🏾
I recently saw a video of a student doing school floor loot hunting, and rating all of the itmes difficult rarities, giving them stats etc. This would be an awesome new tiktok trend because it adds exitment and value to previously unwanted items.
Before I watch, I just had to comment and say I'm about to watch this while editing a no-buy back-to-school "haul" I managed to do from digging around in drawers at home 😅
omg I love that!!
I know plenty of people shared helpful tips already but I just want to give mine also: if you feel bored of your bag or your pencil case or pouch etc. I love having little charms or pins to decorate them with. Personalization is such a fun way to revamp something you already own and since I've gotten into crochet recently I can even make my own little charms. I even have a little sprout for the top of my headphones that my mom made for me and I think it's adorable. It's such a simple way of showing your personality and interests without having to buy a whole new bag. I hope this helps someone! Much love
My flex is that I’ve had the same backpack since 7th grade - and I am 25 😂 And it’s still in good condition!
I wish that at the end of these back-to-school haul videos, they would show the haulers dropping the items off at a food bank!
Through all the rounds of school me and my siblings went thru, we have amassed a lot of stationary (checking off everything in the yearly back to school lists......(way too much unused crap in those)), esp ones that are cheap and "unaesthetic". Although I like my fancy pastel highlights, I've made an effort to use up the cheap old neon brick highlighters from years ago. its really satisfying to get it used up!
my tried and true throughout all of middle and high school was a few notebooks that functioned more like mini binders (latching rings on the ends), reinforced ruled paper, and a couple papermate clearpoints with some lead refills. didn't have to replace any of that for my whole time there and just generally felt better about waste because of it! i cleaned up and decorated the notebook covers each year, i never had to throw out a notebook full of empty pages at the end of the year, and i saved soooososo much time and money.
honestly, bringing all of those new supplies to school wears into them so quickly and it just makes me sad to see something so aesthetically pleasing get so icky. once it gets to that point, you realize how flawed a lot of the technical aspects of the designs are, too. i'm a professional artist and love me some cute stationary, but ohhhh my gosh.
also, laundry buddy here! love listening to your videos while i unwind after work
We are really big on buying in a basic simple, solid color and then you can customize. Like pick a new patch or pin every year to add or trade with friends. They have had the same back packs for years and have traded or gotten as gifts from friends and family. Their friends look forward to swapping pins before school starts every year and it’s so fun!
Some of them have even swapped back packs because kid’s tastes can change. And whatever your friend has is always exciting 😅
We also invested in Pack-It lunch bags when they each started school that very first year. Don’t need to buy or keep track of ice packs because the lunch bag is the ice pack. They’ve stood up to years of taking them camping, day trips, and kids who are rough in their stuff
I'm homeschooled and now graduating, and I kinda wish I got to be in school for the trading environment. I have a mini backpack I use as a sensory regulation kit (I'm autistic) and I have some cool pins on it. But I'm not even in an environment where I would be seen as cool for it...
@@birdofthegrape I know all of my kids love their pins and it’s what we get when we travel if they want a souvenir. We have a couple of neighbors and family members who also homeschool and our kids trade with them too. I’m pretty sure most of them don’t even have a backpack, but they still love them 😆
Right before fifth grade, my grandfather took me to get a new backpack for school. I really liked this black Swiss Gear bag, and I remember him happily grabbing it because “it’ll last you a lifetime”. I just started my senior year of high school and I’m still using that bag. I bought a new pencil case, pens, and highlighters right before tenth grade and I still use all of them now. Every time I pick up my red and blue pen I think about all the world history notes I took with them, and every time I grab my bag I get to think about how far I’ve come with it. I grab my post it notes and think back to reading East of Eden over the summer for my junior year English class. It can be fun to get new stuff, but I also think there’s something nice about having a history with the stuff you use.
"The cut of these shorts are so cute."
Stay in school, babes. For a long, long time.
As someone who is from eastern Europe, I was confused when I started to watch supplies hauls and I saw that people were buying 40 mechanical pencils from Bic for 1 school year. I thought that you could not find led or something, but then I was just like "do they know they can keep using them with even better led?". And I get that you can lose some or they can get stolen, but I still have the same 2 mechanical pens that I got in middle school and now I'm in college. I did get one pack of 5 Bic mechanical pencils in high school for when someone asks for one, and surprise I still have 4 of them. So I'm starting to think what you just said, it's easier for them to just throw them when they run out of led then to buy more lad and this is just disappointing.
Open stock art supplies are great for getting only the colors that you use. You can choose just one or two colors. Lots of bookstores, craft stores, and art supply stores sell open stock highlighters, pens, etc. It’s usually a little pricier per item than buying a big pack but it’s actually more economical than buying a bunch of colors you won’t use
For our gym you needed a whole ass extra set of clothing + shoes and they demanded you always have a back up water bottle 😂
So funny because we only ever hot through half of the firdt water bottle.
I wore a uniform and another separate gym uniform in Puerto Rico where it’s hot Af. After gym class We showered slapped some Lady Speed stick, slick back the hair on a ponytail and put our regular uniform back on. We were so HAPPY.
We had to buy our gym uniform through the school so everyone had the same black shorts and grey shirt. Muddle schools and high school used the same one so I had that thing for awhile
I still have and use my backpack from 1993, good choices last a long time!
I remember the feeling of shock when I found out my only child friend got a new backpack every year
Something that really confuses me is the 50 packs of mechanical pencils, i get like a few but isnt the whole point that you buy refills for them? if youre going to get 50 why not just get regular wood ones? itd be cheaper, for one thing
i'd love to see at least one person going "i bought these and my friends and i will share this one pack cause that was cheaper and we can be cute together" but i guess that won't happen :')
I do think that siblings often do just that-share a bunch of supplies! I hope they do!
I still have a few mechanical pencils from high school, and one or two from middle school. All of them have at least 1 stick of lead.
It's stupid to buy that many, I don't think I've used even 20 mechanicals in 6 years of school
I like to do art and I usually get those packs I can tell you from experience those mechanical pencils are cheaply made and can and are easily brokenable am long out of school but there worth the bucks if your careful with them
This is interesting to me because back in the 90s and 2000, where I am from, in terms of supplies we always HAD to buy a lot of new stuff every single school year.Binders weren't allowed and every single subject demanded a brand new separate notebook for class and a notebook for homework. You would get shouted at for trying to use a notebook for all the subjects, no matter how little some teachers had you write in class. Since we didn't have lockers, we had to carry it all to school , so changing backpack even tru the school year happened often since the sheer weight of notebooks would rip it apart pretty quick, unless the family afforded those really pricy sturdy backpacks. Pencases didn't last long either since fountain pens liked exploding in them every so often.
It's a bit funny that now a lot of people can chose to carry less to school but still buy too much. haha
Prepare for school by reading over the summer, not by buying crap.
Crap that’s on the supply list?
@@Jessica.Shawnte, a lot of the stuff in these hauls isn’t on supply lists. If it’s needed then it’s not crap. 40 mechanical pencils for one person and a whole new wardrobe is crap.
Lol yikes
@@katemiller7874 how is reading yikes...
when i was in middle school 10+ years ago, vera bradley lunchbags were THE thing to have. now as a working adult it is still my lunchbag :”-)
Don’t they sell more led to refill your mechanical pencil anymore?
they certainly do
I have 6 kids who lose and break mechanical pencils constantly but short of a family my size I totally agree 40 pencils is nuts! The only thing I will say is that our school does require brand new of the entire list as they pool supplies and do not keep them to one specific child. They are also VERY specific about what to get down to what brand of pen /pencil/ highlighter/ glue brand. It's insane.
I miss the days when kids spent .50 cents on paper from Walmart and $1.00 folders that lasted years and years. Thank god I grew up poor and understand the value of buying what you will use and being grateful for the items I have, even if they are cheap.
I’m a teacher and this is so helpful. Each idea you presented made a memory of a thing pop into my head that I already have and only need to clean or mend.
There's a RUclipsr urmomsushi who had a crazy $8000 back to school haul or something, when she got called out all her kid fans defended her with "it's ok for her to overconsume because she earned that money herself" as if that's any excuse 😭 and then she made herself the victim. So unnecessary and wasteful, especially because she's known to sell the things she buys for these videos on vinted. These youtubers need to do better, it's so wasteful.
nooooooooooo
late reply but, urmomsushi is a great example of problematic overconsumption. she also portrays a terrible attitude consistently to her viewers. i hardly see anyone talk about it, but i would consistently see her videos in my recommended, so i gave it a chance, and found it absolutely unbearable how reckless she was with her spending habits, as well as her tone and behavior in general. she takes 0 accountability, and i can already see how this will continue the cycle of overconsumption.
@@rustie6629 yeah she's incredibly rude and defensive when people call her out but makes sense she's young and has a massive ego 🤷♀️hopefully she'll grow out of it because she's def never gonna listen if u aren't kissing her ass
I'm a new watcher, but already your content is so useful for me. I don't watch restocking/haul content, but I do have a bit of an issue with wanting that sweet seratonin hit from buying something new, while also needing and craving organization. So I'm working on myself to buy less (though in fairness I'm nowhere near these levels) and not feel that unnecessary FOMO. Your videos are a nice way of grounding oneself and rethink what you really need. Thank you!
As a college student, i refuse to get a new backpack, or to use disposable forks spoons, straws, plates etc. In already consuming enough plastic so id rather save where i can. As for stationary, i am an art major, so unfortunately i feel like im constantly buying for classes. Ugh. But i try my best where i can.
I had all boys. I tried to make them look presentable, but they could not have cared less what they wore or about their supplies. Backpacks were quite literally destroyed almost every year and by the second month of school the lunchboxes were lost. Sooo, eventually lunch was taken in a grocery bag. Boys are a hot mess. If I packed something in a Tupperware dish for lunch half the time they would accidentally throw away my container. I had to put everything in disposable zip lock baggies in grocery bags 😅
ngl it just sounds you didn't teach your sons to respect belongings if they would throw out dishes, not a gender problem
In college, I could use like five pencils for three years. In high school and below, everyone took them and I lost them. 😭
That one kid buying over 700 bucks of supplies unironically scared me. Does she value all of these items for how much they cost? I just hope she won't be irresponsible once she starts earning her own money. It just seems very likely to happen if she was raised in a lavish lifestyle.
I literally have not bought a single thing for back to school. I use my partner's jansport backpack from, like, 2008. Some kid on campus hurt my feelings by calling it vintage. 🤣
omg 2008 is vintage I'm crying
@shawnaripari I did too 🤣
Former teacher - regarding the emergency kits-most of this stuff becomes an excuse for distraction for entire groups of students as they pass it around and use it during instruction/work time instead of listening and working! I can’t count the number of times I had to tell girls to stop brushing hair, doing makeup or passing around lotion during class. On top of that, students are spraying their body sprays to the point of creating headaches and nausea to myself and other students.
I heard my coworker today discussing going back to school shopping for her 11 year old sons. They still get the lists of required supplies they need to bring. They were asked to get something like 24 mechanical pencils each (so 48 total for their household). They were then asked to provide those pencils to the teacher who would put them in a bank of sorts and provide to students as needed. And then the end of the year she would divvy them up and pass the remainder back to all the students to take home. This leaves my coworker with an excess of pencils each year which she was frustrated with since she has 4 children in school currently.
There's absolutely no way that's mandatory. She could just refuse to buy them, especially if her kids have an excess at home
@zvezdoblyat Well that's what she was led to believe by her teacher/school.
in the USA, or at least where I live, teachers always request hundreds of dollars worth of supplies from the children or for that one child. Looking for a specific designs can sometimes come naturally but are not "necessary". growing up all my teachers asked us to get color coded folders, binders, notebooks, and flashcards ALL for EACH class. if you did not bring in for example a yellow notebook with a matching yellow folder, green binder with green pouch, etc., teachers would send a complaint and low grade reduction to the students' parents. getting a 20 pack of pencils, 10+ different colored folders and random colored coded junk, bookmarks, crayons, colored pencils, sticky notes, paint, erasers, etc. was always my first homework assignment in school. it's not common in America to only bring a few notebooks, pencils, and bags for your first day.
29:09 I’m horrified. Like….speechless.
38:37 it’s not irony if it’s true though…
I was literally just dealing with this. I have 3 kids, and I feel like I HAVE to buy them brand new pencils, colored pencils, highlighters etc every year but then I'm left with a surplus of half used ones that idk what to do with. So this year I decided that I will take the best of our used stuff and send that with them with a few new things and keep worn stuff for home use
I find it insane how much school stationery is required in USA.... Back home you need notebooks and a fountain pen, maybe some of those geometey thingies. Calculators are a no. You reveive all the books you'll need from school and if youre missing one, then you have to share with another person.
Given that technology is so widely used nowadays, many schools dont mind you having an ipad or tablet tk take notes on. You can also find many books online too, sure, you have to become a 'pirate' to get them, but they are there. I never spent money in uni for books, i went the pirate route. No wat in hell im paying 150£ for a book that's revised every year😅
We used pdfs growing up in indya in early 2000s...printed them out. For highschool Esp supplement books. Those printouts were often handed over to other kids or whoever needed ofc there were kids who bought books each year and Wouldn't take a single pdf or hand outs.
In uni in us I had literally used sites for books as You 😊...'pirate' . Who can buy those and libraries had certain number of copies
I've had my backpack for 5 years now, it got me through 4 years of university and now I use it as a work bag 🙃
oh your make-up is stunning today!
the way i get excited for school is to plan lunches I'm going to make for a week then default to the same thing for the rest of the year haha
Can you do a poll after this video on how many people went and bought stationary items within 24 hours of watching this video? Just out of curiosity, because I could feel myself getting triggered 🐛
it's ok to skip the video if you find it triggering!
@@shawnaripari I'm at the point where I find it valuable to face my triggers instead of avoiding them! I need to actively practice what I've learned (:
I was more curious from a research perspective about the poll!
i am really really tempted not gonna lie 😭
@Aiyume7 don't do it, u got this!
@@NebelungFlower ahahahha i won't, i got a house that needs a lot of fixing so no hobbies for me for a while 😂😭
The school where my kids go donated back packs, coats, and boots. It was a huge blessing. It’s really acceptable to get donated items & sometimes these items were pre used