School supplies - Share your cheap (online) supplier

[AnyDream]

I don't mind the sharing of supplies, subsidising a few pencils and so on for my children's classmates is no biggie. My boys have never run out of stuff even though the pencils in the class rooms are pretty stumpy by the end of the year.

Yeah, but when your child is trying to write in an unlined book (because the extras you sent with lines in have all been used) and only 1 out of 3 of their maths books have been graph paper ones, that's a bit ripe. Especially when you've stood in the classroom and witnessed another child using your lovingly covered and labelled books with your child's name scratched out .

ETA - Trill - yes, we were living in an above-average income area (demographically) but I know there was a "This is a public school therefore it should be FREE" mentality which meant that parents wouldn't buy stationery. Not necessarily because they couldn't. Mind you, the school's ordering/paying/collection stationery system was unneccessarily complicated (ie you had to order in December for the following year and there was a narrow pick-up window) so maybe that was a barrier for some families too.