I'm sure many of us can relate to this next story:
Eraser heads
For some adults, August means one thing: An excuse to buy school supplies
August 19, 2007
Julie Witczak had done her best to stay out of temptation's reach this summer. The Deerfield teacher has been the waterfront director for a YMCA camp in northern Wisconsin, far from the colorful displays of highlighters and spiral notebooks that have sprouted like dandelions in stores for more than a month now.
But when she and a friend had a day off, they found themselves in the aisles of a huge discount store in a nearby town, and it was there that Witczak broke a vow to herself not to score any school supplies until Aug. 1.
"I tried to get through the aisles, but I couldn't resist seeing the Crayola markers for only 89 cents a box," she said. "I had to have some. I broke my promise. I gave in before August."
She's not alone. As sales of school supplies keep climbing a lot faster than the U.S. population, it's pretty obvious that parents and other adults can't resist building their own stash of Flairs, scissors and glue sticks.
FULL STORY HERE: http://www.chicagotribune.com/featur...,4875214.story
