Advice to parents of new Middle Schoolers

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Here is a little bit of advice, I learned the hard way with my daughter being in middle school last year. Don't, I repeat DON'T, fall into the trap of buying expensive binders for your middle schooler. Last year was the first year, my daughter was allowed to have a binder in school. The first one we bought, from Limited Too, broke in two weeks. yep, you heard me right. Then we went to Staples, that one lasted a month. Then we tried the heavy duty binders, they didn't last any longer. After Christmas, this mom said enough is enough. We buy the cheap $2.00 ones and she decorates them. I try to find freebie ones also. They last just as long as the the expensive ones. I scored about 10 binders the last week of school from teachers who were cleaning out their classrooms. So she is set this year for binders. So all she needs to do is decorate them with whatever she wants and she is set. They sure don't make them the way they use to. I can remember the blue canvas ones from when I went to school in the 1970's that would last almost two years.