The Fast and Easy Way to Cut Coupons

I stumbled upon the FAST way to cut coupons!!!

Perhaps this “hack” has already been discovered and I am way behind the times, but I was cutting out some memory cards for our school day yesterday, when I realized I could use our paper-cutter to cut out my printed coupons as well!

This saved me a LOT of time and headache. I regularly use coupons when I shop (combining them with sales) and cutting each one out was the part I liked the least!

Cut it out!

I have seen paper cutters like mine at schools and libraries. I have a (now retired) public school teacher for a mother in law and she usually had one around her house.

I have also been to garage sales of teachers and former teachers getting rid of their “stash” (homeschool alert!) and seen these big beefy paper cutters for sale.

Scrapbooking supplies stores and craft stores often have similar looking paper cutters and smaller versions that could be used for cutting coupons.

Perhaps on your next trip to the library, they would let you borrow their paper cutter to use.

Just be sure to line up all your coupons perfectly straight! When you print out 2 per page, it often aligns differently than it would at 3 per page! Happy cutting!

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Oceans and Beaches

I’ve got high hopes for this coming homeschool year. We are ‘gonna be ON. THE. BALL. I’m committed this year to lots of ideas too. Ideas like “staying on schedule” or “returning our library books on time.”

Just kidding. I haven’t even ordered the curriculum yet.

And our self-imposed first week of homeschool year begins Monday. 

Clearly I have procrastinated.

Therefore, I have hurriedly thrown together an emergency mini unit study to hold us over until I win an Ebay auction or bite the bullet and order new curriculum FULL PRICED from the catalog. It’s a beach/ocean theme using links for free printables, materials from the library, and free internet resources.

It can be used for about a week of study, or I supposed it could be stretched on and on with the ocean unit links included.

 Oceans and Beaches

Currently this unit is geared toward my four year old (kindergarten), and six year old (1st grade). Also, the books are really only based on what’s available at my small local library right now –surprisingly, not much. There are SO many other great books on ocean life out there!

I’ve got a few shelves full of random math workbooks, early readers, and living books that we’re also working with that aren’t ocean themed. That’s why this unit is missing a lot of math activities. Google it or get creative to fill in the blanks!

 Why did I choose the ocean? Well we’ll be packing up next weekend for a couple of days on the Texas coast. Complete with aquarium visit.

 Let’s call it a field trip. ;)