Cheap Cheap Paper

[teachnlearn]

My wife taught for years and I picked up on this when she first started. Every year we would go to a local newspaper printing plant and pick up Cheap, Cheap paper. Find a local printing, newspaper printing plant. Someone is usually around printing real estate booklets, auto booklets, 'nickel paper'.  In 'those days', I went to the library and looked at each town to find a newspaper plant. When you find one ask if they sell or give away 'end rolls'. When the machine is running they pull the roll before it's empty and put a full roll on the printer. They used to give the rolls to any teacher. We also use to buy rolls at the time was 50 cents for hundreds of feet. Works for packing, bulletin boards, kids crafts, drawing around someone, covering work, 'but its thin paper.'  Bring plastic shopping bags and packing tape or duct tape. Some places grease the ends of the roll. RJF

A newspaper end roll is a giant roll of blank newspaper with most of the paper removed from it, leaving “only” hundreds of square feet of blank newspaper behind. When newspaper printers make the newspapers that people read, the blank newspaper comes on enormous rolls. Mar 12, 2012

 

[jerrye]

Multiple layers of newsprint (the official name for the paper used for newspapers) also makes a great weed barrier for plant beds. Newsprint is what you get when you buy boxed flat sheets for packing from Uhaul.

[teachnlearn]

9 minutes ago, jerrye said:

Multiple layers of newsprint (the official name for the paper used for newspapers) also makes a great weed barrier for plant beds. Newsprint is what you get when you buy boxed flat sheets for packing from Uhaul.

Did that for my mom years ago. For some reason, the newsprint became a soggy mess and she wanted me to pull it. Spent more time scooping gravel and separating it from the soggy newsprint. RJF

[bazzz]

Another source of bigger sheets of paper is last years calendar. We always had salesmen leaving their large company calendars. I would just flip each month over instead of tearing them off. Bring the old one home when the new one arrives.

[teachnlearn]

Ever look at a calendar and notice your days are numbered? RJF

Edited March 28, 2019 by teachnlearn

[bazzz]

Yes, I am counting days to retirement, have about 80 work days to go.

[jollyred]

I use the envelopes we get in the mail to make quick sketches of my projects, write down dimensions, etc.  We recycle, so there is usually a box with used envelopes of all sizes.  This is really cheap.

[RabidAlien]

10 hours ago, teachnlearn said:

Ever look at a calendar and notice your days are numbered? RJF

Ever notice that even the calendar goes "Monday, Tuesday, W.T.F.?!?"

Edited March 28, 2019 by RabidAlien