Schools
"Back to School Boycott": Will You Join It?
"Can we hold off on buying number two pencils, binders and highlighters for a bit?" pleads Audra Myerberg in her Martha's Vineyard Patch blog. Do you agree that it's too soon to be looking at back-to-school sales? Tell us in the comments.
Audra Myerberg has had enough.
"It’s those premature back-to-school catalogs that get me so irate. With their overdressed little ones, piled with backpacks, lunch boxes and cute hair accessories," she writes in a blog post on Martha's Vineyard Patch entitled "Back To School Boycott".
Have you been receiving back-to-school catalogs already? Have you started shopping for fall? Tell us in the comments.
Like many of us on the Vineyard in July, Myerberg recoils at the idea of back-to-school shopping at the height of summer.
"Oh Pottery Barn and Hanna Andersson, can't you let a summer-loving Mom and her kids enjoy these few precious months when I don’t have to think about PTA meetings, packing the perfect lunch and science projects?" she pleads.
Myerberg has a different agenda in mind, writing:
"I am going to work on my summer reading list (read trashy magazines), pick blackberries in my yard before the birds get them, eat too much full calorie ice cream and delight in my overgrown garden.
"I will encourage my kids to play outside the full 15 hours the sun is out, eat too much ice cream with me, sleep late (OK, a mom can dream) and swim in the Vineyard ocean until their fingers and toes look like prunes.
"I will not think even for a moment about all the things the kids need come Labor Day ... I think I will just send those flashy back-to-school catalogs right to the recycling bin."
Do you agree with Myerberg? Are you holding off on fall shopping, or are those pre-season deals just too good to pass up? Tell us in the comments.