Schools
School's Out, But Supplies for 2012-13 School Year Already Available
Muskego Elementary and St. Leonard's school supply lists available online already, as Milwaukee company will pick and pack all your fall classroom needs and put them on your doorstep.
Maybe you like shopping for school supplies.
Perhaps hauling the kids to the store, or to several stores, and traipsing up and down aisles looking for the right binders and folders, the markers and pens, the tape and glue sticks book covers while check off your list, trips your trigger.
If not, there's now a way to do it from home if your kids are attending Muskego Elementary or St. Leonard's in fall, with a few clicks. Then you just wait for it all to be packed and shipped to your door.
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While the kids may still be celebrating their first full week off from school, a national company called School-Pak, founded in Milwaukee, has supplies ready to order for next school year already on its online shopping list.
Terri Schulist founded School-Pak in 1991 after a frustrating shopping trip to the store, searching for a "purple folder" that appeared on her son's suggested supply list.
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With her husband, Gene, she put together a plan to provide packages of school supplies, based on teachers' lists, to surrounding schools.
School-Pak has now grown to a nationally recognized provider of pre-packaged supply kits, listed as No. 1 on Google searches for "pre-packaged school supplies," "school supply kits" and "packaged school supplies."
Those searches have led to growth in the New York area, Northern Illinois, San Antonio and throughout Florida and other states.
Because School-Pak is a Milwaukee company, parents can shop online instead of in stores and still support the local economy.
School-Pak has put the supply lists for these Muskego schools online, and as an introduction to the new lists, they are offering a discounted price on its elementary packs through Sunday. Parents can choose to have the School-Paks delivered to their homes (UPS charge applies) or they can pick them up at the School-Pak warehouse, 4001 W. Green Tree Rd., Milwaukee.
While the discount will end on Sunday, parents can continue to purchase until July 17. Supplies are limited for each grade at each school.
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