Pencils

Right now, pencils and I have a love hate relationship.  I LOVE office supplies.  Office Max and Staples are right up there on my faves list, along with Costco and possibly a ton of other places.  But I'm tired of pencils.  If I find one more stupid pencil in my house, I may ban them altogether.

When our oldest was going into 3rd grade and was still in public schools, they sent home the class supply list.  On that list was 60 pencils.  Per student.  That's an obscene number of pencils.  1500 pencils for a 25 student classroom.  Sayeth what????  I am so entirely tired of finding so many pencils in my house, I've been throwing them away.  All I can imagine is that every year, every classroom in every school in every district across the US throws out pencils.  How many tons of pencils?  How many trees is that?  My heart hurts for the amount of waste we accept as business as usual.  I need to work hard on not being so wasteful.