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The Best Prime Day Deals on Back-to-School Stuff

Calculators, dorm room furniture, and pencil cases are among the deals.
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The Best Prime Day Deals on Back-to-School Stuff
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Sorry to break it to you, but back-to-school season is fast approaching. Fortunately, Prime Day’s sales include plenty of school supplies. Here are some of the best deals.

Dorm room stuff

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Fabric drawers are the current generation’s affordable way to stash clothes and essentials. Several sizes and styles are on sale, such as this four-drawer set for $44.39. It’s small enough to squeeze between a desk and bed, and large enough to fit your socks and underwear with room to spare.

Need snacks by your side at all times? The BedShelfie is a shelf that hangs onto the side of any bed, the better to sip coffee while studying or stack your books when you finally turn in for the night. It’s $27.99 right now.

When it’s time to do laundry, this laundry bag becomes a backpack—it’s got shoulder straps—and it also has a large mesh pocket for carrying your detergent. It’s $13.59. (There’s an inner zippered pocket, too.)

And for move-in day, forget the boxes. You can get a 6-pack of extra-large moving bags with zippers and carry handles for $26.96.

Basic school supplies

Before you go out and buy individual packs of pens, pencils, glue sticks, highlighters, and more, check out this combo pack with all the basics (plus mechanical pencils and Sharpies) for $16.76.

Does your kid run through a lot of highlighters? Here’s a 36-pack, in assorted colors, for $15.19.

Need a massive pencil case to hold all of the above? Try this one that opens on the top and the front for $7.99, or this with zippered sections on both sides for $11.88.

Techy school supplies

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A great headphone option for the little ones is this $12.99 pair that folds up and that has a volume limiter to protect their little ears.

For the older kids, here’s a scientific calculator that comes with an electronic scratch pad ($15.99), so they can scribble their notes and then erase them with the press of a button.

And to protect all those cables, gadgets, and small items, consider picking up a multi-pack of these waterproof zippered pouches, $11.99, to wrangle all those little things inside their backpack.