Simplicity

Any of you other homeschoolers feel the need to have more teaching supplies then you really need? I do continuously. I have 2 complete sets of math manipulatives that could be appropriate for the level math we are doing, but instead of bringing them out and making use of them, I found myself bunching straws together with rubber bands one day last week.

The straws worked just fine. So, I guess there is something to be said for keeping it simple :)