9 Must-Have Back-to-School Supplies at Walgreens for Under $10

How often do you swing by Walgreens for back-to-school supplies? The drugstore chain acts as a one-stop shop for all your school supply needs on a budget, whether you’re shopping for traditional school supplies, supplemental supplies for classrooms or dorm room essentials.

Thanks to Walgreens’ great deals, get ready to check the following school supplies off your shopping list.

• Price: $0.69 each or 2/$1

Pick up paper folders for classes for less at Walgreens. 

Each folder in this seven-color assortment is priced at 69 cents each or shoppers can purchase two folders for $1. (Our recommendation is to shop the two for a $1 deal to save a little extra money.)

• Price: $8

Originally $9.99, the view binder is now $8 at Walgreens. 

While that may sound like a lot of money to spend on a binder, this 2-inch binder is built for heavy-duty classroom use. Each binder holds up to 565 sheets of paper, has four interior pockets and includes D-rings that easily close and lock.

• Price: $4

Shop the Walgreens sale on mechanical pencils and save $1 off the original price of $4.99. Each package is filled with 30 mechanical pencils, which means the amount of money spent per pencil comes out to 13 cents each.

• Price: $7

Regularly priced at $9.99 each, Walgreens shoppers receive 30% in savings when they shop these pencil pouches. 

Each pencil pouch measures at 9.06 x 2.17 x 3.35 inches, giving students plenty of room to store classroom supplies like pens, pencils, erasers, scissors and more.

• Price: $2.99

Need to grab a composition book for your school supply list? Wexford composition books, containing 80 sheets of lined paper, are available at Walgreens for $2.99 each.

• Price: $5.49

Supplemental classroom supplies, like hand sanitizer, are also available to shop at Walgreens. 

At $5.49 per bottle, this advanced hand sanitizer is FSA-eligible. Shoppers can pay using their FSA card and use the funds in their FSA account before they expire.

• Price: $3.79

Swap out a more expensive name brand in favor of shopping Walgreens brand of multi-purpose disinfectant wipes. Each container is filled with 75 wipes and can be used for cleaning all sorts of classroom surfaces or surfaces in dormitories if you’re a college student.

• Price: $5

Get extra bang for your buck shopping the Walgreens brand paper towels. 

At $5 for a package of six large paper towels, the six large rolls are the equivalent of eight regular paper towel rolls. When we do the math, the cost per paper towel roll comes out to just 83 cents per roll.

• Price: $5.29

Need a laundry hamper for your dorm room? Pick one up for less at Walgreens. Priced at just under $6, this laundry hamper pops open quickly to hold laundry, is flexible enough to hold a little or a lot of laundry and folds shut for flat storage.