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I like to be prepared ahead of time for the first day of school, so I print out labels for my folders, journals, notebooks, etc.  Sometimes I spend too much time organizing, but that's what keeps me sane.

P.S.  I don't use all these labels in a given year.  I was just trying to cover as many bases as possible.
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