Teacher Vlog: Ikea vs Target vs Michaels

all right good morning everyone so it's about eleven o'clock or so I have yet to go to school this week actually yesterday we spent quite a bit of our time we did like a little family road trip to go to Philadelphia which is about like an hour and a half maybe two hours away from me but we went to Ikea so we wanted we wanted to get a few little house bit so we may just kind of like a family a little day of it and drove around saw some really cool places and yeah so what's at IKEA found some really really cool stuff and I'm actually going to go ahead and insert some of those clips here although song on but guess what happens if we get to be a good boy later on and you get to kiss um okay that's a good facial [Music] Oh [Music] little train I love this train I pretty much want one for the house just because it keeps me so organized at school why not have one to the house there's oxide Branly reminding us to be good the whole thing remind you is to do right here that would be cool on a door also blame blame where are you up in here and here and here Oh funny yes I'll pick the thing up has awesome storage is 399 which is phenomenal ellipsis a might roll and it's not really well like it I found that you for a hobby money 50 bucks me anyway some creepy guy in here so he found some really cool little bits and pieces I didn't really get anything for the classroom because a lot of the stuff that IKEA has I already have for the classroom so I really didn't need anything else but I was really excited to see that they had my cart that I actually have for me that I'm using in [Music] they had actually weight cheaper than I think I originally purchased it I feel like I bought it for almost $60 and it wasn't $60 I think it's about the exact same prices what Michaels is selling their cart so today what I'm wanting to do I'm actually at the Dollar Tree right now and I'm going to go in because I need to get a few bits and pieces because I really want to set up my little area somebody has asked to do a video on just kind of setting up my little desk area so that's what I'm going to do this week I'm going to set up my little area maybe get a couple of things out from my classroom that I had last year and get those into my space and then I wanted to also set up my partner's cart and do a little bit of a comparison between the IKEA art and the Michaels cart that they have and see what are kind of the big differences that I feel like I'm noticing in between them because now I'm thinking that the prices are pretty similar so I am going to go into the Dollar Tree I want to grab a couple of bits there for my desk for some of the drawers that I have and then also for the IKEA cart so that I can have everything nice and neatly organized which is all very very exciting I have a very very busy week this week we like okay oh you did was heady you guys get anything I'm gonna grab a car go first got desperate hold that for me look at that they already have back-to-school stuff out which is always fun all this stuff makes me happy pop pop so let's do some of these yes in the cart - these are great for I use these from a little mini gym to set they're really really nice they lock pretty well - which is good here wanting - let's do that hold enough for that these are awesome clothes this mean yeah I like the these are always great for tight just the guys can you shake them up really really good they also hop those which are really nice to to have for storage see I'm thinking over here oh look at that blue one look at that blue that's a pretty blue thing wait a second don't need them I have lots of them I need to get more containers we're going to go to the containers let's go okay I love love love these right here and they usually come in exercises but they don't have the clear one which is a little bit of a bummer but I might grab the blue anyway over here I'm like overloading reach out oh and beverage storage is very anything $1 yeah green serves me of the ones that I use for math and the Sterilite versions which are really great so I like to put a lot of math manipulatives of me oh yeah I'm still looking for something to be able to put my pencils end I'm really in love with this blue I really like this blue oh I do I love blue blue is my heart it's like right next to everything else but it's right next to green it's like green and blue or my favorite alright so we were finally in the classroom which is really good it's not as hot because I did close the blinds a little bit a little more last week so that's as far as I could take them I couldn't take them all the way down some the time is going to end up having to work but I wanted to show you guys exactly what I got from the Dollar Tree to help you start trying to get a couple of things organized so that I can get this space up and running em and the way that I actually want it so let me show you guys what I got okay so I did tell you guys not to judge me on the way that I look like I'm looking a little rough but that's going to be okay alright so I ended up getting one I really and you got to be kidding me my battery's about to die all right this is mine I can't card that I bought or actually my husband bought it for my birthday one year and I'm going to end up using this as like my teaching cart so I'm going to have like a little area like a desk area kind of in this space so this little space that you see right here this is going to be like my little desk area so as far as like my teaching materials the things that I'm going to use for my small groups I'm not going to have that in the desk I'm going to have it in the cart because I don't know if you guys have been keeping up with my vlogs if I'm going to be in like one room I may end up switching rooms throughout the week like I may not be in the exact same room every single day of the week and says we're we're in like main room that we're going to have which is going to be our fantasy room that fantasy room is going to have like the meaning area that's going to be we're all kind of grouping together and then that room is going to be where they find out what their schedules going to look like and they're going to learn how to input that into their calendars so they're going to have that and I may end up saying okay missus Backman's group at you know ten o'clock is going to be meeting in the sci-fi room or respect mints group at two o'clock is going to end up meeting in the fantasy room this is Fatima's group at you know twelve o'clock is going to end up meeting in the historical room so depending on where I'm going to be my cart is going to end up going with me so I need this current to have a lot of my material that I'm going to use for teaching so the idea is I simply have like a binder that I will have teaching materials inside of it and I would like to get some type of like file holder system here to be able to keep my files because I do love my files and I'm going to show you guys that too in a little bit once I start getting some of those put into play but for the most part like this needs to hold like the pencils the index cards this sticky note it's just things that you're going to need in general for small groups so let me show you the things that I've bought and then I'm going to start kind of putting it together and then I'm going to show you guys how it ends up being is a very imp sold off so let's go through this number one bag I have two bags I found these last year when I was trying to kind of go through my entire organizing of my classroom it was during PSSA time I was walking around I was like oh this kinesin fixed then just to need some fix in because you have nothing else better do during PSSA time so while you're actively watching children but I found these at the Dollar Tree and I was really excited about it I was kind of bummed out because my Dollar Tree didn't have the clear ones they only have the blue ones which I may end up switching them out but it's not that big of a deal but these are cool so here is what they label is but what's neat is that they snap on I don't know if you guys can see these little kind of hook but they snap and they lock on to each other like this that they're not kind of shuffling around there spats are locked in to each other they have different sizes these so they have this one is like a really big size I like this one for like scissors like not kids scissors adult scissors and then they have these which are I think this would be like a pin size so like four pins and markers and four tip scissors things that you want to put in there index cards would be great for these so I picked up these and then I also got the clear ones here's what the clear ones look like so here is a clear one and this is a smaller size and these are great for like rubber bands for push pin paper clips those types of things so those will all be going inside of me the next thing I got were these little buckets and I was kind of excited just to be able to try them out because I like this little piece of it so it snaps in like this which I'm really excited about and I thought this would be a really great place to hold a few things that I need and I'm thinking I am right they stack rather nicely as well which I was excited about so I got two these and they have like their new like organization slash like school section looks like it's starting to come out you know where they always like to walk into to the Dollar Tree and they end up showing you like they have all the seasonal things I think some of the school stuff is starting to pop out so be on the lookout I picked some of these up use a little sure fresh containers so I put Dyson inside of them the kiss can shake them up or if you use any kind of like little cards picture cards number cards anything like that I'm going to put them inside of these so I can keep them all in one little spot okay next thing I got and I've had these before and you guys have you been watching me for a little bit you've seen them too but with my Jenga set that I have I put them inside of these little containers they look like little scene which boxes and I think it is like a seed which box if I'm not mistaken but it's a perfect little science to put the Ginga set any kind of cards anything that you kind of reference to periodically or you want to put those games in there like I love work and I like games getting organized in one of these different and what's fabulous is that they snap which is nice so they're nice and snapped in so nothing ends up falling out which is what I love the best about these there's a little label there's a little label if you want to look at it but these are some of my favorite containers to get and usually when they have them out I will typically buy a lot of them because they go super fast and then I can't find them anywhere it's also got and these are kind of nothing new but they have these in various sizes right now they have them in blue and then I have they have them the white I just picked up the whites to be able to put pencils in erasers anything that I want to choose to put inside of these these are really great little organizer baskets they have this size and then they have the one that's like a rectangle that's about this big I only chose to get this size today because I have a ton of the other ones for when I use accounting charge set when I did counting turn kindergarten I used the other size which was great I also picked up paper clip I couldn't remember if I have paper clips or not so I picked up some paper clips and then the last thing that ended up picking out and this was actually in the school section which was like that's actually a good size I picked up some of these sponges because you can end up cutting them in half and it's a really great thing to have for like whiteboard cleaners too these for the kids to be able to clean up their whiteboards so I'm going to keep these and put them inside one of the boxes the bigger boxes so that we can have them for when they need to clean up their their dry race sports or their desks sometimes I have them write on desk so that was kind of the bulk of it now I need to figure out what all do I need to have in this bad boy [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'm going to take just one little minute and I'm going to just write on the camera for just this little second I don't know if I'm going to keep this in and me end up taking it out I don't really know so I just received I just placed up my planner so for those of you who have already purchased my planner thank you so much for your love and support I hope that you are enjoying it so somebody I just put up my planner on to TBT and someone just left me ratings which is at a one-star they left me or one-star rating which I don't understand this I don't understand why people use ratings as a way to just be mean like it has nothing to do with a product it has to do with the fact that they're not happy with a decision that I need when it came to my planner um so I have never offered updates like for the new school year I've always said that you know what you walk in you go to purchase your new planner at a store whenever you go and buy it you go to Erin Condren and you have to repurchase the planner why is it that I have to put in all the work and time and give it for free like why does everyone expect things for free I just don't understand that like my time and my work and the things that I do needs to be valued and I feel like if people ask me well you need to give me an update every single year for free well hey I just don't understand that so this person thought that they were going to get the planner for free which I never once said that I would ever give a planner free for the next year I've said that it gets updated throughout the year for free so like adding new covers would be updated if there are things that are wrong with it it would get updated but I never once said that next year you get the planner for free never have I ever said that actually I'm pretty sure that in my last that I did on my teacher planner I even specifically said that I don't offer a free planner for the next year like ah I just don't understand so the person went on TV team left me a very not nice message or of not nice rating in all caps which is kind of annoying basically was upset because it wasn't getting a free update so she gave me a one-star why why would why would you do that why are you so been dictum why be so mean I don't understand and this is what we're teaching children we're teaching children to go out and be mean and to give people one star ratings just because they don't like them really like and it's not like you spent $75 on an Erin Condren oh my word it was $12 like and you're getting upset at me over it I don't understand either way so guys I am putting out my teacher planner video very soon and it does not receive free updates okay that was that I have never said that I would do free updates and I know some of you might be disappointed on that and I know that there are other people out there to do free updates with their planner every single year and they give you give it to you and it's great then don't buy my planner I'm sorry that you don't like it but come on good things are happening this week let's get back to this so I have this little bitty cart semi put together I did have to kind of play with it a little bit the little containers that snaps into place that I got from the Dollar Tree I think it's because of the curve of the actual there's like this curve right here but because of that curve it wasn't wanting to snap incorrectly I don't know so I had to play with it a little bit but I did end up getting them to work so let me show you guys exactly what I have so far and then some things that I'm thinking about doing for the very top of it so let me show you let me turn you around and show you so down here in this middle section I ended up deciding to do all of my little supplies that I have over here so I ended up the little white basket here for the pencils and then I have the larger one to hold index cards and I have two different size of index cards large post-it notes I have paper clips the erasers which I like to cut my erasers in half because I feel like they I don't lose them as much I don't know so I end up cutting my erasers in half and then I have a smaller post-it notes that are I think they're like half of this no they're not half but they're just a little bit smaller which are really nice I like to decide the size and then I also put some highlighters that we'll use end up end up using during small groups the only thing that I did not consider was putting in dry erase markers so I'm going to figure out a different way to put that so I might put that actually down here at the bottom so then in the bottom one I ended up having as I ended up putting those little cans little bitty containers inside of this in case I did want to be able to use them I have them here I like to just have these little bitty containers for when I need to pass things out it just makes things mix passing things out so much easier so I placed that in there and then I cut up the sponges in half so that we can use them as erasers for their dry erase markers so that is all in there and those are stacked up rather nicely so I placed those two things in there and then I have some composition notebooks that I know that we're going to be using for morning meeting so I ended up putting those there so I might end up just putting a little bitty container right here to fit some of my dry erase markers so hold on one second okay so now I have dry erase markers dry erase serves and then I have my little containers my composition notebooks and then all of my other little supplies here so at the very top I told you guys I wanted to be able to put my files so my idea is that I'm going to have files for each of the groups I'm going to be teaching and in the morning or for that week I'm going to put all of those files in here so then I don't have to worry about it well I can't fit a nice little file system in here and every time I tried to do something I ended up borrowing my partners to see what it would look like and it's too clunky two clunky looks too big I don't really like it let me show you guys see it just it just doesn't look right so I did like this idea then then I found these which I've had these for a few years now I actually found them in too tolerant the target dollar spot but then I found that and I said maybe that's a really good option I'm not really sure but they're going to end up holding folders like this inside of it so that's kind of what it would end up looking like and I mean I'm okay with it if that ends up being my last resort but wasn't my favorite and then I was talking to my husband and my husband knows how to weld so he said I'm sorry look at my butt my husband said since he does welding and my brother-in-law also welds and my father-in-law actually all three of them weld that they could end up putting some type of a pole here to be able to allow me to Hank my files here so then I would have this little bit of extra space there but just imagine me being able to put that here with my file folders hanging like that how cool would that be so really they would just have to put a wire coming up from here another wire or steel rod or something to that extent and then another one here another one there and it just having the two areas for us to kind of go over to and I would just have this really nice little file hanging system so I don't know if that's actually going to happen I'm going to talk to my brother-in-law this evening once I get back home to see what he thinks about it but I thought that was a really cool idea so that's kind of what I have at the moment I'm hoping that I can get this finished this week so that's kind of one more thing off my checklist so there it is I would like to go ahead and clean out some of this because a lot of this stuff ended up getting stuffed inside of here which is not the best but we're going to end up seeing what happens here but I have a lot of junk inside of this whole drawer that I need to get cleaned out and fixed up a little bit more nicely and then here is that little desk area that I was showing you guys and I'm not quite sure all of the things I need to have up here I have a ton of storage up here that I don't even know what to do with I just don't know what to do with it and then I have some drawers and some things like that that I have in here too that I just again work storage stuff right now I just had a couple of things that I was just putting in there just to put in there but yeah that's kind of the little area that I have at the moment so I know a lot of you ask a lot of questions about teacher desks and having a teacher space and I don't have a teacher space and you know what do I do with all my stuff and where do I do all my work well a lot of the times when I look kids guys like I don't do other stuff like I'm not on my computer I'm not on anything else I'm suggesting on my students because that's their time to be able to have me to be able to help them in anything that they need help with so typically I'm like doing individual conferences I'm walking in the room i listening to kid Reid like I'm constantly doing things with kids so I don't really need my teacher space because I don't use my teacher space and typically when the kids are gone I'm sitting in their little areas like I sit like on a desk I sit at a table I sit at a you know the sofa or wherever it need be and I'll just get my work done there I don't really need a huge desk in order for me to do my work and I don't need a lot of things either because a lot of materials that I have are the things that they need and you know I have that stuff out my binders and things like that I hold the resources in I have my file cabinets for that and then I have those cabinets for that and that's where I put all of that stuff away but I don't need to have it out because I don't constantly use that the only thing that I use throughout the day are going to be the materials that are going to go inside of that cart and then I use the future planner and that's really about it I don't use anything else because I just don't feel the need to use every like have all this other stuff like hanging out so I just kind of keep it into that little section and then I have my nice pins in it the kids know like I'll have my nice little pins that I will keep out nice being no touching song and they will not touch my pendants but that's pretty much it so I don't feel the need to use a desk I feel like it takes too much space up I feel like it's just a waste of space to be honest and I want the kids to feel like it's their room too like I don't want them to come up to me and be like I'm invading this segment space instead I want them to come up to me and be like hey you know and have a conversation about things and not feel like I'm behind the desk I'm the superior person um because that's in my brain that's what I feel like it is you know I always get scared going into like the principal's office because he's sitting behind his desk and I'm like ooh intimidated like I feel intimidated and I don't want my students to feel intimidated because of my space so the kids know that they're going to be able to come back here they're going to be able to talk to me you know hang out with me that kind of thing and that's good and fine um I feel like I'm rambling I'm so sorry I don't mean to ramble but for those of you who would like have to have a teacher space yeah I totally did it have a teacher desk if it works for you and that's what you like to have and you need to make sure that you have your defined space because it makes you feel better and it makes your brain work better as a teacher do it no one is telling you not to have a desk no one is telling you that you have to have this crazy overblow type system no one is telling you that you have to be like me and think like me I think this way this is the way my brain processes things but you don't need to do that so totally do whatever is best for you please don't take this like ill I don't know I don't know I don't know if I'm like being mean about having a teacher desk I just personally don't like a teacher desk uh if you like a teacher desk Hey kudos to you you stand strong and you do your boobs um but that's really about it I'm sorry I'm going to start rambling okay so I'm going to go ahead and just kind of close up shop and clean up my mess and then I'm going to come back tomorrow hopefully get that other cart put together and get the rest of my space set up crossing my fingers and then also got to print a couple of things while I'm here tomorrow so hope that was fun I hope you like my little solitary hall I will see you guys tomorrow bye biggest day 2 of trying to bring my children to work with me let's all hope this goes well so it is Wednesday it has been a very very busy morning so far I had a patreon chat that was went fantastic this morning then I also have been on and off the phone pretty much all day long and I've gotten no work done at all I've got nothing done but that's ok so today I mention here just a little bit later it's a little after 4:30 in the afternoon and today is kind of a special day because today is going to be the first day that we invite our students for the 2017-2018 max team to come and join us to hang out at our playground so when we saw the kids during move the pride we gave them their summer challenge books on the summer challenge books in the very beginning like the welcoming page we told the kids that we had a couple of dates where they could come and just kind of hang out with us get to know us and just talk we were going to bring our kids we were just going to hang out outside have popsicles play some games and it's going to be great so today is one of those days where we get to kind of hang out with some of our kids so we're hoping we're going to have a really good time turn out we did have a few parents go ahead and contact us and let us know that our kids the kids are really excited about coming so that's going to be fantastic and I'm excited about getting to see them and meeting them again and it's just a good day it's just one of those weeks y'all it's one of those weeks where it's going to be really busy and then next week is just one of those weeks that it's just again it's going to be really busy it's just it's a busy time in my life right now so I am going to attempt to try to get a little bit of work done I want to transfer over some of my files give us some of those things together so it is going to be just kind of another organizing afternoon until about 6:30 when the kids start to show up so I really quick just want to bring up a little bitty point really fast I was on my patreon chat with a fantastic fantastic teacher and loved her to death and she'd meet the point that she was extremely jealous about the storage that I have in my room because I have all these cabinets and I just want to point out the same thing that I point out to that I pointed out to her that yeah it's good to have cabinets and to have storage don't get me wrong but it's a little bit harder to have to plan out your room this way because every single wall has something but you have to consider so many different things and whereas in my old room when I was in kindergarten and we didn't have any shelving and we didn't have cabinets I purchased all of my shelving units though the great thing about that was that I could move my shelving units around y'all I can't lose these shelving units ok there's stuff where they are so some of my spaces can't move whereas I could end up determining where I wanted to have my small group area here it's kind of like you get what you get and you don't get to fit you know what I'm saying so it may be really great to have some of these wonderful cabinets but let me tell you it is not like all that it's cracked up to be because I have limitations on how I can design my room and how I can do my setup I can't move things around like I did in my in my kindergarten classroom which is a little bit sad so things pretty much get put the way they are and then they don't move after that my husband would appreciate that part of it because my house is not like that at all it is up being like my kindergarten classroom where it changes all the time so this is going to be my little desk area and I know some of you have been commenting about that but this is my little bitty desk area it's kind of like my little home base I guess you can consider it just kind of where I keep certain things that I can access throughout the school day I wanted to put it inside of this room instead of keeping it in the old room that I had for a couple of different reasons one I wanted to make sure that that space was completely maximized to be able to hold as many kids as possible to I wanted to be able to access it like throughout the day and I don't see myself going into the the the fantasy room the big room as much as I see myself inside of these other two rooms so it's going to be easier for me to access these other two rooms the only times I'm going to be accessing that really big hey how you doing so sorry about that guys somebody actually walked into the room so I wasn't able to I wasn't able I don't remember exactly what I was talking about I remember talking about the the cabinet and then something else as they walked in my room and I have no idea what I was talking about but either way I have to go and make a copy of a summer challenge book because one of our girls lost her book so I need to go and do that for her I also did want to move a couple of my files over so when I'm looking at this cabinet right here with my little space so oh that's probably where I stopped but this is going to be my little desk space it's going to be my home base for me to be able to get some of my books just this is really all I need on my desk this is all I'm usually but I have a little cabin in my room where I had my 43 folder 43 42 folder system I can't remember which number it is anyways it's 43 so 43 folder system and I'm going to actually put it inside of this room just to make it easier for me to be able to access it and what's nice is that this room does actually have a couple of file cabinets down here which is really nice so I need to go and grab those files to be able to put them over here so that I can have a nice little my nice little area all fixed up so I'll have my 43 folder system over here and I will explain that in just a moment so this isn't going to work I thought that this was going to hold the files the way that I want them to hold the file and it's not going to happen so in a normal file system the bottom okay in a normal system what you end up having is you end up having these little rods that can hold these pieces but this one doesn't do that and look ya'll it likes black that's not cool not cool at all I'm not liking me and I don't even know what any of this stuff is oh it's all extra stuff that I just gotta file away um so that's not going to work it's not going to work at all hey guys so we went to Target and I bought another cart oh so I thought it would be a really good idea to do a comparison with the IKEA cart that I've had now for two years with the cart from Michaels and then also with the cart from Target seems to be really really popular in teaching especially around the small group area where you're having to kind of move and have a lot of materials right there by you whenever you're teaching so what a better way to look at all the different cards than to go out and just purchase them so I am trying to have my husband not me my husband put this together and then I'm going to do a little rundown of the three carts of together side by side [Music] I mean it's incredibly bigger and I'm not sure how the pieces are put together in there but we're going to find out in the syllabus huge difference already [Music] hey guys so I have all three cards here and I want to do just a little bit of a comparison so in case you were wanting to get one of these carts for your classroom this will hopefully help you be able to decide which one you want to get for your room which one's perfect for your budget and let's just be honest which store is probably closest to you because sometimes that's also a factor especially if you don't have an Ikea that's close to you so I have a target cart that's next to me that I just got this morning an Ikea cart that I've had now for about two years and then a Michaels cart that we got earlier in the spring so we're going to compare all three of them going from bottom to top and looking at some of the big similarities and differences between the three the very first thing that I want to point out are the wheels the wheels this Michaels cart is a it's not as easy to roll around I will say that one of the pluses that I saw in the on the Michaels cart was that it locks so the wheels will actually lock in place the IKEA cart is phenomenal when it comes to like rolling it rolls so smooth and it's very like I don't know I know I have a little bit of weight in there right now but y'all this cart has never failed me when it comes to it rolling and just having a really nice feel to it when you're rolling it but the actual wheels don't lock and then the target cart the wheels locked and it actually rolls pretty nice I would say out of the three which one I like the most is going to be IKEA his first target gets seconds and then Michaels is in last for the quality of the wheels and just the way that it rolls for the cart itself now looking at the actual baskets so the baskets are a little bit different I would say that Michaels and Target have a kind of a closer look and design to them they're more of a rectangular shape and the corners are not as curved whereas the IKEA cart it has a really big curve which I have kind of figured out that when you're putting things inside of it it makes it a little bit difficult especially when you're looking at like fitting paper inside of it because of that big curve it doesn't you have kind of this big huge amount of space left off on the end since it has that curve whereas the other two carts don't have it as much it's just a smaller curve which gives it a really nice look and design to it and also maximizes space so the cards themselves are also a little bit different in sizes so the michael shelf itself is a little bit as the smallest out of all three of them and they're all off by about half an inch the target one comes in the middle with the sides itself and then the ikea art is by far the biggest but also remember that it does have that curve so you're actually losing some of that space also looking at the actual shelves themselves two is going to be the netting on the inside of it the Michaels cart has a very small netting which I really really like to be honest I don't like the really big holes that the target and the IKEA art have because I have had issues with things going through sometimes going through those holes which is a little bit of a pain in the butt but I will say that as far as the quality goes of these Michaels is going to come in way left you actually feel the indent from when they had this I guess within the factory where they just kind of rolled it out and laid it you can feel the indents in it and it just feels like you can push them through at any point a target is a little bit better as far as the quality of the actual shelf here but it's nowhere near compared to the IKEA that IKEA art and the shelving of the lining that is inside of it is phenomenal it is so strong so sturdy and and I don't ever see that thing breaking on me at all so as far as looking at the cards again I'm going to have to say IKEA comes in first target comes in second and then the Michaels card actually comes in last so now let's look at the actual space and between them this space actually right here when you're going in between these two shells is huge it's a huge thing because sometimes it becomes a little bit of a pain when you're having to take things in and out in and out especially if you're dealing with files or papers pencil anything that you may be putting inside of it looking at the Michaels and the IKEA they actually have the exact same distance and it's pretty wide as well for putting things inside and outside so they're the exact same distance apart from each of the carts the target one is smaller so it doesn't have as much of a space in between the two cards I think it was about an inch where it was a difference this one has far less space than what the other two have and the other two are exactly the same something else that I noticed as well is just kind of looking at the design aspect of it you're going to notice that the target cart actually has these handles that you would be able to push your cart so if you're going to be like me and you're going to be moving your cart a lot this is actually a really nice feature to be able to have the other two carts do not have them but I've never really had issues with it especially with the IKEA because it does roll so smoothly and I never had an issue with rolling it all in all y'all like looking at all three of these cards by far IKEA comes in first place for the quality the design the reliability of it target is going to come in second and then Michaels comes in last and just words like a price variance we went and ended up looking at some of the prices the target cart this morning actually cost me $29.99 the Michaels cart cost $30 with a 40% off coupon you can get it down to 18 and I'm pretty sure that you can use your teacher discount as well to get you an extra I think either 10 or 15% off which is a huge deal so if you're looking at price and you just kind of need to determine it based off of that those are some big differences and then the iCube card I found it online for $24.99 to the best bang for your buck I would definitely go with the IKEA cart just because it is such an amazing quality cart it's going to be reliable I've never had any issues with it and it still looks brand-new and I've had it for two years which has been amazing and you all my kids are up on these carts too so keep that in mind as well so all in all there's my cart comparison I would love to know which part that you liked the most leave a comment down below let me know which one is your absolute favorite and yeah so there you go if you have any other questions on the cart leave them down below and I will hopefully answer some of those for you yeah I am struggling again today I am not motivated my little boy poor thing he looks like he is just so tired so yesterday it was so great but we as teachers like us three teachers for the Maxine we ended up inviting all of our mat kids to be able to come out to the playground at our school and kind of hang out just get to know each other talk and they were going to do their summer summer challenge check in with us so they got stickers for their challenges that they've been doing and they got to have popsicles which was really great and we got to kind of get to meet some of the families and just chit chat and talk about things and they loved it like it was a little bit like whoo I'm not I'm not sure about this at the very beginning like they were all a little bit nervous but they all opened up and they were so nice and so amazing and I am so thankful and grateful for all of the families that are part of our team so that was really fun but we ended up staying here until most I think we didn't get home until like 8:30 8:45 and so by that time my kid was so exhausted because he had been running around on our huge playground with all these big kids thinking that he's just a big dog she's like a chihuahua he thinks he's a big dog and he's running around with all these other big kids trying to be like them and he left so tired that I think he was actually still tired this morning because he's at I mean he was yawning just a little bit ago but they went out to go and write banks right now so that I can still film the cart showdown and I just finished that up and yeah so there you go I hope you guys enjoyed that anyways um they are actually cleaning my original room right now so the famouse room they're cleaning it this week which is really great news all of my stuff is out in the hallway at the moment but that means next week I can start getting into that room as well which that's going to be really fun and exciting although I don't know how much time I'm actually going to be spending in my classroom next week all will be revealed to y'all tomorrow um as far as why everything has been so crazy and why I'm going to have to take a break from the classroom for a couple of weeks a week maybe two weeks just depending on how much work I'm going to happen ahead of me so all we reveal tomorrow so keep watching please don't stop watching and you guys will find out the big secret that I've been keeping from you since May so I don't think I'm going to be spending a lot of time here I don't really have a lot that I can do right now I can't do much until they finish painting that and they finish in my room so really I can't do much at all until that piece of it I will say that yesterday I tried to put the files inside of my file cabinet that I have in my little area over here so I have this little desk area right here and I try to put some files in this little file cabinet that I have down here you know it doesn't even work like I don't I don't know so I have a 43 folder system that I use to help keep me organized throughout the year and you can see that I still have yet to clean it out since the end of the year but they don't like hook on here which is different so I don't know exactly how I want to handle this if I'm just going to leave it like this or if I'm going to have to figure out a different system I'm not really I'm not sure exactly what I want to do but I need something to be able to keep all of these files inside of so I don't know we're going to have to see and figure it out another time because I'm not sure exactly what I would do I could put I did have one file that I could put up here it's like hanging file system and it's just like a really big crate and I can put that over here in this spot but that was just a little sad because I have these two drawers I know I feel like I can't even use because now it does this which is a little bit of a bummer such a pain oh well I'm glad that I got my cart am I put together for my class so I got a lot of the little pieces organized to it I still need to figure out what I'm going to do as far as like putting my files in there I told you guys that my husband thinks that we can maybe weld a couple of things on it to make a hanging file system on there I don't want to put the 43 folders on there I'm going to put it as like my group folders on there if that makes any sense to you guys but I'm glad that I got the card together I'm wheeling the car right now look at that it just y'all this cart rolls so nice it just it rolls good anyways so at least I got this cart done and I'm going to have to figure out something about the files themselves and how I'm going to put them in there because I wasn't very pleased with that piece of it so there is a cart it looks really nice I'm very happy with these little containers right here I think that's going to help me keep this very nice and neat and clean and organized so overall I love it hey guys it is a Friday afternoon and I just wanted to give you guys a really really really quick update as I'm coming to the very end of my edits so that I can get this video posted up for you on Saturday morning bright and early so I told you guys that there was a big secret that I have been keeping from you since May like it's been going on since May how insane is that so many of you guess that I'm pregnant I'm not pregnant thankfully like I don't want to be pregnant again um but the very very big secret that we have going on is that we are now homeowners cue pictures so we have purchased our very first home and so you guys are probably wondering where in the world are you living been we've been living with my in-laws so we're at my husband's parents house and this is where he grew up they have a very nice land very nice farmland but we don't live here that we've just been staying here until we have been able to find a home of our own and luckily we finally found one which is very exciting for us so we have been going through this crazy a madness of the trying to get this house for the past couple of months and it's finally over because this morning we sign the papers so we're very thankful for that hopefully this weekend we are going to get everything starting to move in so I'm going to go ahead and just preborn all of you that the vlog next Saturday is not going to be very much of a school vlog we can't even get into Wednesday and then so it's open only it will only be open on Wednesday and Thursday next week because of the holiday and my parents are coming in I have a new house I'm going to be doing some house stuff so I'm going to be showing a house blog a lot of me organizing unpacking things I want to get a lot of my kindergarten stuff set up in there a lot of my fourth grade stuff set up in there so I will be vlogging some of that but we're also wanting to do a little bit of some renovations and stuff like that like just some painting and things to that extent to kind of make the home ours so forewarning I'm like warning you now that do not expect to see a school vlog next Saturday if you don't want to see anything that has to do with my home life then don't watch the next week's vlog because it is going to be very home related I am very excited about it so I would like to capture it put it up on my channel so that I can go back later on when I'm a little bit older and be able to show my kids because my kids are going to be going into their very first home we've always lived in apartments until we came here so it's very special for them so I am excited about it just going ahead and warning you guys that this is going to happen and I am going to also tell you that if you are a little upset about not having a school vlog no worries because I am going to be posting my teacher planner walkthrough video on Wednesday mornings so be sure that you're on the lookout for that teacher planner walkthrough video I'm going to show you guys all about how I edit it I'm going to have it printed I'm going to bind it and then I'm going to walk through on how I'm actually using that planner for the 2017-2018 school year so make sure you're looking out for that video on Wednesday morning and then next Saturday it's going to be a little bit of home vlog so guys thank you so much for all of your love and support I hope that you are a little bit excited because I'm very excited that I'm going to be in this new home I'll be able to blog a little bit more at home and show you guys some of the things that I do as far as like schoolwork at home which will be really nice I haven't wanted to film a lot of here because you know I want to keep everybody's privacy right I want to be respectful of everyone's privacy so I'm trying to do that here so I'm going to go ahead and end this vlog we are very excited I'm going to go continue to pack and be a hot sweaty mess which is what I am now so I will see you guys next Wednesday and Saturday with some new videos bye

Channel: The Lettered Classroom

Views: 89,698

Rating: 4.5948334 out of 5

Keywords: ikea, vs, michaels, Classroom Tour, target, education, lesson plan, new teacher, how to teach, teacher, 4th grade, tour, elementary teacher, middle school, tips, teaching, dollar tree, cart, showdown, teacher cart, small goup cart, new house, moving, shopping, ikea haul, dollar tree haul, haul, shop with me, weekly vlog, teacher vlog, a day in the life, house shopping, dollar spot, teacher planner

Id: kDp7vZszXbE

Length: 51min 14sec (3074 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 01 2017