I am on my last ream of the 2 big cases I had purchased some years ago. I spent some time looking around everywhere, and the best I could score is $60.59 for 3 cases of 8 reams each of 20lb, 96 brightness paper, delivered.
This works out to 0.5cents a sheet for legal sized printer paper. I am not in much of a mood for spending any more time on this - so I ordered it for Wednesday delivery. This feels, however, like a very expensive price to pay for printer paper.
I remember being able to routinely score better quality (24lb, 96-98 brightness) paper for < $1 a ream = <0.2cents a sheet till a few years ago. In fact, I have never before paid more than $10 for a case of 8 or 10 reams of paper. Staples easy rebates used to be big for scoring cheap paper back in the day. They no longer seem to do that.
Has printer paper truly become very expensive? Or am I missing some trick here that the resourceful and kind Mustachians can point me towards? At the rate the kids have started running through printer paper of late - I expect to run through 10-15 reams a year, or so. So this will be a recurrent expense - and I hate spending more money than absolutely required for recurrent expenses.