Just wanted to show off a picture of my new laminator today…
I bought it a couple of weeks ago for $15 at Aldi, believe it or not! At that price, I figured it was worth trying out. I’ve been so happy with it and have been laminating a lot of my games and flashcards.
I am off to NYC for the MTNA conference very soon!! I am very excited. I will be taking off from blogging for most of next week, but when I return I will have lots of conference notes and photos to share! I’m also looking forward to meeting some of the other piano teacher bloggers who are going.
Happy weekend!
I *love* my laminator and use it so much for teaching resources!
Have fun at the conference!
That laminator looks so cool, and it was only $15? Wow. I’m going to see if my local Aldi has one.
Looking forward to the posts about MTNA. Wish I was going!
I’m a big fan of laminating too! Unfortunately, we don’t have Aldi stores in Canada… but it’s a great deal anyways. 🙂
I bought the same laminator at my Aldi about 2 months ago, and I love it! It works really well and is such a handy resource.
I have that exact laminator. It’s fantastic. I loved it so much that I used all of the big pouches – this might sound silly, but I’m *assuming* you can just use any brand of laminating pouches with this. They don’t carry the pouches at ALDI very frequently. Any recommendations on brands for refills?
I bought these 3 mil laminating pouches from Universal
from Amazon, and they are working great!
One note of caution with the laminator. I was so excited when I first got mine that I laminated everything in sight. Then I realized that, after watching the kids try my new games for the first time, some revisions needed to be made. I couldn’t change anything by hand on the laminated game boards, so I had to throw them away, reprint & re-laminate. The laminating pouches aren’t cheap, so it made my games more expensive then they needed to be. My suggestion: try games out on at least one group of kids before you laminate to make sure the game works out as well as you imagined.