Back-to-school budget

[JakeandEmmasMom]

 Were you able to stay within your back-to-school budget this year?  Were you able to find some good deals on clothes and supplies?

[TassellsMark]

I havent done clothing shopping for back to school yet but I did get dd school supplies for $20

[chrissysnow22]

Ds isn't in school yet. Dh just enrolled back in school. We haven't done any back to school shopping yet.

[Stacie03]

Amazingly the only thing DD will need is a backpack. She's only in preschool, but I expected to get a few things. According to the school news letter DD's school doesn't require anything other than backpacks for the preschool - 2nd graders! We'll see if that changes by the time shes a 2nd grader.

[KenzieQsMommy]

DD is only 2.5years old so we aren't there yet

[laurag8707]

 I was able to find some extremely good deals and even stock up for next year on some things.

[laurag8707]

 For the clothing budget i stayed within it buy buying a lot of shirts and such at the thrift stores in my area. There are always awesome things at the thrift stores and I dont mind hand me downs at all. I always come out of there with things from old navy, nike and so on and nobody ever notices we get a lot of our clothes at the thrift stores.

[lizfnf]

Is it just me or did the back to school clothing sales really stink this year??  Our supplies were pretty cheap and I probably could have saved more $$ if I had waited to buy kiddos back pack/lunch box, but I wanted to make sure she got what she really wanted.  You only start kindergarten once.  Mom logic.

[Amy127]

I didn't really set a budget since I knew my ds wouldn't need much. All I had to get was 3 pairs of jeans. Got them at Old Navy for $10 each. I prefer old navy jeans because they hold up longer than other brands. I know I will be able to pass then down to the younger son. I did take my sister and brother and planeed to stay under $200, I got everything they needed and had money left. This did not include their supplies only clothes and shoes for my sister.

[diaperstodating]

My older boys who are in  8th grade, 6th grade, and 2nd grade started school this past Monday and my youngest son will start Pre K next week. I spent about $20 on all their school supplies, the most expensive thing was a $10 binder for my oldest son. I didn't have much to buy we had glue sticks, crayons, markers, scissors, colored pencils, pencils, pens, paper and notebooks from last year. My mother-in-law will buy the school clothes, which she has been doing since my oldest was in kindegarten.