Kids/school=EXPENSIVE!!

We are going to have to take out a loan to get my son and step son thru school this year!

Any of ya with kids, know what I mean?? These boys are in 8th and 9th grade, and holy moly....

Between fees when they got enrolled, lunches,football pictures,fees for Ag class and tech class.....and whatever else they need $$$ for!!

Wow!! LOL!!! It gets costly!!

I'm putting myself through college so I can totally relate! Heck, average cost for books alone for college is $150-200 per class!

I feel your pain.. My daughter started school on the 8/15, and she's just in half day kindergarten.. And that was expensive..

Clothes, fees, books, breakfast/lunches, candy to sell.. The whole gammett is soo expensive!!

The list of school supplies for daughter starting 4th grade came to $70!

Yeah, gone are the days when all you needed to buy were:

shorts
sneakers
10 scribblers
pens
pencils
erasers

My friend was telling me all that her kids needed for school. It was almost $500.00 for 2 kids!

Originally Posted by catloverin_ks

We are going to have to take out a loan to get my son and step son thru school this year!

Any of ya with kids, know what I mean?? These boys are in 8th and 9th grade, and holy moly....

Between fees when they got enrolled, lunches,football pictures,fees for Ag class and tech class.....and whatever else they need $$$ for!!

Wow!! LOL!!! It gets costly!!

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My two cost me an arm and a leg this year!

The school uniforms my school (state run school in England where many have uniforms) were close to 200 pounds / $400 US each too without supplies

I think so far school supplies have been about $50 or so. I had to get dd#2 a new backpack this year. $50 from LL Bean. The rolling one she got last year had a hole in it, so it needed to be replaced. But it's only a small hole, compared to the backpack she had the year before hand that should have been replaced in Feb when it started falling apart.

I have yet to buy clothes. It's still warm enough here in Sept for the girls to wear shorts and capris to school. I will probably have to buy new jeans for them soon though, from how they've been eating lately, they must be growing. I do wish we had uniforms though, it would make school clothes shopping easier.

My girls are going into 8th and 5th grade.

Originally Posted by Sneakymom

I think so far school supplies have been about $50 or so. I had to get dd#2 a new backpack this year. $50 from LL Bean.

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Trust me... it's worth what you paid. I have an LLBean backpack from Highschool that is still in great shape some 10+ years later!