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Moms View Message Board: General Discussion: Archive August 2006: Price for 2 kids (clothes)
going into 3rd and 6th grades $313.13 lol i was like well we need to put some of these shirts back they said no they didn't want to i said fine but are you going to help pay for this and they said yeah well nick saw the total bill and he was like well we can put some of these shirts back lol i was like nope we are getting them = ) i might change my mind after Daniel sees how much it is but honestly for 8 pairs of jeans plus 13 and 14 shirst for the boys that's not too bad...
shirts that is lol = )
You are lucky.. I have 2 girls 6th and 4th and I have spent almost that much on just one of them (the older one had a huge growth spirt this summer and nothing but her jeans fit her anymore), but it did include shoes and shirts but only 2 pair of pants. I am not looking forward to my younger one starting to only want brand name clothes.. It is outrageous. And that was at places like JC Penny and Kohls and even Target for a few T-shirts.
My parents rule when growing up was if we want designer instead of wal-mart or kmart they would pitch in what the wal-mart or kmart cloths would cost we pay the difference. It worked well and it is the same rule in my house when the kids get old enough to want designer stuff.
I don't think I can get by that cheap. Junior-size clothes are expensive! LOL!
We never did the back to school shopping thing. I shop for them year round. We love the outlet mall. I will buy a size bigger if it is seasonal. Living in the south though, they generally wear everything year round.
I don't normally do "back to school" clothes shopping but this year none of her shirts fit her anymore. Junior clothes are much more expensive. As for the brand name stuff well it is hard to make her "pay" for part of them when she is only 11 and doesn't do anything to make money, so our deal is she does extra chores around the house to pay for them. I want her to like the clothes she has so she will actualy wear them so I try to buy what she likes. That doesn't mean taht I let her get all Mudd or whatever is "in" today. It just means we don't have to go with the cheapest thing out there. It was soo funny when we were shopping. My DD would tell me mom I can't get this shirt it is too expensive becasue it was over $12... I was like.. almost everything is over $12. we will just have to see. I guess she is very observant when it comes to how much things are.
I have an obsession with clothes. Luckily, I live in an area where clearance sales are dirt cheap on name brands. I am a bargain shopper!
I shop at consignment shops for my boys, but DD usually can't find *her* styles there. I took the 9 and 10 year olds to Wal*Mart last night to put backpacks, binders, and school supplies on layaway....almost $100! 8-0 I'm so glad my teenagers are doing their own.....oldest DS is going off to college, so school supplies takes on a whole new meaning!! I don't know how any of us manage it anymore with the prices of things!
I'll spend about $250 getting all the pieces to my son's uniform, not counting shoes. I think the uniform shoes are about $50. Uniforms are supposed to be cheaper (ha ha), but with growth spurts you have to keep buying pieces. I think you did very good!
I spent about $250 to $300 on uniforms, shoes, and school supplies. Wouldn't be too bad except that he's switching schools this year so I have to buy everything new. The uniforms, etc. that I bought last year got worn for two weeks until Katrina and then we homeschooled. They are brand new so I'm donating them. Both public and private schools wear uniforms but they are so picky that I don't think it's cheaper. Plus, they need regular clothes (not as much though) for weekends and after school. Uniforms are easy each morning so I don't really mind.
My youngest (17), will wear anything. Walmart is fine with him. I still buy his clothes because he is so easily pleased. My 18 y/o, however, is another story. Everything has to be Abercrombie this, and American Eagle that. Yet, this is the same kid that I have to say to him, "go shave before you go to work. You look like a werewolf".
Do you know that my ex husb took the boys shopping while they were in New Orleans and actually bought them some nice clothes!!! I nearly fainted when they came home.
We do have TJ Maxx. I never heard of Ross. It would be nice to have an Old Navy where we live! We are in this no-man's land, being 50 miles from Milwaukee and about 60 miles from Green Bay. We don't have any of the really cool stores here! So, my kids really don't wear Aeropostale, American Eagle and Abercrombie and Fitch, because we have to drive so far to get to them.
Dawn, 20 yrs ago we had to drive 2 hrs to get too a decent mall. Then we got some good stores in the mall about 20 min away and now we have a new mall going in literally 3 minutes from my house!!! It opens in Oct., so I am not sure on all the stores that will be there. I know that we will have a Dillards, JCpenneys, AE, Abercrombie, Coldwater Creek, and many others... IMAX theatre. I am so excited. LOL
I grew up with very few clothes. It was difficult. I vowed that my kids will always be well dressed.
We went to Walmart but it wasn't about name brand lol it was just expensive to me.. = )it was nicholas and he wanted certain shirts that would of been less money probably if i would of picked them out.Tonya it was the same way in our family if you wanted designer or more than i think it was $200 we had to purchase our own i think that's a good idea.I think by nick and alex having to pay for their stuff they are learning responsibility too so that's okay they wanted more than i was willing to get them lol = )
Well i also Made Nick get 2 nice tops and all he said was well i'm only going to wear them on picture day and at home lol = ) well i guess he will get some use out of them = )
also i usually do the clearance thing too but i really can't afford to buy them straight out right now and i can't go to meijer because their layaway is closed right now until get this Aug.13 just in time for school to start... geeeshh
Speaking of uniforms my dd is starting middle school this fall and her school has uniforms. I am having the hardest time finding yellow blouses..Not polos but button up blouses. I can find white or blue but not yellow. Any tips on where to look?
Ummmmmmmmmmmm eBay? LOL Google it, you may be surprised what comes up.
Found this:
THESE come in yellow as well.
The uniform store we have to buy uniforms from will sometimes allow non-member schools to buy pieces. Maybe you have a uniform store in your area to find yellow? Also check Lands End.
Lands End
We USED to have a Penney's store, but they closed it and put a Hobby Lobby there.
I found some online! There is a bigger variety than I thought! Thanks for the advice. :-)
We are in the boondocks, too. It is 50 miles to Providence to the NICE mall. It is 35 miles to the "just okay" mall in Warwick, both north of us. We also have another nice mall about 25 miles to the south of us, in Connecticut. We only have JC Penney and Walmart within a ten mile drive. Also, an Applebee's.
As much as I love to go to the mall, I love online shopping more! I almost always find online coupons for free shipping or 10% off, or so much off orders over a certain amount.
DD is going into 4th and we went school shopping today. Usually we pretty much buy what we want and she has always been very well dressed, ( I love shopping) but she really hasn't cared until now. I decided I need to be paying better attention to what I spend so I told her we will take 400.00 cash with us and when it's gone we are done. She found lots at Target she wanted and then 200.00 later she was upset to think she didn't have a lot left to spend. It made her realize that if you buy a shirt in every color then you don't have as much to spend later. This was the best thing I could have done. At first she was sulky about it but after awhile we talked and she realized that many of her friends don't have half that to spend. We went to Kohls, Marshalls and Old Navy and she did a great job of choosing things that went together and seemed pretty proud of herself.
I LOVE Old Navy. The clothes are very reasonable, and they hold up well, too. Plus, it's the only place where DS Mike can get a good fit with jeans.
I just went to Target today and got my kids some school clothes. I had a 10% off your bill coupon so we got dd some clothes for 2nd grade and ds some clothes for kindergarten. He was funny. The only shirts he wanted were tank tops! LOL I had to inform him that it wasn't going to be summer forever.
I hate the adjustable waists and every pair of pants seem to have them now lol = )
I love Old Navy too. However, today a friend told me she was boycotting Old Navy b/c they make thongs for kids!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe it? Why would they do that???
Well, we gave Sarah an Old Navy gift card, for her birthday, so I'm sure we will be going there, eventually. I wish we had one in town. We have to drive an hour, either north or south, to find one, around here!
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I totally don't get the name brand thing. It's not like the clothes are quality made. I told him that they are all probably made in the same sweatshop. However, if they sew that little "moose" or whatever it is, on it, the price goes up at least twenty dollars. 
argh