Making every penny count

scrooge2008

Good afternoon 40SM the first.

Thanks to discussions on your thread earlier in the week, I totalled up what I will have spent on my DS this school year and I was shocked :eek::-

School trips - £300.00
School shoes - £140.00 (including trainers/wellingtons/plimsoles)
School uniform - £70.00
School photographs - £20.00
School coffee mornings/fetes/b-b-q's/charities - £80
Obligatory outfit for school play - £30.00
School milk money - £33.00 (£11.00 a term)
Additional spend for clothes needed for school activity holiday/trip - £50.00
School swimming - £52.00

Total spend - £775.00 or £64.00 a month and I didn't even have a budget category for this. (I do now ).

My DS is at a regular village school, and takes packed lunches to school. How do families manage???? My hat goes off to you with three kids!!

angela110660

scrooge2008 wrote: »

Good afternoon 40SM the first.

Thanks to discussions on your thread earlier in the week, I totalled up what I will have spent on my DS this school year and I was shocked :eek::-

School trips - £300.00
School shoes - £140.00 (including trainers/wellingtons/plimsoles)
School uniform - £70.00
School photographs - £20.00
School coffee mornings/fetes/b-b-q's/charities - £80
Obligatory outfit for school play - £30.00
School milk money - £33.00 (£11.00 a term)
Additional spend for clothes needed for school activity holiday/trip - £50.00
School swimming - £52.00

Total spend - £775.00 or £64.00 a month and I didn't even have a budget category for this. (I do now ).

My DS is at a regular village school, and takes packed lunches to school. How do families manage???? My hat goes off to you with three kids!!

When my sons were young - we did not have MSE (sadly) and just lurched from one month to the next for school things, cub/scout trips etc etc. Then once we had MSE to guide us and our daughter had come along - we saw the error of our ways and set up a monthly pot for her. What a godsend it has been to pay for her activities, trips and even towards a ski trip this year to Austria - not the total cost but a good way towards it.

macgirl

For the last 6 years we have forked out for astronomical nursery/out of school club fees.
Little DD starts school in September and I have been counting the days. It's like a small chink of light at the end of a looooong tunnel.

However, a friend keeps reminding me sagely that "You never get that money back"
She says it just gets diverted into clubs, hobbies and school (and the need for more expensive Christmas and birthday gifts :cool:).

Already I can see evidence of this. DD1 goes to ballet (£4), swimming(£6) and french lessons(£8.50) every week and she's not even 6 yet :eek:
Thank goodness little DD is quite lazy, so she's a bit cheaper! :rotfl:

40somethingmum

scrooge2008 wrote: »

Good afternoon 40SM the first.

Thanks to discussions on your thread earlier in the week, I totalled up what I will have spent on my DS this school year and I was shocked :eek::-

School trips - £300.00
School shoes - £140.00 (including trainers/wellingtons/plimsoles)
School uniform - £70.00
School photographs - £20.00
School coffee mornings/fetes/b-b-q's/charities - £80
Obligatory outfit for school play - £30.00
School milk money - £33.00 (£11.00 a term)
Additional spend for clothes needed for school activity holiday/trip - £50.00
School swimming - £52.00

Total spend - £775.00 or £64.00 a month and I didn't even have a budget category for this. (I do now ).

My DS is at a regular village school, and takes packed lunches to school. How do families manage???? My hat goes off to you with three kids!!

Thanks Scrooge .:) That is a scary amount of money:eek: I dread to think how much I spend over the year ...better find if I want to stay in budget;)

40somethingmum

Just been looking back through my cheque book and can see that since the kids went back to school on the 2Oth April I have spent the following :

£20 DS1 trip to theatre
£10.50 DS1 trip to Winchester
£28.50 Ds3 football club
£7.50 ( £2.50 each) to watch performance of a play in school.

That was only 8 days of school:eek:

No wonder I am skint:o

honeybear_2

:eek::eek::eek:

There's a lot to be said for the times of sending children up chimneys...

*hugs*

40somethingmum

honeybear wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek:

There's a lot to be said for the times of sending children up chimneys...

*hugs*

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Hello my darling ! Have not seen you in diary land lately have you been MIA ??? Hope you are ok. PM me if you need to chat;)

Different_Corner

I dare not go there. My eldest leaves in two weeks, not before a paintballing trip and his prom ticket/outfit are paid for. Have to do it all again in two years...

40somethingmum

Morning DC,

Anything nice planned for today ??:)

Different_Corner

Yes 40sm, pottering ! I love it...bit of this bit of that. Seems to get things done.
Have 100 pages of my book left and that will be my treat later, you know when you want to finish it, but savour it . Ahh simple things....