Recommendations for tough school bag for boys

****kara****

when I popped into Asda today they had nice grey school bag reduced from £7.50 to £2.25. At that price it might be worth stockng up on a few

peachyprice

Mine have always fared well with Nike or Reebok rucksacks from Sports Direct £10 - £12.

Eager_Elephant

My son also went through bags very quickly, I read on another forum about Karrimor bags.

I think we paid about £30 which seems a lot but not if you are replacing bags every few months. He has used the bag for 2 full years so far and is now using it for the 3rd year.

The bag is fine and no amount of pulling breaks it, the only problem is DS lost the string you pull to tighten it but that might be because he is very disorganised and forgot to mention it needed rethreading although it is fine without it.


Meant to say we got his bag from Millets.

This is similar to the one my son has http://www.karrimor.com/catalog/rucsacs/kodiak-35

EE

Broomstick

This may be completely off-track but I thought I'd mention it. You say that your son is 12, dyspraxic and has just started secondary school. There's no chance that he's being bullied and the damage is being caused by other children is there?

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basill

Something from the army surplus shop?

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Indie_Kid

Something like Nike? Does he have a locker at school?

celyn90

A day pack from an outdoor store - somethings like Karrimor or the North Face. I have a Victorianox rucksack and it's indestructable; it came from TXMaxx originally so was really reasonable.

Savvy_Sue

Broomstick wrote: »

This may be completely off-track but I thought I'd mention it. You say that your son is 12, dyspraxic and has just started secondary school. There's no chance that he's being bullied and the damage is being caused by other children is there?

If not being bullied, it may not all be his fault. Once damage starts, it's very tempting for other people to interfere, IYSWIM.

It's hard to get the balance right on size, but it does help if the bag is plenty big enough, rather than an effort to jam everything in.

A drawstring with flap is probably less vulnerable than a zip, but mine always preferred the zip.

onlyroz

Buy a hideous, grey, indestructible canvas bag like this one. That'll teach him to wreck the "trendy" one you bought him...

Vaila

i actually quite like that bag!! my brother has a small rucksack that some guy from the navy gave him, its lasted years and is a bit different to the branded rucksacks . id say go to tkmaxx and have a look at their leather holdalls or satchells even hm and topman have a good quality selection