What 'Back to School' stuff do you still need to buy?

caseystar

My Ds is in primary school and his uniform is quite basic, i do have to buy the school jumpers with the logo on. But everything else can be bought from most Supermarkets. They are even allowed to wear trainers.

My Dd is starting secondary school this year and although the uniform isn't too bad it has cost double to kit her out than it did Ds. Certain jumpers with logo, certain P.E tops with logo. Certain shoes and dark coats only.

I bought shoes last Friday and that was me finished. Well, for a couple of weeks until my Ds needs his shoes replaced.

moomoomama27

Got it all at the beginning of August, so I could not do my usual dash! Got shoes a few days ago, labelled and all set to go back next week!

mummyroysof3

I need to iron eldest shirts as they came in a packet. I need to try all youngests on but should be ok and my daughter didn't need anything other than shoes which I got a few weeks ago.

LEJC

My son last night piped up..."have you bought my new games kit?"....and a look of surprise registers across mine and OH's faces....

Apparently as hes moving to the higher school theres a different kit....needs to be bought from a specialist shop...£150 and he needs it Monday afternoon.

He doesnt much like games and the information slipped his mind all holiday!!!

fluffnutter

I noticed that many of the shops had 'back to school' displays before the holidays had even started! Talk about putting a dampener on things

Spendless

We went shopping yesterday. Youngest (10) starts back tomorrow. Eldest (13) Wednesday.

Before going I got all uniform out of drawers, wardrobes etc and placed it on the kitchen table. Daughter's one side, son's the other. Then all in seperate piles eg PE, trousers, shirts, jumpers. We then went by them one by one trying on. Anything beyond redemption went in the rag-bag recycling pile. Anything good but no longer fitting in charity pile. Then I did a list of what we needed to 'top up'.

At Matalan we bought DS shirts and trousers, DD a coat and both new underwear. In Brantano taking DD's broken (less than a month old!) sandalls back meant £20 towards ds's new shoes. We finished off in Sports Direct for football boots (DS) and new shorts for both. Bill for all this £103.

Today I went to son's school and got 1 new jumper and a spare tie for £19..