The Budget Fashionista

Does anyone else actually look forward to back to school shopping? While making it work financially is always a challenge for us (seeing as we prefer to pay cash for our purchases rather than go to credit) I still love picking up new items for my kids—it’s almost as much fun as shopping for myself.

That being said, I wanted to know where you love to shop for Back to School clothing—whether your in school yourself and shopping or outfitting your kids.

We love JC Penneys (great sales), Target (especially for young men), Payless, Famous Footwear (for brand name sneaks), and actually WalMart has some good looking Junior girls stuff this year.

Now your turn—where do you go?

fortunately those days are long gone. But back in the day, here in Canada it was Zellers. Nowadays there is Walmart, Winners and even Superstore has some clothes and school supplies for less.

When the kids were in elementary school, WalMart, Target, JC Penney.  Once they hit middle school I figured up a clothes budget for the beginning of the year (we never bought TONS of clothes before school started; got stuff they needed and then bought thru the year) and basically let the kids get what they wanted (with my approval).  For things they NEEDED (say a new winter coat), that was a different budget and we shopped together for it.  So in elementary school I might have bought my daughter 4 pairs of inexpensive jeans, later she would take the same money and buy 2 pairs of jeans.  And be happier about it, and wear them a lot.  If I were shopping for them now, I’d also go to Steve and Barry’s.