Organize Your School Shopping

This may be a little late for all but the most pitiful procrastinators (that would be me!) but I wanted to see how organized you all are. This is what my sister does.

Before they even begin their shopping, she goes through her kid’s closets with them. They try everything on for her. They get rid of anything that doesn’t fit or they don’t wear and then she makes a list of what they need to complete their wardrobe for the year. She takes her list shopping with them so they don’t come home with 3 more pairs of camo pants when they already have 4 in their closet. They don’t have to discover later that they now own 5 black tank tops. They have everything they need, they saved time and they saved money. Voila! Organized back to school!

I’ve never been back-to-school shopping with my kids. Since we home school I figured we didn’t need to. This year I decided we might be missing out on some splendid sales so I went. I was a miserable failure. For all the reasons that I have never been before. I just couldn’t focus with all those crowds and long lines. Nothing looked good. I didn’t know there were so many ugly clothes out there. Who is buying all this cheap-looking (in more ways than one), hideous stuff?

Persistence and I finally decided to give up and look at jewelry. I came home with a killer of a deal on a pair of gold earrings. I think next year we will go back to skipping the back-to-school sales. But good luck to the rest of you!