Next up: school clothes shopping
A day at the mall of “you are not wearing that to school and you don't need the $75 jeans.” She'll come down on the jeans, because she really is fine with the Holister or AE jeans that are less. I'm on to her— it's her bargaining chip! But then the skirts and shirts— ugh.
Luckily jr high girl likes my taste and says get whatever!
Oh what fun family bonding! Somehow husband will have a last minute "thing" to take care of to avoid the mall at all costs!
Have you considered the cost of socialist-entitlement school clothing.
The saving in school clothing alone MORE than paid for any curriculum I bought for our homeschool.
Bought my foster daughter a pair of nice jeans. First day of school my wife gets a call that the child is dressed inappropriately in a pair of "Daisy Dukes" My wife grabs a pair of my sweats and my read hunting suspenders.
The child wore the jeans to school went into the lavatory dumped them in the trash and put on the shorts.
My wife made her wear my sweats and suspenders for the rest of the day after she (foster brat) went through the trash to find the new jeans.
When I got home I explained to her that if she pulled a stunt like that again the only thing she would be wearing were my sweats and suspenders.
Problem solved.
My wife is thoroughly enjoying taking our 22 year old son out to buy him nice clothes for his first job as a college grad. Moms always enjoy that. It’s especially nice that he has a paycheck now and is paying for his own clothes. Of course Mom sneaks in some “treats” for him. Such a refreshing change to get his out of the college grunge look.