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Tips for Saving
• Source as much as you can from your kids’ existing supplies.
• Try doing the whole shop online. Your kids will get a lesson in navigating the Internet as well as in comparison shopping. Look for sites that offer free shipping.
• For younger kids especially, how about trades? Your kindergartener may have lost interest in her Princess lunchbox and willingly trade it for a friend’s Hello Kitty one.
• Can some items wait till a week or two after school begins? Then you can pick up post-back-to-school-frenzy sale items.
• To incentivize bargain hunting, make it clear that your child can keep whatever money is left over from the back-to-school shop.
KIRSTEN DENKER is a freelance writer and mother of two, living in Brooklyn.