Frugal Village tips on kids’ backpacks
Sara Noel’s Frugal Village newspaper column for today starts with a clever tip from a reader on how to get those kids’ school backpacks to last as long as possible.
A snippet:
I put away my kids’ backpacks at the end of the school year. The following year, I buy new backpacks and then put those away at the end of the year. At the beginning of the following school year, I pull out the ones that were put away the first time, and it’s like new backpacks! This makes them last two years and avoids the “everyone else has a new backpack, and I want a new one, too” whines.
My two cents on that topic, because we really did use my daughter’s bookbags for as long as possible: Make sure you buy a good-quality bag to begin with, and then it can last two years or more. Too many backpacks that are sold as kids’ school supplies are of such poor quality they have to be junked before even one school year is done.
Posted: June 7th, 2009 under Back to school, Frugal living, High school years, K-8 students.
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