Remember when finding comfort school meant getting a few notebooks, a fresh box of crayons, and new shoes? If you wore a uniform university, you most likely got one of those too; if not, you got a few new outfits. That has been it.

Well, times have changed. The availability list now contains items which used to be given by the colleges – like scissors, glue and tissues. Every child wants a new backpack, notebooks, paper, pens (red, blue and black), glue sticks, ruler, tape, scissors, markers, folders and a calculator. For those who have two children and you shop the sales, you can still wind up coughing up a lot more than $100.00 in supplies alone. Which doesn’t even count the brand new clothes your child “has to have” or the fees which are required for art projects, lab costs, etc.

Don’t even get me started on the supplies, including furniture and appliances, your kids needs for school. Should it ever end?

Here are some tips to save cash on painting supplies this season.

1) Recycle – Check to see whatever you already have at home. You probably have assorted crayons, markers, colored pencils, etc. available your home. Put these together in the pencil box and that should save you a couple of bucks.

2) Re-use – Kids believe last year’s backpack needs to go, however a quick trip from the washer may provide it new life.

3) Reduce – Does your son or daughter possess a notebook from recently containing three pages of written material in it and 77 blank pages left? Would you find this notebook from the trash can – or worse – the trash? Might be a great time to discuss waste and keeping it as small as possible by getting one of the most use possible from every item.
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