Back To School Haul Challenge

In Sweden we get our supplies like notebooks and pencils, erasers and folders for free at the school but if we want extra stuff like pencil cases we have to buy it ourselves. We even get free school lunches that are healthy with a lot of vegetables. ( the vegetable options is better at some schools than others)

120 is not affordable I spend 30 quid at most on school supplies in one year but slay you

YOU CALLEN THAT CHEAP!?!?

$11 for plain notebooks is cheap?

Ok but honestly my cute school supplies never cost me that much (besides the books obv there so expensive like I have 15 subjects including p.e. now, with 1 if not more textbooks in each subject)

10 notebooks and a pen, take it or leave it.

I somehow manage to keep my back to school supplies (besides new textbooks) to a very small price by just simply keeping everything from previous years. All I do is just get new pens every once in a while.

What has been helpful to me is to buy at the end of September for next year. Like buying a Halloween costume in November. I try to buy all my son’s stuff out of season, like his winter coat in summer, and bike and summer clothing in winter. Although you do need to have the luxury of having room for storage.

My school supplies consisted of the same 3 notebooks, binders, and mechanical pencils for 4 years

How to shop for back to school on a budget: When most people buy school supplies, it’s a few folders, notebooks, pencils/pens and erasers + bag and pencil case (if you need new ones). 6 notebooks = 4.50$ (75¢/per notebook). 6 folders = 3$ (50¢/per folder). 1 binder = 1-3$. Pencil case = 7-8$. Pencils = 3$ Backpack = 25-30$ (not brand name). That totals around 51$. Those are only the bare necessities and paper, tissues, hand sanitizer will all cost an extra maybe 10$? But you can always use the same backpack for many years if you take care of it! Same things with pencil cases.

I'm the uk that would have cost about £55 from tescos or asda

You really don’t need ALL of that

who needs that many notebooks and binders???

Yikes the ammount of stuff! Do you need that many binders for schoolwork nowadays?

Choosing the supplies is the fun part though... You took it from her and made it your style...

Were you supply shopping at the wrong time of year? If I want school/office supplies I always wait until they go on sale in summer. This year I bought 8 spiral notebooks for $2.40

You missed a bag 😂

I finished my school supplies shopping in 19$ and am 13yro in 8th grade.

Your voice is so calming🙃😊

My school supplies were always extremely cheap as in all I really needed was pencils and a notebook. The other stuff was bonus but often unused. And I was born in 2001. For university my school supply is mostly electronic so I don’t tend to get stationaries, but think there are definitely cheaper options and if you really want a good budget/deal on those things, buy the supplies after back to school shopping for the sales. We got paperback notebooks that were $1 for $0.19 back then. Not sure if it’d still be that cheap though. An alternative is dollar tree or dollarama for some supplies on the cheaper end