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How Much Are You Spending on School Supplies?



via PixabayAugust brings back-to-school items to the top of every parent's shopping list. But how much are families spending for their children's school supplies?

When you think of "back-to-school" items, you think of pencils, pens, notebooks, glue, highlighters, lunchboxes, etc. These items don't seem like they'd cost a lot, but you'd be surprised. Journalists at Huffington Post Canada decided to use a collection of school supply lists from 5th grade teachers and school boards across Canada to do some back-to-school shopping. After tallying up the bills, they realized that there was much more to shopping for school supplies than buying a few pens and notebooks.

According to Jacob MacDonald's article in HuffPost Canada, the school supply lists ranged from detailed to minimalist. This gave the researchers a good sample from which to pull data. Using this information, they were able to estimate how much families are expected to spend on back-to-school supplies in each province.

Here's a breakdown of back-to-school spending by region (not all provinces and territories were researched):
  • British Columbia: $65.00 per child
  • Alberta: $74.00 per child
  • Saskatchewan: $66.00 per child
  • Manitoba: $119.00 per child
  • Ontario: $66.00 per child
  • Quebec: $121.00 per child
  • Newfoundland and Labrador: $80.00 per child
  • New Brunswick: $179.00 per child
  • Nova Scotia: $146.00 per child
To save money on back-to-school supplies for your child, try to conserve items and save them for next year. If this means purchasing certain items--such as pens, notebooks and binders--in bulk, you should do so to save money.

For the full report on the HuffPost Canada study, click here.

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