Back to School
Back to School Shopping Checklist: Middle School
By Amanda Aikman
August 17, 2017It's been a long hot summer, and you're just about done with sleepovers, finding wet beach towels on the floor, and the 24-hour Taylor Swift serenades. While there's still time to ring out some happy summer memories, the back-to-school season is clearly coming into focus on the horizon. If you've got junior-high or middle-school children to shop for, now's the time to start devising your plan of attack for a stress-free and successful shopping experience.
You can start by sorting through, or better yet, having them sort through, their closets and dressers to see what can stay, what needs to go, and what's missing. This is a good opportunity to get your kids involved, giving them a little more responsibility in the back-to-school shopping duties now that they're out of elementary school. If there are no little brothers or sisters in need of hand-me-downs, it's also a chance to teach your kids the value of recycling and helping others by donating their gently worn clothing to local thrift shops or charities.
When shopping, we've heard you should take an 80/20 approach. That means that 80 percent of the items you purchase are interchangeable and durable such as solid tees, leggings and jeans, and 20 percent are the trendier kid-pleasing items that let them express their personal style. To make sure your tweens get everything they need, as well as everything they want, we've created this handy middle school Back to School Checklist to help keep you on track.
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