Things to do before going for back to school shopping

Often adequate planning and preparation is missing with back to school shopping. If you are a parent with kids in school going age you might want to stop for a moment and take time to plan the whole shopping process. If you blindly jump into shopping the school supplies you are likely to end up in trouble or at least end up spending more than what you should in the process. What kind of preparations are required and what kind of planning is required before you get started with the shopping process?

First you might want to get the list for shopping ready. You might already have one from the school but that is not what we mean here. You need to get your own list ready. Check what is already you have in store. You of course know that there are plenty of stationeries and other school supplies lying around here and there. Try to do a cleanup before you go for shopping. This will save you a few dollars for sure. There is no need to buy things that you already have. It is therefore important that you make your own final list based on what is already there and what you need to buy. Going one step further organize the list in such a way that most important items and items you need are on top of the list. Start shopping in the order you have listed them so that even if you should run out of funds you would have already purchased the most important items that you wanted to buy.

The next important step is budgeting. How much you want to spend or how much can you afford. Initially you may not know the price of all the items in your list but based on your last year’s expenses set a budget with five to ten percent increase. Once you have an approximate budget you should check out the other options. Wholesale backpacks could be one such option. Before just brushing aside this idea that it is not for you, try to explore a big and this will help you get a better understanding of things and help you decide whether or not you should go ahead with wholesale stores.

You might want to check the rates and the minimum order quantities from the wholesale stores so that you could place the order for bulk backpacks instead of buying them in retail quantities. Why should you order in bulk quantities and spend a lot of money upfront? You will be able to save a lot of money when you source from the wholesalers.  Besides that you do not have to worry about the quality of the backpacks even when you are spending just a fraction of the retail cost. There will be no need to buy backpacks year after year when you source from the wholesale stores as you will have abundant supplies available for the next few years.

Timothy Taylor