August is nearly half over, and hopefully you are wrapping up your back to school shopping! There are still plenty of deals on cheap school supplies at various stores.
If you do score some extra free or cheap school supplies, be sure to donate them to a local backpack drive and share with those in need.
Speaking of back-to-school, the Back to School Giveaway Bonanza is in full swing! Check out and “like” the Facebook page for all the latest updates!
Now back to the deals:
Every week throughout August, I post a Back-to-School Bargain round up to help readers find the best deals out there, shared by bloggers. The bargains are plentiful, if you know where to look.
Fellow frugal bloggers, feel free to link up your latest and greatest back-to-school deals below.
These can include school supplies, clothing, shoes, backpacks, or dorm room essentials.
To keep it neat, please link directly to your blog post, not your home page. Include the store name in your description to make it easy for readers to find. Links back to this meme to share with others are greatly appreciated!
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And talking about back to school on the cheap, I thought I’d share this with my fellow moms. My 11 year old has been nagging me about a cell phone for a year now. I just got her a TracFone for $25 at Walmart (PINK Motorola C139) along with her school supplies and she is totally static!! I figured, if I must buy her a cell phone, it might as well teach herm something. Fellow moms, would you agree with this reasoning? If I get her a prepaid plan, such as TracFone which only costs $20 a month for 60 minutes and 90 days of service, she will have to learn how to budget her minutes so that the plan will last her all month. The phone came with double minutes, so she automatically has that bonus built in for the life of the phone. I think it’s a pretty sweet deal for me since I only pay $20 a month and my bonus is peace of mind… now I can call her and find out what she’s up to. She’s happy with her brand new pink phone. Her dad’s happy cause it’s not expensive at all and now she will stop nagging him about the cell. All’s well that ends well… right moms??
my 14 yr old has virgin mobile and for $25 a month she has unlimited txt & data and 500 minutes a month AND virgin mobils has rollover minutes. Just FYI
I know that not for everyone BUT I trust my daughter and she is very open with what she does and I have full access to her phone and everything she does on the net and I randomly check on her and whenever I have I have never found anything to be worried for.