Originally Posted by squirt661

I can feel your pain in footing the expense for all this un-needed stuff. I went thru that garbage also, being left with 6 year old twins, and a 3 year old son, and as a single parent, I made it work, it was hard, but glad my 3 kids are now grown, and now have kids of their own to worry about. Are they in a private school, because I know public schools usually do not require this stuff. And like catdance, who made me chuckle, I have 5 cats to worry about now, and they could care less about how they dress. Hope nobody takes this as an insult, because that is not how I meant it. Good luck to you.