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Posted: 8/20/2008 4:34:20 AM | Right,i have just returned from buying school uniforms!
I need a few shots of brandy and some prozac i think.
There is only 1 shop in my town that sells the high school uniform,and after seing it open today decided to pop in as its been shut the last few times ive been past.
I was feeling good about my bank balance after my holidays but have walked away from uniform shopping `£300 lighter!
How many others have children going up to high school,and think that the price of uniforms these days is frightening?
They cant just have anything now,it all has to have the school logo embriodered on.
Bring back plain jumpers,shirts and ties i say.
Most of us dont get any help towards the cost of it either!
 rant over sorry but im in shock | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 4:38:33 AM | £300 is far to much, I remember my uniform, black shoes, black trousers, white shirt and a school tie and blazer.
It should be a given that you get help with school uniform from the school, after all they are the one's who don't want kids going in hoods and ripped jeans. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 4:45:41 AM | My friends kid was in the brownies, but they had to take her out as the cost for the kit was £190.....!
when did scouting/girl guides etc, become so pricey.? | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 4:46:00 AM | cant comment on myself,but brother recently payed £250 for uniforms,it would be handier if kids didnt grow. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 4:50:13 AM | Fookin Aida!
Ouch, bless ya!
I'm of a similar opinion that there should be more help with uniforms, I used to have to wear regluation skirts, blouse and blazer with tie too. My poor Mum how did she manage?
I think the shop knows full well it's the only one with the uniforms so they can charge what they like.
It should be schools that buy and sell the uniforms and also perhaps have a second hand uniform sale too.My old schools did.
I know it's not nice for kids to have second hand uniforms but if folks realy have limited funds it's a means to an end.
Also if the schools had controll over uniform sales they could put any profits back into the school.
OP I hope they don't grow too much in this new term! | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 4:50:31 AM | I got more stuff to get they didnt have no rugby shirts n stuff in and i havnt even got thier school shoe's yet and i have to get adult sizes as they are so big.
When i was at school most of us kids were the same size my boys are as tall as some blokes now and keep growing taller!
Suppose atleast its over and done with over the next few years and then maybe i can start having some of my wage.
Guess im not going out this weekend | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 4:53:30 AM | Lalby i am with you on this one.
2 kids to kit out,youngest not too bad as she does not require labelled stuff so she cost me approx £80 including shoes and trainers.
The teenagers senior school stuff has to be purchased from the school with their logo's on everything and the stuff is actually really bad quality so gets replaced at least 2 times a year.
3x shirts 2 x fleeces 1x rugby shirt 1x shorts 1 x tracksuit bottoms 1 x airtex shirt...all with logo aprox £120 the lot.
Named trainers,nice shoes and trousers with a certain red label on them because she will get the p1ss ripped out of her if she wears any others another £100
Add on new school bag and stationary and i am officially skint | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 4:57:10 AM | My sons uniform cost me , for the pack ,, £45.00
not bad if you buy them straight from the school | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 5:11:34 AM | I reckon the guy who owns the shop is laughing all the way to the bank,only 2 high schools in the area he does the uniform for both.
We were told by the school that this shop was the only place to get them,i think they must get commission,for sports gear n such.
Well i shall have worked all month for nothing by the time im finished,forgot about bags n stuff
Do most schools make it compulsary for the kids to wear thier coats even?? at £35 each for a thin waterproof with a little fleece lining is not on! | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 5:16:33 AM |
Do most schools make it compulsary for the kids to wear thier coats even?? at £35 each for a thin waterproof with a little fleece lining is not on!
They make it a preference but it's not compulsary.
I brought one for my daughters first senior year 3 yrs ago and she has refused to wear it,she also refused to wear the bright blue rugby socks too and who can blame her! | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 5:24:14 AM | There's nothing new in this Lalby.
I remember my dear old Dad exclaiming "Ouch"! as I was kitted out for school a bit more than thirty years ago
Thirty years ago I was kitting my kids out, and again came a scream of fiscal pain!
It's a captive market, for so many reasons you have to go down that path, there's been a grizzle about it for more than half a century, but the people that can do anything about it, WON'T.
They are the Pollies, who because of their position in the community, either own the shops or their supporters/ family do.
Your chances of winning here are a good bit less than nil. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 5:28:56 AM | Shiiit! £300 on school clothes, thats insane!
We used to get vouchers, admittedly the shoes were like young Forrest Gumps and the jumpers came pre-bobbled, but we was 'appy!
EDIT: No we weren't! It was feckin miserable, I hated being a poor kid, on dinner tickets, having to take up smoking so I could sell fags for 10p to tun a small profit behind the bike shed, where I met my first love, Thingy Whatsername, ehh, that girl could suck the chrome off a chrome thing! | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 5:31:35 AM | Ive got 2 lads in secondary, and my 2 girls are in Primary school!
I estimated a while ago, that with the cost of uniforms, tracksuits, blazers, school bags, shoes, stationary, school books that it costs me in the region of 700 euros each for the 2 boys and around 400 each for the 2 girls!
Thats 2200 euros, just for my children to get back to school.
Theres a scheme here in Ireland for a Back To School Allowance.....for each child in Secondary School you receive 305 euros, and 200 for the primary school kids......and guess what......i didnt receive any of it......why???...........for being 19 euros per week over the income limit........makes ya wanna go back on the dole | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 7:07:36 AM | Twas always thus Cailin,
Which is why root and branch restructuring of taxation systems needs to be applied across the spectrum.
That, and publically disembowelling all politicians across the world. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 8:11:28 AM | the only thing i buy that's specific to the school is my daughters school tie...
the shirts, trousers, shoes etc come from tesco/asda. the school does have jumpers, blazers etc with the logo's stitched on but none of the kiddies wear them. i dont even know what they look like. i think the actual colour of the school trousers is navy blue but the children all refuse to wear blue and all turn out in black.
the kids all dress the same, so... mission accomplished! | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 8:51:56 AM | | well my son has left skol this time so i wont have to buy uniform anymor,bt when i did yes i did get help frm the vouchers,bt that was only enough to buy my son 1 polo shirt 1ppair of pe shorts,and a pair of pants and that hardly adds up to a uniform,how ever ppl on benefits now dont get any help at all wen it comes to skol clothes.and i think the worse thing they did was put logos on t shitrs and jumpers,even on pe kit,as this meens that you carnt just nip down the market and get cheep you have to pay the high prices of the ripoff shops.and its even hard to get a second hand blaser now becouse the skol badge is sewn into the poket unlike the ones that are senw on so you could change them .am i glad i only had 1 child,god help you lot that carried on and had 2,3,4 or even more. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 10:05:55 AM | I think we're all in the same boat...I have two girls who have grown so quickly in the past few months that none of their uniorm from last year fits, so I have had to spend quite a bit getting them kitted out again for school in a few weeks time.
It just meant cutting the summer vacation short. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 10:30:53 AM | Surely the best solution would be to do away with school uniforms
There is only 1 shop in my town that sells the high school uniform
Is there not some law against monopolies/cartels/restrictive practices ? | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 10:33:43 AM | Aw, i thought we were talking like sexy uniforms.
Female police officers are the best!
Now please, as you were... | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 10:43:49 AM | Lol my sexy uniforms cost nowhere near what a school 1 does and looks better!!
I'm glad its not just me thats been had,i was thinking they saw me coming.
Well they have promised to be on best behavier as they cant believe i spent so much money on them when its not even christmas
Its nice they appreciate it tho and i got hugs look very smart to,but does make me feel old  | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 10:54:40 AM | i did see senior school skirts in woolworths for a pound today age 13/14 15/16 however... would a teenage girl wear the styles in woolworths?? i doubt it
i am still managing with emily as she hasnt cought on to the real desire of the high street fashion yet..although its coming !! so i got her a school skirt for 3 quid in the sale .. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 10:56:20 AM | | im going friday for mine, with 4 to kit out im dreading it, anyone got any spare prozac? | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 10:58:48 AM | You can have some of mine i will share cause i know Bailey grows as fast as my 2.
Its either that or absolute???? go in pleasently pissed and it wont feel so bad. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 11:37:00 AM | Aaaaaaaaarrrrggggggghhhh ....
Uniforms .... My son is 14 and touching 6 foot 3. Going into year 10 ... Trousers with an inside leg length of longer than 32"?? Try trebling the price of department store uniform trousers and that's what I paid in the specialist uniform shop, £23 a pair... Blazers, £24 in Marks and Spencers or John Lewis, my son's? £50 because his arms are too long!!!! I am disgusted, his uniform has cost me almost £150 more than a standard uniform just because he is tall ... Oh and his uniform IS a white shirt, black trousers, black blazer and school tie.. The blazer badge is bought separately and sewn on...
We had the shoppers in M&S in hysterics, they have a measuring stick with the height and age divisions on them to make it easy to get the correct size, age goes up to 16 (obviously) .. My son stood next to it and age 16 came to his chin !!! I am sick of companies catering for small kids, heavy kids and skinny kids but never ever cater for tall kids .... It's a new ism I tell you... Tallism ... These stores are tallist!!!!!!
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Posted: 8/20/2008 11:46:28 AM | ^^^^^
Pants dont forget they are shoe sizeist as well!!. I have to pay adult prices for trainers and shoes for my 13 yr old as the childrens ones stop at a size 5 and a half. | |
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