Budgeting for school shopping ~ A Teen Girl’s Perspective

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In this recession, asking our parents for money to shop for new school clothes can be very challenging.

Our families are spending more wisely and more carefully.

This means they may not give us the same amount of money they used to give us to shop for new clothes at the start of every school year.

Especially when things like college may be right around the corner.

We cannot forget we will still need to buy the usual school supplies for the different classes we are scheduled to take every year.

This school year, maybe we can start by asking our parents for a little less money than we usually ask for when thinking about buying any new school clothes items.

We can also take a careful look in our closets to see what still fits and would work well to wear to school.

Looking for the best school supply sales and staying away from the more expensive supplies with fancy designs can save lots of cash. The simple designs work just as well.

If we do these simple things, we teens show that we want to do our part to help our families save money and spend less, and spend more wisely.

Written by Danielle M. Biggs
High School Senior & Future College Student
Administrative Assistant & Trustee -- Lifeline Foundation, Inc.

Sharon M. Biggs, M.A., is a wife, mother, and 21st Century educational leader & school district administrator who serves as Co-Chair & President of Lifeline Foundation, Inc.  This 24-year educator is also Founder, Editor, and Chief Writer of LifelineExtensions.blog.  View other published works at http://www.examiner.com/.  Contact Sharon directly for more information: smbiggs@mylifelinefoundation.org.

"Children are the globe's most precious commodity." (Terence H. Biggs, Jr. ~ 2009)

A loving family is like a good pair of support hose stockings

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Many of the older women I knew growing up wore some type of support hose stockings so much so that I dreaded the day I would need to wear stockings.

My perspective was that every woman would one day need support hose, and that perspective did not make me very happy.

I just could not understand how these older women who were part of my history could be so content with what my inexperienced youthful eyes saw as a total and inexcusable fashion snafu.

Little did I know at the time that the supportive hosiery provided the otherwise stronger than Hercules (or Herculetta!) women who always seemed to move and shake and make things happen with extra added support for their tired and pressured shapely attractive legs.

A loving family and close friends who are consistent in their friendship are like a good pair of modern-day fashionable support hose stockings.

Our families and close friends come with just the right appealing and attractive stuff we need when we feel pressured and tired, as well as when we believe we are at the top of our game.

Confident and strong characters, developed capacities and charismatic personalities can sometimes lead us to believe we are empowered and enabled to “leap tall buildings in a single bound.”

Even then we may need the support of our families and close friends (who may as well be blood relatives because they too are always there for us) to support and strengthen us beyond expected and unexpected landmines that serve to snuff the strength, good character, and developed capacity right out of us.

The strong women in my life never once tried to hide their support hose because they were proud of and glad for the support the hose provided.

As we continue to pursue our passions, dreams, and true human purposes, we can confidently lean on those faithful family members and friends for the kind of support that will hold us up when we even look as if we are starting to crumble or fall to pieces.

Sharon M. Biggs, M.A., is a wife, mother, and 21st Century educational leader & school district administrator who serves as Co-Chair & President of Lifeline Foundation, Inc.  This 24-year educator is also Founder, Editor, and Chief Writer of LifelineExtensions.blog.  View other published works at http://www.examiner.com/.  Contact Sharon directly for more information: smbiggs@mylifelinefoundation.org.

 "Children are the globe's most precious commodity." (Terence H. Biggs, Jr. ~ 2009)