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Saving on back to school supplies for students of all ages is essential when the costs of everything else are sharply increasing. Perhaps this back to school guide can help you to begin saving on back to school supplies that will last well into the school year.

It seems as if every high school or college student requires a multitude of pens, which are often lost in those first days. Avoid the high cost of these replacements but heading to eBay and grabbing bulk pens that you can purchase. Look for pen lots of there, which often contain pens that the printer misprinted on or orders, which were simply canceled after the pens, were created. This is a back to school money saving idea I have used just about every year since I discovered it as my kids tend to loss them often. To view a recent listing of multiple lots of back to school pens on eBay click here.

Every year Wal-Mart sells those small one-subject notebooks for ten cents, and it is a great deal. Think about this money saving back to school idea for notebooks, because there are 24 notebooks in a case, and you get enough notebooks to last the entire school year. Truthfully when you look at these dime notebooks in this way you get a great deal as they are 70 pages each, times that by the 24 notebooks. You are getting 1680 pages for a mere $2.40 and that sure beats the price of those 500 page notebooks for $4 to $5 dollars apiece. This is a great money saving idea for back to school items for families on a budget.

Many people tend to avoid the malls when it comes to back to school clothes, but there are discount retailers in some malls that will help you save money. Instead of high-class malls shop in an outlet mall and save big on these back to school clothes. You could also save big by shopping in the S & A boutique without the children; some towns have a Salvation Army thrift store. The S & A boutique also gets new clothing with store tags on them and this can help you save on those back to school clothing costs. EBay also has some awesome deals on lots of clothing you can use for school days. Check out some of those clothing lots for girls or boys.

Shoes are another big cost when it comes to back to school shopping, and since my teenage boys wear size 13 and 14 shoes we cannot just buy them off the shelf in Wal-Mart. I can locate bigger shoes on eBay at a fraction of the cost that I would pay at a specialty store. Out there last year I bought a size 14 Addis high top shoes brand new for less then $25.00 dollars total, and on the Addis site, the same shoes were over $100 dollars plus shipping.

Using a different approach to your back to school shopping can save you tons of money. Shop smart and save big on back to school shopping this year.

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