Comments on: Time to place an order http://mtpleasant.homeschooljournal.net/2006/04/28/45/ Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.....� Thomas Henry Huxley Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:29:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.4 By: Andrea (admin) http://mtpleasant.homeschooljournal.net/2006/04/28/45/#comment-53 Andrea (admin) Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:24:24 +0000 http://mtpleasant.homeschooljournal.net/2006/04/28/45/#comment-53 Well, we spent less than $200 for the whole year, but I don't count things that we would do anyway, or boosk we buy "just because' that they also happen to learn from. :) Nobody is in any lessons or classes this year either. We're also far into the relaxed/unschooling end of things and have done away with most workbooks. We read a LOT of books from the library and second hand, whether or not they are considered "school" books. (although I did get some for Emam recently, big 300+ page ones for THREE bucks apiece. :O) Well, we spent less than $200 for the whole year, but I don’t count things that we would do anyway, or boosk we buy “just because’ that they also happen to learn from. :) Nobody is in any lessons or classes this year either. We’re also far into the relaxed/unschooling end of things and have done away with most workbooks. We read a LOT of books from the library and second hand, whether or not they are considered “school” books.

(although I did get some for Emam recently, big 300+ page ones for THREE bucks apiece. :O)

]]> By: Frankie Straight http://mtpleasant.homeschooljournal.net/2006/04/28/45/#comment-52 Frankie Straight Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:57:48 +0000 http://mtpleasant.homeschooljournal.net/2006/04/28/45/#comment-52 I give up on trying to homeschool in a frugal manner. I'm now trying to implement a $100 a month budget! We'll see how that goes. Thursday we went to the zoo. It cost $56 to fill our car with gas, drive 120 miles to the zoo. We bought our entrance fees, had a snack, then spent $10 at the petting zoo. Then we went out to a yummy dinner at the Olive Garden. Total cost for the day: $156. That was a school day, but I'm not counting it in my budget. lol I give up on trying to homeschool in a frugal manner. I’m now trying to implement a $100 a month budget! We’ll see how that goes.

Thursday we went to the zoo. It cost $56 to fill our car with gas, drive 120 miles to the zoo. We bought our entrance fees, had a snack, then spent $10 at the petting zoo. Then we went out to a yummy dinner at the Olive Garden.

Total cost for the day: $156. That was a school day, but I’m not counting it in my budget. lol

]]> By: mtpleasant http://mtpleasant.homeschooljournal.net/2006/04/28/45/#comment-50 mtpleasant Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:45:13 +0000 http://mtpleasant.homeschooljournal.net/2006/04/28/45/#comment-50 You're probably right in that things that I include in my figure others do not. I love homesciencetools.com and order from them quite often. LOL!! Right now I must have a couple hundred dollars of science stuff that I want to buy from them. We'll be doing Biology next year and so I'm oscillating on whether or not to buy dissecting kits and other lab kits. HS'ing cost much less when the kids were little. You’re probably right in that things that I include in my figure others do not.

I love homesciencetools.com and order from them quite often. LOL!! Right now I must have a couple hundred dollars of science stuff that I want to buy from them. We’ll be doing Biology next year and so I’m oscillating on whether or not to buy dissecting kits and other lab kits. HS’ing cost much less when the kids were little.

]]> By: Myrtle http://mtpleasant.homeschooljournal.net/2006/04/28/45/#comment-43 Myrtle Sat, 29 Apr 2006 04:14:06 +0000 http://mtpleasant.homeschooljournal.net/2006/04/28/45/#comment-43 I've never considered field trips part of the homeschool budget. I guess when people say they do it for a few hundred dollars they really aren't accounting for everything. Also I don't count ballet and other extracurriculars as part of homeschooling. The kids would be doing that anyway if they were in public school. And the other thing that I do which is sort of cheating is take $15 from "groceries" and run down to my local homeschool supply store and pick up a new workbook every now and then. I have yet to buy anything for science but I have a catalogue from www.homesciencetools. that sells supplies cheaper than I've seen it anywhere else. I’ve never considered field trips part of the homeschool budget. I guess when people say they do it for a few hundred dollars they really aren’t accounting for everything. Also I don’t count ballet and other extracurriculars as part of homeschooling. The kids would be doing that anyway if they were in public school. And the other thing that I do which is sort of cheating is take $15 from “groceries” and run down to my local homeschool supply store and pick up a new workbook every now and then.

I have yet to buy anything for science but I have a catalogue from www.homesciencetools. that sells supplies cheaper than I’ve seen it anywhere else.

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