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Coal Cookies!  What could be better to slip into a stocking for Christmas or to give as a treat to friends. 

Retailers know that parents are willing to spend big bucks on their kids to get them ready for a new school year because it is the one time that the parents feel they have some control of how their children might do in school. (If your child is struggling with math then buying them an expensive calculator makes you feel at least your are doing something to make the situation better). But getting your kids ready to go back to school does not means that you have to open your wallet and get them everything shiny, new and expensive.          Photo Petr Kratochvil

Check out these lists and ideas of how to keep your child well equipped and ready for the school year while keeping the costs firmly in check.

When my children were little I would always be sending them outside in the spring time with bubble liquid and bubble makers. It would keep them busy for a little while but I knew if I didn't keep my eye on them then they would take the bubble liquid and start making experiments in the sand box.

Years latter I bought the  Bubble Book and Bubble Thing which is a giant bubble maker that I still bring out when ever we have a house full of teenagers in the summer. (Teenagers, like small children, need something to keep themselves occupied or else they will get into trouble).

Everyone wants to take their children's portraits to either commemorate an event (like their birthday), or an occasion (like their graduation from the 3rd grade) or so they can send a photo with the yearly Christmas cards to show everyone near and far how much the children have grown. 

In the 1950's lunch would often happen at home with mother dishing out a sandwich and soup for her brood while sometimes father got to come home and join them.