Parents try to trim back-to-school expenses amid tightening budgets
By Amy F. Reiter
Saturday August 9, 2008
Vanda Bidwell
Toni Burkhalter checks the list of supplies her daughter Savannah, 9, needs for the upcoming school year while shopping Thursday at the Target store in Champaign.
The term "economic downturn" may not be in the vocabulary of your average 8-year-old, but many kids are seeing a side-effect of it anyway, as their parents prepare them for the new school year.
Some parents are scoping out garage sales or secondhand stores for back-to-school clothes. Others are nixing new outfits, buying in bulk when a good deal comes along or taking extra time to make sure that glue or pencil is the lowest priced of its kind around.
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