New things for school

[AnyDream]

We recycle selectively. Things that I do tend to replace are the high use, high wear and tear items: drink bottles (often), school shoes, and definitely the school bag if its looking worse for wear (because it's harder to get decent ones at other times of the year). But I have been known to clean, re sharpen & relabel pencils, etc.

Sometimes it depends on what the school is doing. For eg, in DD's reception class, all the pencils & textas went into shared tins in the classroom, so in that case I send new items from the book list. But in other years, especially in the higher grades, it's obvious what things have been used heavily & need replacing and which ones you can re-use without too much kid angst.

Our uniforms are really expensive so they are replaced only when necessary - although I'm always in the lookout for good condition second-handers in the next size.