Homeschooling your child on a budget is not an easy task! It requires more efforts; in fact, most of the parents often fail profoundly in a high rate in their initial stages. In fact, as a parent, I have failed at the start especially while we have traveled to tours like Punta Mita in Mexico, but later on, we have started choosing Punta Mita Properties to save lots of money on trips.
If you’re facing the same kind of problems and wondering how to homeschool your child with your budget, then don’t worry I am going to cover all the money saving options in this post.
Homeschooling is always an excellent way to give your child an exciting and interesting education. However, at the same time, it can be expensive particularly if your not careful about the cost of trips, tours, books, and more. You might even have other factors influencing these factors to raise the price of homeschooling.
If your wondering how to homeschool your children on a budget, then you can have a look at this post. I am going to cover some useful tips to save money on homeschooling.
Best Tips to save money on homeschooling:
These homeschooling tips have worked for us to save money while homeschooling. You can do that as well by using the same tips.
Buy Used Books:
Books are vital to gain knowledge, but you don’t need to buy new books every time. Every calendar year you need to purchase new books. At that point of time, it’s always best to buy used books to spend less on expenses. Also, make sure you do proper research on the books you buy. Every calendar year you might find subjects with advanced chapters in that case you should buy new books for those updated books, for the rest you should purchase normal books. You can find a great collection of used books online, or you can get them in used bookstores as well.
Save Money on Clothes & Accessories:
Most of the parents do spend a lot on clothing and accessories for their children each calendar year. However, you really do not have to buy that many clothes and accessories for a child every year. Although children always love to wear new clothes and, the styles and designs that, their friends at school wear but for homeschooled kids, you don’t need that.
In a recent survey of Parenting Magazine, the statistics prove that average spends $131 per child on back-to-school clothes each year. That’s a lot for a regular paycheck family so you can save this amount for homeschooled kids. Mostly because they will spend less time on their school, and they even go to school in regular clothes so you can save money on both school uniforms and shoes as well.
Save Money on Medical Expenses:
Usually, every parent wants their children to be safe from virus, bacteria, and flu in particular seasons. But their kids might bring these to the home from school and spread it to the others. In homeschooling, you don’t have to worry about the bacteria and viruses as they are protected and mostly stay away from viruses and bacteria at home. So, you can save money on medical expenses as well while you keep your child in your home.
Sell what you no longer needed:
It’s always best to sell the items which we no longer require. In general, you might find several things which you really don’t want or no longer needed or in case, no longer useful to you, such as old books, unused accessories and so. By selling all these items, you can simply get some money back that you have spent on those things. Its always useful for anyone.
Just make sure you sell all your old books and accessories that are no longer required. You can find lots of places around you to sell these items. Therefore, you can simply earn a good amount on selling used supplies, and the money you get from the sale will be helpful for other activities.
Never waste money “Don’t Fix What Isn’t Broke”:
Usually, you all might spend hundreds of dollars every year just because of the teacher’s manual, which isn’t required to buy multiple times. Just stick with the same math curriculum in all of your years when homeschooling. This process will help you save hundreds of dollars; we are saying that because we have saved money by following this process.
Food Expenses:
Usually, we always eat lunch almost every day, and when at home, we can eat proper food without consuming fast foods or other junk dishes. But, if your at school this means you will always have snack foods, fast foods and so on. The amount of money your spending might look small at the time your spending the money but if you calculate that for a month you will say Oh what am I doing!
If you don’t believe this, then check out this survey on NBC News, where they have stated that the average cost for school lunch is around $3.10 per child for a single day. Along with that, you might even have a snack and the prices for that will be an additional $3. That means you might pay $60 per week on school lunches & snacks. When your homeschooling this means, you will save this amount, and that can be used for other useful expenses.
Vacations:
Homeschooling can always help you save money on Family Vacations. When you’re at school, your child might always ask for a bit of relax. When they ask obviously, you might plan a tour or vacation for them on their vacation. Usually, there will be a rise in expenses on holidays in tourist places. So, you are almost doubling your costs but if your homeschooling your kids might rarely ask to take a family vacation. At that time you can easily save on your trip by booking, your journey during non-rush hours and also take a chance to grab the best deal. You can even turn the family trips into valuable learning curves for your kids.
Cut down your school Expenditure:
Every year schools will charge thousands of dollars for education, and apart from that, you might even spend a lot for its accessories as well. You can cut down the cost of your school expenditure by exploring the Internet. On the internet, you can readily find most of the education sites that help you complete your course by online videos, guides and so on. With homeschooling, you can make use of these and save money on School Expenditure.
These are the few ways where you can save money on homeschooling. I hope these tips are helpful for you. If you feel you have more suggestions, then you can let us know in the comments section.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
