August 16, 2025 • 20 mins
Back-to-school clothes shopping can be the most expensive part of preparing for the new school year, but with proper planning and practical strategies, parents can stay on budget while ensuring their children have what they need.
• Prevent overspending by setting a firm budget before shopping
• Use cash instead of cards to help maintain spending discipline
• Sort through last year's clothes to determine what's still usable
• Create a capsule wardrobe with interchangeable pieces
• Check for hand-me-downs from siblings or friends
• Look for uniform exchanges on social media or at thrift stores
• Choose proper closed-toe shoes for school activities
• Remember that "less is more" - fewer clothes means less laundry
• Consider shopping during tax-free periods when available
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the
gag is pod.
I am your girl, charlie Fonte.
Thank you for joining me onanother episode and, like I
always say, if it's a newepisode then it must be Friday.
So thank you for tuning in, orwhatever day you're listening to
this, it doesn't matter.
Thank you for being here.
Before we get started, pleasemake sure you are following us
(00:22):
on IG at the gag is pod or onYouTube at the gag is pod as
well.
Before we get started, go aheadand grab your drink, whatever
it is that you get when youlisten to this hopefully, listen
to this in a car on the way towork.
Turn it up, drink your coffee,whatever you do.
(00:42):
So today we're going to becontinuing on with our back to
school series because it's a fewmore weeks before school starts
, so I want to make sure thatyou know each week I'm not
overloading with stuff to do forback to school.
So this week we're going totalk about clothes shopping.
Now, I think this is like thebiggest pet peeve of back to
(01:02):
school shopping, because youknow it's the most expensive, in
my opinion.
You know the clothes, the shoes, the accessories, the
toiletries and different stufflike that.
So this has to be the mostexpensive portion outside of
sports.
This has to be the mostexpensive portion of back to
school and I got my notes overhere because when it comes to
(01:24):
back to school clothes shoppinglike there's a lot to unpack
there and I know for a fact thatI've been trying to get new
face socks for two weeks.
We went to the store thismorning and I still forgot socks
.
We got halfway home I looked athim.
I said you know what I said?
We forgot socks.
And he was like oh yeah, so I'mgonna have to make a trip one
(01:46):
of these days this week to getsocks.
Now this week or this month, Ishould say um, instead of doing
a tax-free weekend, florida hasopted to do a tax-free month.
So that means clothing, shoesand anything under $100 is
(02:06):
tax-free.
Some laptops and some otherback-to-school items are
included as well.
So you just have to check outthe Florida website just to see
what is included on that.
So my first tip for you guys isgoing to be prevent over
shopping, which prevents overspending, and it keeps you on
(02:29):
budget.
I feel like when you go intoclothes shopping with a budget,
it makes it much easier for you,because if you say, oh, I'm
only going to spend $400, youknow my max is going to be $500,
because you do have to havethat cushion.
Because if your child is goingfrom a small size and then you
know they're right on the borderand they're going into that
next size, then you have toallow a little cushion, because
the bigger the clothes, thebigger the shoes, then sometimes
(02:52):
there is a price jump.
So I would say, give yourselfthat cushion, give yourself that
margin, but absolutely stay onbudget.
You can't go in the store andbe like, oh, so you like that.
Oh, you like that, let's goahead and get it.
Because when you go in a storeyou just grab, grab, grab,
messes up your budget and thenyour budget's blown.
(03:13):
One thing that I did not put inhere, but it just came to my
mind as I'm recording this, isin order to stay on budget.
I use cash.
I set aside a weekend that I'mgoing to go and I use cash
because it's easier to stay onbudget with cash than it is with
a card, because with a cardyou're not thinking about it and
you're just swipe, swipe, swipe.
When you have a cash, when youstart buying stuff and you see,
(03:34):
oh OK, my money dwindling down alittle bit.
Then you're like, ok, I have tobe conscious about what I'm
going to continue to buy next,because I don't have that much
money.
I do bring a card with me justin case I need a little overage
or something, but for the mostpart I don't rely on my cards
for shopping, unless you'regoing to use on your credit card
(03:58):
and then you're going to paythat money back.
But that's not what thisepisode is about.
Tip one stay on budget.
Tip two I feel like this is themost important, because I'm
guilty of this too, and I'vedone this in the past few years,
from the time Marco Polo was inschool up until now.
I'll just go out there and shopand then both of them end up
(04:20):
with an excess of clothes.
And then they end up withclothes.
I know it was like two yearsago I didn't go through new
faces, stuff, and he ended upwith about seven brand new
outfits that he had more shirts,pants, and then by the time I
discovered them, they were toosmall and I had to give them
away.
It was stuff that still had thetags on it.
(04:47):
So in order to prevent fromdoing that.
My tip number two is sortthrough last year's clothes to
determine if there are anyclothes that are salvageable.
I always make sure I go throughnew faces clothes, because
where is the rule that says thatkids have to have a brand new
wardrobe when they go back toschool?
Now I get it.
I do get it that you want yourkids to have the latest and the
(05:08):
greatest, but also the latestand greatest cost money as well.
What you can do is see whatyour child has, and so now that
New Face is in high school, whatI've done is I'm starting to
create him like a quote unquotecapsule wardrobe.
So he's going to get a certainnumber of shirts, a certain
number of pants, and then he'san athlete.
I know what my child wears, Iknow what he doesn't wear, so I
(05:31):
know I'm not going to.
You know I'm going to look atwhat he has See.
If there's anything salvageable, then we'll take it from there.
So if he gets rid of fourshirts, then I know that I need
to buy four shirts.
If he gets rid of five pair ofpants, I know he needs five pair
of pants.
He's been leading a lot ofpants because he's just been
(05:51):
growing, growing, growing.
He's at that six foot mark now.
So you know he got to get newpants.
But if I say he need 10 pantsand 10 shirts, then okay, that's
cool.
If you got rid of four shirtsand five pants, I know I got to
go get you four shirts and fivepants and you're going to be
made whole.
I know he don't like shorts soI would not go buy him shorts.
(06:15):
I know he likes sweatpants.
I'll buy him sweatpants.
I'll buy some jeans.
He's in this baggy phase thatall the kids went through, have
gone through, including myself,that they like the baggy pants
and stuff like that.
So that's kind of where we are.
But go through their stufffirst and this will prevent you
from over shopping.
(06:36):
I can't stress this enoughbecause I mean, if they have,
it's okay to get them some newclothes, like I said, but no
need to over shop.
And because they're going totear it up, it's going to get a
stain on it, it's going to getwhatever.
And the way that I do it duringthe school year is if something
becomes too little or getsribbed or gets a stain on it,
(06:58):
then I replace as needed.
I just don't start the wholeentire school year off with a
fresh wardrobe.
It's not necessary.
Just don't start the wholeentire school year off with a
fresh wardrobe, it's notnecessary.
He don't need five new outfitsfor the whole first week of
school.
My child he gonna wear the samefive, six shirts anyway.
So I ain't finna go out hereand spend a whole bunch of money
.
He's going to wear the samestuff over and over.
So I make sure that his shirtscan coincide with his pants and
(07:21):
he can make different outfits.
Like that he not finna, get ashirt that only go with this
pair of pants, or this pair ofpants that only go with this
shirt, because then if somethinghappened to one or the other,
then he can't wear that outfitno more because he ain't got
nothing to coordinate it with.
So, number two sort throughlast year's stuff to see what is
salvageable before you go outthere and you ball out and you
(07:44):
get most of.
Number three this one is themost important and I feel like
some people frown down on thisand they frown upon it, but I
feel like this is the best pieceof advice for cost saving and I
might actually add a littleanother piece to it.
If your child has an oldersibling of the same gender, see
(08:07):
if there are any clothes thatdoesn't fit them anymore and
that they can pass down tosiblings.
This has been so helpful to mebecause Marco Polo is six, five
new faces, six foot.
So there are some pants that insome shirts that Marco Polo
doesn't want that he gives toNew Face, and when he does that,
that adds into what he alreadyhas, which means I don't have to
(08:31):
buy that much more stuff.
Especially when it comes topants and sweats and different
stuff like that.
I don't have to do that becausehe already got it.
So it saves me.
And I will also say on this ifyou have friends that have kids
that are a little bit older thanyou and they outgrow their
stuff, see if you can get someof their stuff as well.
(08:51):
I mean, there's no law that saythat you can't wear old clothes
because when you think about it, some of the old clothes are
starting to come back into style.
There's nothing that says thatyou can't wear older clothes or
whatever, and how the kids goingto know that them kids ain't
that you didn't buy thoseclothes brand new.
(09:11):
You know what I'm saying.
So it's kind of like utilizeyour resources, cause I know
when new face was a baby like I,used to get clothes from other
people, like baby clothes andstuff, and ain't nothing wrong
with them clothes, becausethey're going to grow out of it
and New Face is still growing.
So there you go, if I haveclothes that are too small for
New Face.
(09:31):
I have people that I know thatif Lorenzo has a pair of jeans
that's in good condition, I'llbe like hey, I got these size
pair of pants, can your childwear these?
Or would you like these?
Because I can put them in a bag, I can bring them to you, I can
meet you I know I post on theHOA thing.
Be like if there's anybody inthe neighborhood that's wearing
this size, I have a couple pairof pants, would you be
(09:56):
interested in them?
And stuff like that.
There's nothing wrong with that, especially in today's economy,
because everybody can't affordall the clothes.
So I would say utilize what youhave, either from an older
sibling or if you have a cousin,a neighbor, a good friend or
somebody that has clothes thatmaybe you can fit your child in.
The clothes are in goodcondition, go for it.
(10:17):
Who going to know?
Ain't nobody gonna know.
Your child is at school, yourchild is close.
So who, who, who gonna know?
Less is more.
Let me say this again Less ismore Because, just like how we
(10:38):
go out and we buy all theseclothes, laundry got to get done
and don't nobody want to bedoing laundry all weekend
because we have all theseclothes.
Okay, we're not going to dothat.
Less is more.
So this portion is pretty muchtailored to kids.
So this portion is for mypeople who kids is in private
(10:59):
school or they are in charterschool.
I've I've been in thissituation so I can kind of speak
for both sides.
When your kids are non-uniformwearing, my suggestion is create
a capsule type wardrobe, createinterchangeable outfits and,
like I said I previouslymentioned, prevents clothes from
(11:21):
not being worn often and in anevent that something gets messed
up, you can.
I was ahead of myself.
You can still wear the matchingpieces If you got to stick with
the basic colors white, black,brown, blue, red, whatever and
just different washes of jeansto make it interchangeable.
I mean, do that you at schoolto learn.
(11:44):
This ain't no fashion.
Show you there to learn, getyour little jacket to go with it
or something, because kids lovesweatshirts in the summertime.
Get them a sweatshirt different, something like that, just
something to help them to gowith their stuff.
For my people that haveuniforms, don't break the bank
(12:10):
on this.
I know that when you go to openhouse they'd be like, well, you
can order the uniforms here andyou know it'll be easy.
It'll just come to the schoolor you can have it come to your
house or whatever.
Before you do this, there arealways groups on social media
that pertain to that school thata parent has started and they
(12:33):
may be offering up uniformsbecause their child was in, went
to that school last year andthey have outgrown that instead
of paying $20 for this shirtwith the logo on it, they may
just be trying to get rid of itand maybe charging $7 for it.
Check these groups firstinstead of just going buying new
shirts and then just kind ofpass down, like I said, if the
(12:54):
clothes are cleaned or not torn,they don't have stains on them
and you know once you get themyou can wash them again.
This kind of saves money, youknow, because then I know when
New Face went to charter school,he we ran into the issue that
they didn't have enough shirtsbecause they buy a certain
number of shirts and put thelogos on and send them out like
(13:15):
that.
He actually had to wait and sofor a couple of weeks he had to
go to school with non-logobranded shirts.
To prevent this, check yourlocal groups.
I know some people are like I'mnot doing that.
Sometimes you got to put yourpride aside to save a couple of
dollars.
I put my pride aside to save mea couple of dollars.
No shame in my game, none atall.
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You can also shop thrift stores.
Thrift stores that are local toyour area.
Like every little school areahas a thrift shop and they're
going to have these back toschool shirts, these uniform
shirts, shorts, skorts for thegirls and different like that.
Check there too, because theydo have the logo ones.
I've gone, I've seen that theyhave the logo ones for the
different charter schools thatare in the area that I live in.
(14:00):
So check there too, becausethose shirts be like five $6.
Like I said, you bring themhome, you wash them up.
They're going to be good as newbecause if they elementary,
(14:21):
they're going to be good as new,because if they're elementary
they're kids.
How to tie their shoes, becauseyou cannot send your child to
school with Crocs on.
They need real closed-toedshoes.
(14:44):
Crocs ain't it, and that's fine, you be like.
Well, I can get my kids theshoes that just slip on, that's
fine.
But you still need to teachyour kids how to tie their shoes
, because all shoes ain't slipon.
Don't let your child be nine,ten years old, can't tie their
shoes.
No, they can't.
They can't be grown.
And just, I can't get theseshoes because I have to tie them
(15:05):
.
I don't know how to tie myshoes.
No, you better show them thebunny loop loop method or
whatever it's called.
Bunny foo foo, I don't knowwhat it's called.
But teach your kids how to tietheir shoes.
Kids must go to school withclosed toe shoes.
Crocs are not considered closedtoed shoes.
Okay, they're closed toed onthe front, but not in the back.
(15:26):
When was a teacher?
I cannot tell you how manytimes kids wore um crocs to
school.
Not only should they not wearcrocs to school, because when it
come to pe, you can'tparticipate in pwe with crocs
because it doesn't have anklesupport and it doesn't have
support on the back.
And now your child losing outon grade because they can't
participate in pe, because theyain't got no closed toe shoes on
.
(15:47):
Parents, do not send your childto school with Crocs on.
Okay, don't say, well, I cansend my kid to school with Crocs
on and then they can change forPE.
Why are we doing all this?
Just send them out the housewith the correct pair of shoes
the first time and just let itgo.
I don't care if little Johnnydon't want to wear no tennis
shoes.
Little Johnny need to wear sometennis shoes because in an
event they got to run orsomething like that.
Like that, little johnny ain'tgonna be at the ortho doctor
(16:11):
because he got a broke ankle,because he ain't had no support,
because he was wearing crocsand had him in sport mode.
Okay, um, tennis shoes and, likeI said, any hard bottom shoes
because they're going to providethe best protection for the
foot posture.
Um, and like I said, they can'tparticipate in pe with crocs on
.
They can't participate in pewith flip-flops on them.
Them little cutesy sandals andstuff like that, them little
jelly sandals.
(16:31):
Tennis shoes they ain't got tobe the nicest tennis shoes Go to
Walmart, they have tennis shoes.
Support is support.
Okay, you got to stop thisstereotype that all of our kids'
clothes got to come from themall, okay, they ain't got to
come from the mall, okay.
And last but not least I'vesaid it before a limited
(16:56):
wardrobe reduces laundry.
You do not want to spend allweekend doing laundry.
You can you have seven outfitsthat way.
If you don't do laundry overthe weekend, they still got two
more till you can get to it,okay, this reduces the laundry.
And, um, since we're doing this, let me go ahead and follow.
(17:19):
Give me all the.
You can't make this up.
Um, new face had his five teethpulled a couple of days ago.
Uh, he's doing well, but let metell you, buddy ain't do good.
He did good until we got home.
And then he got home and hestarted crying and he trying to
take gauze out his mouth and hewould bleed.
Now, it was a mess.
(17:40):
It was a mess but nonethelessit was funny.
I may throw a couple clips onthere on.
If you go to YouTube and watchthis, then I'll insert a couple
of clips in there.
Um of him after the dentist and, uh, you can kind of see how
that went.
Last, but certainly not least,um, my song lyric of the week.
(18:02):
You know I'm being a littlesilly with it, since we're
talking about clothes and we'retalking about back to school
shopping and wardrobe.
I picked this song as a joke,okay, and I felt like it's kind
of funny because when kids getout of school, the first thing
that they do is they come home,they change their clothes and
they throw their clothes on thefloor, right.
(18:24):
So I pick nearly hot in herebecause the lyrics say it's
getting hot in here, so take offall your clothes.
That's fine.
You take your clothes off andput your clothes in the dirt
clothes.
See, that's my little jokeyjoke.
It's getting hot here.
Put them clothes in the laundry.
Don't just take clothes off andput them everywhere.
Take clothes off and put themin the laundry.
I don't want to see clothes allover the floor.
(18:45):
Okay, pick the clothes up.
If you got to take clothes off,put and you change your clothes
, put them in the laundry, don'tput them on the floor.
So my song lyric of the week isnelly hot in here.
I hope y'all understood the joke.
If you don't, I don't know whatto tell you.
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(19:07):
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Bye, guys.
Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the
gag is pod.
I am your girl, charlie Fonte.
Thank you for joining me onanother episode and, like I
always say, if it's a newepisode then it must be Friday.
So thank you for tuning in, orwhatever day you're listening to
this, it doesn't matter.
Thank you for being here.
Before we get started, pleasemake sure you are following us
(00:22):
on IG at the gag is pod or onYouTube at the gag is pod as
well.
Before we get started, go aheadand grab your drink, whatever
it is that you get when youlisten to this hopefully, listen
to this in a car on the way towork.
Turn it up, drink your coffee,whatever you do.
(00:42):
So today we're going to becontinuing on with our back to
school series because it's a fewmore weeks before school starts
, so I want to make sure thatyou know each week I'm not
overloading with stuff to do forback to school.
So this week we're going totalk about clothes shopping.
Now, I think this is like thebiggest pet peeve of back to
(01:02):
school shopping, because youknow it's the most expensive, in
my opinion.
You know the clothes, the shoes, the accessories, the
toiletries and different stufflike that.
So this has to be the mostexpensive portion outside of
sports.
This has to be the mostexpensive portion of back to
school and I got my notes overhere because when it comes to
(01:24):
back to school clothes shoppinglike there's a lot to unpack
there and I know for a fact thatI've been trying to get new
face socks for two weeks.
We went to the store thismorning and I still forgot socks
.
We got halfway home I looked athim.
I said you know what I said?
We forgot socks.
And he was like oh yeah, so I'mgonna have to make a trip one
(01:46):
of these days this week to getsocks.
Now this week or this month, Ishould say um, instead of doing
a tax-free weekend, florida hasopted to do a tax-free month.
So that means clothing, shoesand anything under $100 is
(02:06):
tax-free.
Some laptops and some otherback-to-school items are
included as well.
So you just have to check outthe Florida website just to see
what is included on that.
So my first tip for you guys isgoing to be prevent over
shopping, which prevents overspending, and it keeps you on
(02:29):
budget.
I feel like when you go intoclothes shopping with a budget,
it makes it much easier for you,because if you say, oh, I'm
only going to spend $400, youknow my max is going to be $500,
because you do have to havethat cushion.
Because if your child is goingfrom a small size and then you
know they're right on the borderand they're going into that
next size, then you have toallow a little cushion, because
the bigger the clothes, thebigger the shoes, then sometimes
(02:52):
there is a price jump.
So I would say, give yourselfthat cushion, give yourself that
margin, but absolutely stay onbudget.
You can't go in the store andbe like, oh, so you like that.
Oh, you like that, let's goahead and get it.
Because when you go in a storeyou just grab, grab, grab,
messes up your budget and thenyour budget's blown.
(03:13):
One thing that I did not put inhere, but it just came to my
mind as I'm recording this, isin order to stay on budget.
I use cash.
I set aside a weekend that I'mgoing to go and I use cash
because it's easier to stay onbudget with cash than it is with
a card, because with a cardyou're not thinking about it and
you're just swipe, swipe, swipe.
When you have a cash, when youstart buying stuff and you see,
(03:34):
oh OK, my money dwindling down alittle bit.
Then you're like, ok, I have tobe conscious about what I'm
going to continue to buy next,because I don't have that much
money.
I do bring a card with me justin case I need a little overage
or something, but for the mostpart I don't rely on my cards
for shopping, unless you'regoing to use on your credit card
(03:58):
and then you're going to paythat money back.
But that's not what thisepisode is about.
Tip one stay on budget.
Tip two I feel like this is themost important, because I'm
guilty of this too, and I'vedone this in the past few years,
from the time Marco Polo was inschool up until now.
I'll just go out there and shopand then both of them end up
(04:20):
with an excess of clothes.
And then they end up withclothes.
I know it was like two yearsago I didn't go through new
faces, stuff, and he ended upwith about seven brand new
outfits that he had more shirts,pants, and then by the time I
discovered them, they were toosmall and I had to give them
away.
It was stuff that still had thetags on it.
(04:47):
So in order to prevent fromdoing that.
My tip number two is sortthrough last year's clothes to
determine if there are anyclothes that are salvageable.
I always make sure I go throughnew faces clothes, because
where is the rule that says thatkids have to have a brand new
wardrobe when they go back toschool?
Now I get it.
I do get it that you want yourkids to have the latest and the
(05:08):
greatest, but also the latestand greatest cost money as well.
What you can do is see whatyour child has, and so now that
New Face is in high school, whatI've done is I'm starting to
create him like a quote unquotecapsule wardrobe.
So he's going to get a certainnumber of shirts, a certain
number of pants, and then he'san athlete.
I know what my child wears, Iknow what he doesn't wear, so I
(05:31):
know I'm not going to.
You know I'm going to look atwhat he has See.
If there's anything salvageable, then we'll take it from there.
So if he gets rid of fourshirts, then I know that I need
to buy four shirts.
If he gets rid of five pair ofpants, I know he needs five pair
of pants.
He's been leading a lot ofpants because he's just been
(05:51):
growing, growing, growing.
He's at that six foot mark now.
So you know he got to get newpants.
But if I say he need 10 pantsand 10 shirts, then okay, that's
cool.
If you got rid of four shirtsand five pants, I know I got to
go get you four shirts and fivepants and you're going to be
made whole.
I know he don't like shorts soI would not go buy him shorts.
(06:15):
I know he likes sweatpants.
I'll buy him sweatpants.
I'll buy some jeans.
He's in this baggy phase thatall the kids went through, have
gone through, including myself,that they like the baggy pants
and stuff like that.
So that's kind of where we are.
But go through their stufffirst and this will prevent you
from over shopping.
(06:36):
I can't stress this enoughbecause I mean, if they have,
it's okay to get them some newclothes, like I said, but no
need to over shop.
And because they're going totear it up, it's going to get a
stain on it, it's going to getwhatever.
And the way that I do it duringthe school year is if something
becomes too little or getsribbed or gets a stain on it,
(06:58):
then I replace as needed.
I just don't start the wholeentire school year off with a
fresh wardrobe.
It's not necessary.
Just don't start the wholeentire school year off with a
fresh wardrobe, it's notnecessary.
He don't need five new outfitsfor the whole first week of
school.
My child he gonna wear the samefive, six shirts anyway.
So I ain't finna go out hereand spend a whole bunch of money
.
He's going to wear the samestuff over and over.
So I make sure that his shirtscan coincide with his pants and
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he can make different outfits.
Like that he not finna, get ashirt that only go with this
pair of pants, or this pair ofpants that only go with this
shirt, because then if somethinghappened to one or the other,
then he can't wear that outfitno more because he ain't got
nothing to coordinate it with.
So, number two sort throughlast year's stuff to see what is
salvageable before you go outthere and you ball out and you
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get most of.
Number three this one is themost important and I feel like
some people frown down on thisand they frown upon it, but I
feel like this is the best pieceof advice for cost saving and I
might actually add a littleanother piece to it.
If your child has an oldersibling of the same gender, see
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if there are any clothes thatdoesn't fit them anymore and
that they can pass down tosiblings.
This has been so helpful to mebecause Marco Polo is six, five
new faces, six foot.
So there are some pants that insome shirts that Marco Polo
doesn't want that he gives toNew Face, and when he does that,
that adds into what he alreadyhas, which means I don't have to
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buy that much more stuff.
Especially when it comes topants and sweats and different
stuff like that.
I don't have to do that becausehe already got it.
So it saves me.
And I will also say on this ifyou have friends that have kids
that are a little bit older thanyou and they outgrow their
stuff, see if you can get someof their stuff as well.
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I mean, there's no law that saythat you can't wear old clothes
because when you think about it, some of the old clothes are
starting to come back into style.
There's nothing that says thatyou can't wear older clothes or
whatever, and how the kids goingto know that them kids ain't
that you didn't buy thoseclothes brand new.
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You know what I'm saying.
So it's kind of like utilizeyour resources, cause I know
when new face was a baby like I,used to get clothes from other
people, like baby clothes andstuff, and ain't nothing wrong
with them clothes, becausethey're going to grow out of it
and New Face is still growing.
So there you go, if I haveclothes that are too small for
New Face.
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I have people that I know thatif Lorenzo has a pair of jeans
that's in good condition, I'llbe like hey, I got these size
pair of pants, can your childwear these?
Or would you like these?
Because I can put them in a bag, I can bring them to you, I can
meet you I know I post on theHOA thing.
Be like if there's anybody inthe neighborhood that's wearing
this size, I have a couple pairof pants, would you be
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interested in them?
And stuff like that.
There's nothing wrong with that, especially in today's economy,
because everybody can't affordall the clothes.
So I would say utilize what youhave, either from an older
sibling or if you have a cousin,a neighbor, a good friend or
somebody that has clothes thatmaybe you can fit your child in.
The clothes are in goodcondition, go for it.
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Who going to know?
Ain't nobody gonna know.
Your child is at school, yourchild is close.
So who, who, who gonna know?
Less is more.
Let me say this again Less ismore Because, just like how we
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go out and we buy all theseclothes, laundry got to get done
and don't nobody want to bedoing laundry all weekend
because we have all theseclothes.
Okay, we're not going to dothat.
Less is more.
So this portion is pretty muchtailored to kids.
So this portion is for mypeople who kids is in private
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school or they are in charterschool.
I've I've been in thissituation so I can kind of speak
for both sides.
When your kids are non-uniformwearing, my suggestion is create
a capsule type wardrobe, createinterchangeable outfits and,
like I said I previouslymentioned, prevents clothes from
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not being worn often and in anevent that something gets messed
up, you can.
I was ahead of myself.
You can still wear the matchingpieces If you got to stick with
the basic colors white, black,brown, blue, red, whatever and
just different washes of jeansto make it interchangeable.
I mean, do that you at schoolto learn.
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This ain't no fashion.
Show you there to learn, getyour little jacket to go with it
or something, because kids lovesweatshirts in the summertime.
Get them a sweatshirt different, something like that, just
something to help them to gowith their stuff.
For my people that haveuniforms, don't break the bank
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on this.
I know that when you go to openhouse they'd be like, well, you
can order the uniforms here andyou know it'll be easy.
It'll just come to the schoolor you can have it come to your
house or whatever.
Before you do this, there arealways groups on social media
that pertain to that school thata parent has started and they
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may be offering up uniformsbecause their child was in, went
to that school last year andthey have outgrown that instead
of paying $20 for this shirtwith the logo on it, they may
just be trying to get rid of itand maybe charging $7 for it.
Check these groups firstinstead of just going buying new
shirts and then just kind ofpass down, like I said, if the
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clothes are cleaned or not torn,they don't have stains on them
and you know once you get themyou can wash them again.
This kind of saves money, youknow, because then I know when
New Face went to charter school,he we ran into the issue that
they didn't have enough shirtsbecause they buy a certain
number of shirts and put thelogos on and send them out like
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that.
He actually had to wait and sofor a couple of weeks he had to
go to school with non-logobranded shirts.
To prevent this, check yourlocal groups.
I know some people are like I'mnot doing that.
Sometimes you got to put yourpride aside to save a couple of
dollars.
I put my pride aside to save mea couple of dollars.
No shame in my game, none atall.
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You can also shop thrift stores.
Thrift stores that are local toyour area.
Like every little school areahas a thrift shop and they're
going to have these back toschool shirts, these uniform
shirts, shorts, skorts for thegirls and different like that.
Check there too, because theydo have the logo ones.
I've gone, I've seen that theyhave the logo ones for the
different charter schools thatare in the area that I live in.
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So check there too, becausethose shirts be like five $6.
Like I said, you bring themhome, you wash them up.
They're going to be good as newbecause if they elementary,
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they're going to be good as new,because if they're elementary
they're kids.
How to tie their shoes, becauseyou cannot send your child to
school with Crocs on.
They need real closed-toedshoes.
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Crocs ain't it, and that's fine, you be like.
Well, I can get my kids theshoes that just slip on, that's
fine.
But you still need to teachyour kids how to tie their shoes
, because all shoes ain't slipon.
Don't let your child be nine,ten years old, can't tie their
shoes.
No, they can't.
They can't be grown.
And just, I can't get theseshoes because I have to tie them
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.
I don't know how to tie myshoes.
No, you better show them thebunny loop loop method or
whatever it's called.
Bunny foo foo, I don't knowwhat it's called.
But teach your kids how to tietheir shoes.
Kids must go to school withclosed toe shoes.
Crocs are not considered closedtoed shoes.
Okay, they're closed toed onthe front, but not in the back.
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When was a teacher?
I cannot tell you how manytimes kids wore um crocs to
school.
Not only should they not wearcrocs to school, because when it
come to pe, you can'tparticipate in pwe with crocs
because it doesn't have anklesupport and it doesn't have
support on the back.
And now your child losing outon grade because they can't
participate in pe, because theyain't got no closed toe shoes on
.
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Parents, do not send your childto school with Crocs on.
Okay, don't say, well, I cansend my kid to school with Crocs
on and then they can change forPE.
Why are we doing all this?
Just send them out the housewith the correct pair of shoes
the first time and just let itgo.
I don't care if little Johnnydon't want to wear no tennis
shoes.
Little Johnny need to wear sometennis shoes because in an
event they got to run orsomething like that.
Like that, little johnny ain'tgonna be at the ortho doctor
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because he got a broke ankle,because he ain't had no support,
because he was wearing crocsand had him in sport mode.
Okay, um, tennis shoes and, likeI said, any hard bottom shoes
because they're going to providethe best protection for the
foot posture.
Um, and like I said, they can'tparticipate in pe with crocs on
.
They can't participate in pewith flip-flops on them.
Them little cutesy sandals andstuff like that, them little
jelly sandals.
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Tennis shoes they ain't got tobe the nicest tennis shoes Go to
Walmart, they have tennis shoes.
Support is support.
Okay, you got to stop thisstereotype that all of our kids'
clothes got to come from themall, okay, they ain't got to
come from the mall, okay.
And last but not least I'vesaid it before a limited
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wardrobe reduces laundry.
You do not want to spend allweekend doing laundry.
You can you have seven outfitsthat way.
If you don't do laundry overthe weekend, they still got two
more till you can get to it,okay, this reduces the laundry.
And, um, since we're doing this, let me go ahead and follow.
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Give me all the.
You can't make this up.
Um, new face had his five teethpulled a couple of days ago.
Uh, he's doing well, but let metell you, buddy ain't do good.
He did good until we got home.
And then he got home and hestarted crying and he trying to
take gauze out his mouth and hewould bleed.
Now, it was a mess.
(17:40):
It was a mess but nonethelessit was funny.
I may throw a couple clips onthere on.
If you go to YouTube and watchthis, then I'll insert a couple
of clips in there.
Um of him after the dentist and, uh, you can kind of see how
that went.
Last, but certainly not least,um, my song lyric of the week.
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You know I'm being a littlesilly with it, since we're
talking about clothes and we'retalking about back to school
shopping and wardrobe.
I picked this song as a joke,okay, and I felt like it's kind
of funny because when kids getout of school, the first thing
that they do is they come home,they change their clothes and
they throw their clothes on thefloor, right.
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So I pick nearly hot in herebecause the lyrics say it's
getting hot in here, so take offall your clothes.
That's fine.
You take your clothes off andput your clothes in the dirt
clothes.
See, that's my little jokeyjoke.
It's getting hot here.
Put them clothes in the laundry.
Don't just take clothes off andput them everywhere.
Take clothes off and put themin the laundry.
I don't want to see clothes allover the floor.
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Okay, pick the clothes up.
If you got to take clothes off,put and you change your clothes
, put them in the laundry, don'tput them on the floor.
So my song lyric of the week isnelly hot in here.
I hope y'all understood the joke.
If you don't, I don't know whatto tell you.
But, as always, make sureyou're following us on ig at the
gag is pot.
Make sure you're following uson youtube as well.
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At the gag is pot.
Make sure you're sure you'reliking, you're sharing, you're
subscribing, so that whenanytime a new episode is
released, you're one of thefirst people to know that the
episode is released.
Until next time, I'm your girl,charlie Shante.
This is thegaggispod.
Bye, guys.
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