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Clothing purchases on new items such as jeans, shirts, and shoes, are expected to average $225.47 per child, the single largest back-to-school expense for the year.

The question is: Do our children really need all of this clothing and does it all need to be new, or have we set an expectation that puts unnecessary pressure on our families’ budgets and on the environment?

The temperature is cooling down and the stores are fully stocked with book bags and clothing basics. Must be back to school time again. Here are ten tips to help you find what clothing your kids will need for BTS at a price you can afford.

Last summer LoobaLee launched an online service to help parents buy and sell gently used children’s clothing. And, they’ve been growing like crazy ever since.

They carry upscale, name-brand, and boutique-quality children’s wear and accessories and now have over 1000 brands available through their site.

WGSN, a style and design trend analysis company, says we’ll be seeing classic, retro, and stylish trends in kids denim just in time for the back-to-school season.

Over the next few weeks, we will be writing about some of the cool features and tools you can find on the SizeTracker website in a series of posts called SizeTracker 101. This is the third in the series.

What? SizeTracker can predict the future? Well…yes and no. What SizeTracker can do is analyze your child’s current measurements and give you a reasonable estimate of what clothing size they will need for some future date. It’s not magic, it’s just data and a patent-pending formula for figuring out what comes next. Learn more about this great tool and how you can use it to shop season-end sales, buy special occasion clothing, and, basically, just take the guess-work out of figuring out what clothing size to buy for your child for a future date.