‘Back to school is almost as stressful as Christmas’ [Independent.ie]
- Published: 09 August 2011
For Marie Bray, mother of three schoolgoing children, the back-to-school period is as stressful, if not more so, than Christmas.
"At least at Christmas you can trim costs, but you can't with schoolbooks," she said.
"They aren't luxuries and finding that extra cash is really tricky these days."
At the moment, three of her four children are in primary school. The most expensive book bill this year has been for Luke, who has just turned 12 and is starting sixth class.
Between books, work-sheets and arts and crafts material, the cost is €140.
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