I’m a single parent with no financial help from elsewhere, but I earn a good salary (about £45k) so we’re comfortable. We have holidays etc. I have 2 DSs age 11 and 14, both into football so lots of money spent on kit, season tickets and so on. I don’t drink or smoke or eat out.
DS is turning 15 soon and said he’d like some clothes for his birthday. All fine till I saw the prices - £135 for a pair of trainers, £70 for a hoodie! He wears school uniform all week and football kit for most of the weekend, so would rarely wear these clothes. But he tells me this is what all his friends have. And they’re all normal families, none are particularly rich.
Am I out of touch? Is this normal? I can’t bring myself to pay money like that!!
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Clothes for teens - how much?
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Mintychoc1 · 09/08/2020 23:54
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