Originally Posted by NashvilleDiva_83

For a 16 YO who doesn't work and eats $300 worth of food a week, it is. Plus, they only wear that and have to wear white polos to school for the uniform (need 5 of those) plus the jeans and the khakis and the hats...

Kid is lucky to have a stepmom like me who will fork it out. It comes usually out of "my" fun money (we have joint money, and I have money on the side that I earn doing independent consulting on the side that I can use to spend) ... My husband is like...well, you can get 5 white polos at Wal-Mart for $5 each, that's $25 and you can get five pairs of khakis for $9 each, that's $45, so your school wardrobe budget is $100.