Budget Woes

During my research

I am discovering that this 

homeschooling thing

ain't cheap!!

You can do it cheap

You can do it pretty much as cheap 

as you want to...

HOWEVER

I want/need

some structure

and accountability.

And there is a

TON 

of stuff

out there!!

I have found 

some different vendors

that have different

pieces parts 

or subjects.

Then there are the 

"all in one" 

type curriculums.

Some of these can run you 

$800+ per year

per child!

Um, no thanks!

There are very highly 

recommended programs

and resources 

that seem reasonably priced

until you add

all the pieces of the

"program"

together.

Then you remember,

that it is just for

ONE subject!!

Again

HOWEVER...

I have multiple children

and we are starting rather young with 

my oldest...

SO...

assuming we like doing this

homeschooling thing

we can reuse the same resources

over and over

just having to purchase 

"student manuals"

(or the consumable part of the resource).

So far I am looking at:

Math - Saxon

Reading & Spelling - All About Reading/All About Spelling

Science - The Young Scientists Club

And as I add all this stuff up...

I feel like we will QUICKLY 

approach that $800+

per student 

per year

number.

UGH!

Hopefully,

I can figure out a way to 

do this on the 

relatively 

inexpensive...

BUT

I will NOT

sacrifice 

the kids

education.

So we will see what we wind up with.