Setting a budget for homeschooling requires you to think of all the ways in which you incur costs. Very often the budget goes haywire for the simple reason that you have not factored in all the costs that you undertake when you homeschool your children. Here we split up the costs of homeschooling into obvious (and not so obvious) expenses that you need to consider.
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Curriculum Resources
Books that you buy for the homeschool classroom, stationary such as notebooks, binders, pencils, crayons, staplers, glue and other supplies come under this heading in the budget. Any new gadgets and devices that are needed for science teaching also come under this heading. These are usually well accounted for and listed as purchases that you need to make in the budget planning stage.
Extra Costs of Home Schooling
These are the hidden expenses that one does not think of when planning a homeschool budget. They could include costs of museum tickets for a field trip, sports classes that the children take, music lessons for an instrument, other outings related to homeschooling that are not listed under purely educational activities and the like. These all are difficult to plan for and list in advance but need to be factored into your budget.
Other Expenses Dealing with the Homeschool Classroom
You may be borrowing educational books from the library or videos from Netflix to teach your children extra things about a particular topic covered in a study book from the curriculum. You may have magazine subscriptions of a similar nature, not to mention the utility bill that you must pay for electricity and water. You’ll be using more of both if there are more people home on most days.
Not So Obvious Expenses
While your children may not need uniforms, you will still need to budget in some money for their clothes and shoes for day wear. There may be special outfits for sports and music classes and other items that may not be listed in your initial budget. There will also be groceries that you buy for school time snacks, not to mention the gas expense of taking the family car for school activities based excursions.
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