Your Finance: Back-to-school saving
Photo credit: iStock | The average cost on back-to-school spending for kindergarten through 12th grade is $688, according to the National Retail Federation, up from $603.63 last year. Getting ready for college? The average is now $907.
If you're paying more than 25 cents for a box for crayons, you've spent too much, according to frugalistas like Crystal Paine, known as Money Saving Mom on the Web.
Paine, part of the coupon-mom brigade that came to prominence during the recession, spends her days aggregating bargains so that her thousands of devotees don't have to do the legwork.
Whether shopping for a second-grader...
