School Family

I’m not usually one for giving fashion advice, but i just ran across this site.. and kind of love these shirts for the little ones.  (Love them especially after my kids came home from the mall last night with lots and lots of questions about the lets-just-say interesting photos at Abercrombie & Fitch — ouch).   They’ve got lots of the younger grades covered and a neat, simple feel.  Hope you like.

Kind of reminds me of Hallmark inventing new holidays to sell more cards, but… Staples has decided that yesterday was the “official start of the back-to-school shopping season.”

What I really love is the idea that some carefully-calculated calculus went into the decision on the date.  Kind of cracks me up.  It’s as good a date as any other, but I could have, you could have (and I’m sure Staples did) pick that date without 20 years of shopping trends data and interviews with parents nationwide.

Either way, it leads to a good question:  when does the shopping mind-set start for you? We’re still 7 weeks away for my kids (and still away on vacation — which feels like the end of last school year, not the beginning of new), so I’m not there yet.

Are you?