We all know kids are expensive, but most parents will tell you its when they start school that the pounds really start to pile up.
Not only do you have to fork out for a whole new uniform every year, but it can seem like every other week they're falling over, getting holes in their tights or their trousers and scuffing the living daylights out of their shoes.
Keeping on top of it can feel like an impossible task, especially if money is tight, but luckily one mum has come up with an inexpensive hack to keep school shoes from getting ruined every week - at least in the short term.
Like many other, mum Kelly was absolutely fed up of her daughter's school shoes getting trashed two weeks into the new term, so she decided to have ago at a hack she spotted online.
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"Sick of my daughter trashing her school shoes only two weeks after getting them," she wrote in a clip, posted from her handle @kelly_louise_d.
"Saw a hack, boom, sorted them for now."
In the clip, Kelly uses black gaffer tape to cover the fronts of the shoes, where the top layer of material has scuffed away just weeks after being bought new.
And the tape can be purchased from various retailers online with prices starting from around £2.
Granted, they don't exactly look brand new, but from face height, you'd never be able to tell the difference, and it means the youngster can play to her heart's content without her toes starting to poke through.
With kids having been back at school for around three weeks since their Christmas break, there's a good chance their uniforms might need a bit of a spruce up to keep them going until spring, and this could be the perfect inexpensive solution.
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