As many pupils return to school this week, parents are under pressure to buy their children new uniforms or extra clothes, such as trainers or sports kit.

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After paying bills and buying food I find it difficult to even buy toiletries let alone any new clothes and that's before this is introduced.

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By the time I graduated from college and landed my first real job, I knew exactly what I was going to do with the money: buy brand new clothes.

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They buy new clothes, and they build houses, and they eat sweetly and well, and they go to theatres.

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