Quick - ten Zoints if you can tell me the band that made that song famous…..

And I’m gonna need them, because I’m FLAT SLAM out of cash. Because, cue the music, duh-duh-duh, back to school shopping has begun. It’s funny - I don’t remember my mother spending so much money and so much time on our return to school prep. We each got an outfit or two, a few notebooks and some pencils. It wasn’t stressful for her, at least not as awful as it’s been for me this week. We went to Sears, the mall, Office Max and Target - we shopped our brains out. And we aren’t even finished, since, due to the overwhelming attitude of one of my kids in the mall yesterday, we ended up leaving early without the purchases that she needed. Yes - we were that family. The one with the teenager who acted like a toddler, complete with ugly words, crossed arms and rolled eyes.

I think I’d much rather look here at Zwaggle for many of those same items, especially those elusive “must have” clothing items. And save a whole bunch of money in the process. Just ask the Frugalista in the Miami Herald or Laura Delluriti on the Daily Buzz, I think they agree.

What is especially timely for me is the brand new seasonal section, which soon switches to “back to school”. Heaven knows it is so much easier to shop sitting on my couch than chasing a tantrumming preschooler or dealing with the attitude that only a teenage girl can provide. I can sit in my jammies with a cup of coffee, keeping one eye on the news and one eye scrolling through the site. I can mix and match to my hearts content, clear out the closet of the stuff they’ve outgrown and post it to the site - all while that cranky teenager talks on the phone with her friends, and that preschooler runs amok in the backyard. Everyone wins!

Besides, I don’t know if my nerves can take another mall outing with my kids.