There are so many wonderful resources available for homeschoolers. I don't know any family who can afford all of them.

We all have a budget. So let's talk about how to do a Charlotte Mason education on a budget.

Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast.

I'm Sonia Schaefer.

Joining me today is my friend and co-worker, Karen Smith.

We're going to talk about budgets.

I had a budget with my kids when I was homeschooling.

I am assuming you did too.

Well, yes, money only goes so far when you're providing for your family. Yes.

And so there's always choices that need to be made, what you're going to spend your money on.

Let's talk about some ways that we can help stretch that budget, if you will, ways that we can

think about and consider what those priorities are going to be, how to make those decisions.

Where shall we start?

Let's start with what you already have at home.

That's a good place to start. Do you already have a book of

poetry by the poet that you're going to study this year? Then you may not need to buy another one.

Or even if you have an anthology of poetry, does it have several poems by that one poet that you could call?

Yes, that's a good idea. Same with a hymn book. Do you already have a hymn book at home?

Or one that you can borrow maybe from your church. Maybe your church has extras that you could

borrow and take home to use. That's a way to do that

for doing him study.

Yes.

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