Monetary wise, you can absolutely homeschool for free or spend very little money. Time wise is where it gets tricky. The open-and-go curriculum are expensive for the ease of convenience. I do spend more time making the unit studies and gathering resources myself, instead of spending the money. But I think it's worth it because than if it doesn't work out for whatever reason, I don't feel as bad about it as if I spent a ton of money on it.

I 100% agree, public school would cost us about $250 and private would be $8000 for my 5yo, we homeschooled for $120 this year. I don't include srt supplies because I would be buying those regardless as we have other children as well. The library is the best resource we have.

Can you do a video on what your free curriculum you are using? Thanks! ❤

I keep falling into the trap of more expensive curriculum being better. For an imaginary reason I can’t explain.

Great video! While I do not homeschool for free, I do try to cut my costs where ever I can! I enjoy literature based history/social studies which requires a ton of books. We live in a small town with an unreliable interstate library system so I purchase most of the books used from Thrift books and if they are not available I will buy new but rarely- that's when I go to the library. I have a 10th grader so I look at any investment I make purchasing his curriculum can trickle down for many things to his two younger sisters. I have found 3 times science curriculums that sell a box of materials for the experiments have been a complete waste of money and they are not cheap. Our chem box was $350 on sale and I would say only about 30% of the labs "work" and both my husband and I have advanced science degrees. For bio dissection we ended up dropping the dissection kit and watching on youtube. We do not live in a state that allows our kids any access to public school clubs/sports which stinks. Would love to see what you are using that is on the cheaper side this year, I am always looking for new options. :)

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People stink. In my opinion the quality of the homeschool is based on the level of commitment by parent/guardian who is the teacher. If they are committed to a solid education for thier kids it doesnt matter if if they spend $0 or thousands of dollars, if they arent committed then it wont be successful and the kids suffer.