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I’m a mum of 12 and I’ve already found back to school bargains in B&M for 98p, you need them before they sell out
Plus check out how to get bigger bargains from B&M
CHILDREN across some parts of the UK are yet to break up for the summer holidays.
But one savvy mum from Scotland has already revealed the B&M bargains you need to pick
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Zoe Sullivan, 45, husband Ben, 49, and their 12 children make up one of the country's biggest families.
The couple are parents to Elisabeth, 19, Olivia, 17, Noah, 14, Evangeline, 12, Tobias, 11, Agnes, seven, Joseph, five, Florence, two, and two sets of twins - Charlotte and Isabelle, 16, and Leah and Erin, eight.
The bumper brood live in a six-bedroom house in Burghead, Moray, where they regularly document their hectic lives on their YouTube channel.
And they've already been enjoying extra family time since kicking off their summer holidays last week.
Zoe admits they spent the first week "chilling" due to the bad weather.
She added: "I always find that it takes at least a week for everyone to chill out and calm down from the hecticness of everyday life at the beginning of the holidays, and I think we are at the chilled point now thankfully!"
But with so many children to get kitted out for the next term at school, there's only so much chilling that supermum Zoe can do.
Indeed, she is already thinking about the essentials her brood will need for returning to the classroom after summer.
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She said: "So I know a lot of you haven’t even finished school yet but I popped into B&M the other night just to get some other things and they have got so much back to school [things].
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"They had so much stuff in there. They’ve obviously just got it all in.
"I don’t know if it’s in all of them. Obviously we’re in Scotland, our schools have already broken up so people are already thinking about getting back to school stuff."
Zoe showed off the "complete bargains" she spotted in a short video.
First up was a 98p water bottle which she insisted was great when her kids drop and break them so often that she has to buy in replacements.
She also found lunch boxes for £1 and a three-pack of snack boxes with multiple compartments for £2.97.
There were also colour-changing cups, and glitter water bottles up for grabs which Zoe said were cheaper than usual.
Get more bargains with the B&M scanner
The barcode scanner in the app lets you see if the item's price is cheaper than advertised on the shop shelf.
The B&M scanner is located on the B&M Stores mobile app, which can be downloaded for free on your smartphone.
Shoppers can download it on the App Store or Google Play.
Once you've got the app, click on the "scan" button at the bottom of your homepage.
This will then bring up the camera on your smartphone, which you'll need to use to scan barcodes.
When you've found a product you want to scan, simply point your smartphone camera toward its barcode.
The app will then automatically bring up the item's price - this is when you'll know if it is reduced or not.
Bargain hunters say some items come up as £1, 50p or even 10p through the app.
But of course, not all items will scan at a lower price - so don't be disappointed if the thing you're after isn't reduced.
Quite often, you'll need to have plenty of time on your hands to go around and scan a lot of items in store.
While the reductions can seem random, it's usually items that are seasonal or old stock.
Another thing to note is that the reductions do sometimes vary between stores.
This means that just because something is reduced in one B&M, prices vary from store to store depending on stock levels.
But if you do get lucky and find a bargain, the product should scan at that price at the till.
And other parents are loving her bargain finds.
"That is great value for money. I will definitely go there and put away for September", said one mum.
A second wrote: "Great idea, get now before they sell out."
A third echoed: "I don’t blame you, if you don’t get it when you see it, next time it’s gone very annoying."
Someone else added: "Mine don't break up until 19th July but started the uniform shopping May to spread the cost. Just got the shoes to get now."
Meanwhile, a fifth chimed in: "Wow that looks amazing hopefully our B&M here will start having their selection soon."
We told earlier how Zoe only gets four hours of sleep each night - but would still never say never to baby number 13.
The supermum gets up every morning at 4.45am after only settling down the night before at around midnight.
She said: "I can't bear being late to anything, and I can't bear being rushed.
"So if I get up early, I can have a shower, think about what I'm going to do for the day, and get ready.
"I like to get some of the chores in as well before the kids go to school, so I might do two loads of washing and those sorts of things. It does let me get more done.
"I don't get to bed until around midnight, so I probably average four or five hours' sleep - on a good night."
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But she still "would never say no" to having another baby, and added: "I think the more we had, the more we realised how much we love having a big family.
"And to be honest, the more you have, the easier it gets, in a weird sort of way."