I love them! It must be the frugal side of me that enjoys a big ol' sack of clothes for my kids. Not much else can bring such joy!
Recently, I went through Mae's drawers and weeded out the things she can't wear anymore. Then I pulled out a pile of hand-me-downs that a neighbor gave me last year for Mae, and pulled out the things that finally fit. After doing this, Mae only needed a couple more things to finish off her wardrobe for the winter.
I have a couple great big storage containers that I use to keep Mae's old clothes in. I pulled one out so I could put in the latest bunch of 'too small' clothes from Mae, and at the same time I pulled out things that finally fit Isabel. In doing this Isabel's winter wardrobe is also complete.
This brings me to Caleb. He has nothing. No fun box of hand-me-downs to go through. Nothing. This makes me kinda sad. It makes me wish I knew someone that had a boy just a tad older than Caleb so they could pass along some hand-me-downs. He should be grateful that he gets new things and hardy a stitch of 'gently used', but being a boy I think the joy of new clothes just dosen't translate the same as it does for girls.
But not being one to be only a taker and not a giver.....I have also been enjoying passing things along myself. Just the other week I was able to give a sack of little girl clothes to a friend. This gives me a spot of joy as I do not have to store clothes I can no longer use and take up valuable storage space, or the time it takes to list things on Craigslist (I'm not even a bit sad over the loss of a few bucks I could have gotten for them either!). You know....the Lord does love a cheerful giver!
If only I could find someone to pass along some things in, say, a womens size 8. But I'll settle for the clearance racks at Target!
Tuesday, October 21
Hand-Me-Downs
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Hand me downs are the best! I too wish that they had grown up hand me downs. Wouldn't that be great! ;)
We love hand me downs here too. Lindsey's first 2 years were pretty much entirely outfitted by my sister-in-law who had her last daughter a few months earlier than Lindsey and so as she grew out of things, we got them! So fun!
Just this week I am going through things to see what fits/what doesn't fit for the kids this winter. It seems that both my kids grew tall this summer, yikes!
They are the best!!! And I agree passing them along makes me happy too!
I think sometimes boys are harder because they are so hard on clothes. I have some things Ihand down, but the ripped out - holey jeans are put to death.
We had a "hand me down" ladies night at church once. Everybody brought thier gently used clothes to the event and we set them up on tables sorted by size. We had such a great time going through the tables and bringing that age old addage to life, one woman's trash is another woman's treasure!
I used to be so excited and doubled over with joy to receive hand-me-downs (Of course, my neighbor had some GOOD clothes- some of them weren't even worn yet- can you believe that??)! Good job for passing along the clothes- and I can totally tell you're from the Midwest- you say "sack" instead of bag!
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