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Do your kids wear hand-me-downs?

post #1 of 23
8/1/05 at 6:59pm
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Do your kids wear hand-me-downs?
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post #2 of 23
8/1/05 at 7:12pm
yup--well if you consider garage sale stuff hand me downs?? I don't have anyone older than rhyne that I get clothes from, but braylen wears rhyne's unisex baby clothes.
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post #3 of 23
8/1/05 at 7:22pm
Yep she sure does! Most of her clothes came from one of my day care families. They're all like brand new. The only thing I have to buy are shoes although I do have trouble passing up cute stuff at the store every once in awhile.
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post #4 of 23
8/1/05 at 7:43pm


Oh yeah.. both of my kids wear hand-me-downs!

Mainly from my brothers 2 boys
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post #5 of 23
8/1/05 at 7:47pm
if i find anything nice like at a yard sale, but hand me downs from family or friends, no. i give Raymond clothes away that hes ungrown.
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post #6 of 23
8/1/05 at 9:44pm
Yes. Anything to save me money. But we don't have a lot of friends/family with older boys. So, I get a lot of things from garage sales and thrift stores and resale places if I find good deals.
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post #7 of 23
8/1/05 at 9:53pm
Not really. We just don't have anyone with older kids in our circle of friends/family. We did pick up some great stuff a couple weeks ago at a thrift store. We were in Canada for a couple weeks and thought it was gong to be warm. Well it ended up being much colder than we though and we went to a place called Frenchy's and picked up some great overalls (Gap) and some fleece tops for less than $1.00 each (Canadian). What a bargain!
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post #8 of 23
8/1/05 at 10:29pm
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Alisha has now and then but mostly not because she is only child.
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post #9 of 23
8/5/05 at 8:15am
Yes, Hayley wears hand me downs. My sil has 4 girls and she just gave me boxes of clothes, the only thing i had to buy were shoes. She also lent us all her baby furniture.
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post #10 of 23
8/5/05 at 8:23am
yes, Hayley wears hand me downs. My sil has 4 girls so she just gave me boxes of clothes that she they had outgrown. She also lent us all her baby furniture.
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post #11 of 23
8/5/05 at 11:24am
Oh yeah. Most of the time the new clothes are from the relatives.
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post #12 of 23
8/5/05 at 11:28am
Yes. Darien has gotten clothes from some older boys at church and Jonas wears all of Darien's clothes. Leah has gotten some clothes from some older girls at church and from someone DH works with. I have also bought the kids clothes off ebay, at consignment shops and garage sales. Nice clothes are way to expensive to buy full price all the time!
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post #13 of 23
8/5/05 at 11:29am
Not usually. Mostly because my kids are the first grandchildren and the first nephews and nieces and my brother and SIL spoil the kids rotten with clothes.

My aunt just gave me a bunch of 7's(even though Christian is in a 5) but my cousin went through his 7's so fast they are like brand new so I'm going to go through them and keep the jeans and such even if for play clothes (which we need a lot of here..LOL )

I don't refuse them but so many people buy them stuff that I try to wear the stuff people bought for them first, if that makes sense?
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post #14 of 23
8/5/05 at 11:51am
wendy that makes a ton of sense, my parents buy so many clothes for logan that sometimes we don't get the chance to buy any... but when we do buy stuff it is from consignment or discount racks... no real hand me downs to be found within my group of friends
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post #15 of 23
8/16/05 at 9:06am
Oh yes loads and loads of hand-me-downs. Gavin not so much anymore since the older they get the harder it is to find nice used items. Abby wears almost all of Maddie's old clothes although I have bought loads of new stuff as well. I am lucky in that our kids are the youngest of all the kids in the family so everyone sends me their hand-me-downs.
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post #16 of 23
8/16/05 at 9:51am
Yep all of them do.
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post #17 of 23
8/16/05 at 9:53am
We don't really have anyone to get hand me downs from. I do go to once upon a child sometimes for the younger two kids. There is two really nice ones within 30 min of me and I always find nice(and most of the time new) stuff.
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post #18 of 23
8/16/05 at 9:57am
I wanted to add that my boys are to hard on their clothes to pass them down to their brothers to. Michael and Devon did wear the same size until this summer though, so they shared clothes. Michael finally outgrew Devon in height this summer.
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post #19 of 23
8/16/05 at 11:07am
She sure does...we get clothes from Eric's SIL's little girl and the family across the street. Some of the clothes are too big for Elizabeth, but next summer and next winter she will have a lot of clothes.

I also go to yard sales...I have found great deals there.
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post #20 of 23
8/16/05 at 11:10am
Ryan doesn’t – ( I think I prob would have him wear some but I don’t know anyone who is handing down boys clothes) … but Aidan definitely will… he will be wearing Ryan’s hand me downs
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post #21 of 23
8/16/05 at 11:12am
Yes, most definately.
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post #22 of 23
8/21/05 at 10:00am
This second baby will be wearing most of Michael's baby clothes, except the preemie sized ones....Matthew will definately not be a preemie...
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post #23 of 23
8/25/05 at 9:51pm
Heck yes. My SIL gives me stuff all the time for Jasmine. Which is nice because its all name brand stuff still in good shape.
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