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Feb 04 '08 by wish-ga

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Hand me downs

Another thread got me to thinking about hand me downs...... Do people still do hand me downs? I got heaps of hand me downs growing up.

I was small for my age so hand me downs came not only from elder cousins/family friends but even my same aged cousin. I don't remember it bothering me. It was just the done thing. By the same token I don't remember eyeing off outfits on the wearer thinking *grow, grow* so I could score it.

Some dresses or outfits I got in two colours because once upon a time mothers dressed sisters samey but diff colour schemes. Thankfully seems not as prevalent these days
(or is it?)

Go on .... post ya pix. You know you have some scanned.

Noodlegirl on Feb 04 '08 at 10:06pm

Not really.

Now I wish I got a lot of my mom's clothes, but she got rid of them all, I do have one shirt of hers. It's a girl scouts shirt that says "Scouting is my bag" on the back and there's a backpack drawn on the back of the shirt.

KBShakedown on Feb 04 '08 at 10:08pm

I only have a sister. We don't really share the same taste in clothing... or gender.

5 days later

wish-ga on Feb 10 '08 at 8:32pm

Hand me downs: Zero.
Consumerism: One. (perhaps should be: won!)

canceromega on Feb 10 '08 at 8:34pm

I'm totally using a hand me down gown for graduation. It beats spending over $30 on a new one.

Chipmnk on Feb 10 '08 at 8:35pm

I have a lot. I get a lot of my brother's and my dad's old clothes. My favorite and most-worn hand-me-downs is one of my dad's old blazers.

AsStarsGoOut on Feb 10 '08 at 8:39pm

i got a bunch of hand me downs from my friend after she had her baby she gained weight and gave me all her itty bitty pants. in fact i'm wearing some now, AND i'm wearing a shirt hand me downed from my friend who lost weight.

i absolutly love hand me downs

straw8erry333 on Feb 10 '08 at 8:40pm

My sisters and I kind of trade clothing. One of us will get bored with something and then one of the others will borrow it forever . . . and then we'll notice it in the closet and swipe it back years later. So I'm not sure if it's a hand-me down or if it would considered long term sharing.
With my kids a lot of their play clothes end up being hand-me downs. Then I don't have to freak out when they stain it.

AsStarsGoOut on Feb 10 '08 at 8:42pm

whenever i go through my closet and get rid of clothes i offer them to my friends first. I gave the girl who had the baby a huge bag of clothes that i dont wear anymore to split w. her step daughter

AsStarsGoOut on Feb 10 '08 at 8:42pm

theres this one shirt that i had in 9th grade, i gave it to derek, he gave it to his brother who gave it to his sister who g9ves it to the step daughter to sleep in sometimes. . .sharing is caring.

FionaB on Feb 10 '08 at 8:47pm

when i was younger, it was all hand-me-downs, but now that we're older, we sort of trade clothing now

wish-ga on Feb 10 '08 at 8:55pm

Yeah, as a kid it is a hand-me-down. As adult humans it is 'trading' or 'first dibs'.

Kerrn on Feb 10 '08 at 9:05pm

i'm one of seven children.
hand me downs are a way of life.

-k.

V1ctorya on Feb 10 '08 at 9:26pm

I got my brother's hand me downs growing up, hated it as, well, not the same gender as him. But we was poor officer, we was poor.

Now I put my clothes up on Craigslist if my friends don't want them (those who could fit them) though sometimes my closets do get raided by friends anyway. But craigslist is nice, people at least TELL me they need them and aren't selling them off elsewhere.

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