I don't understand it
By bonnie
@bunnybon7 (50973)
Holiday, Florida
January 16, 2021 9:49am CST
When I was in school and my kids too, just before school started, we would go school clothes shopping.
5 new outfits were bought for each kid. each day we put one on in rotation and when we came home first thing was change in to old clothes and hang up the school clothes. We never was allowed to wear them any other time. Every 2 weeks they got washed. Because they were to last out the school year. had to take care of them. We got 1 maybe 2 pairs shoes treated the same.
my grand daughter in law took her girl to get a bunch of school clothes. 5 outfits AND matching shoes for each !! In this economy ?
I could over look her acting like we are rich if it wasn't for what happened next.
My daughter said " Oh, that's nice. When you come home you should take them off and hang them up and take care of them. " Did she? NO
She plays in them and throws them in the floor and her mom lets her.
people need to learn saving these days especially in this economy.
Don't you think ?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
16 Jan 21
I have to agree with you. We had a lot of hand me downs growing up too. It didn't matter if we didn't like the outfit, we had to wear it because that's what our parents / grandparents / aunts and uncles could afford.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
16 Jan 21
I guess what bothers me most is that I am paying all the bills and she don't seem to be saving up money to get her own place. uuugg!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
16 Jan 21
@bunnybon7 Oh that would frustrate me as well. She needs to start saving up, even if it's just $1.00 or two at a time. In the mean time, goodwill and salvation army clothes for the kids isn't going to hurt anything.
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
17 Jan 21
Things are different now from when I grew up and even when I raised Pretty. I got a lot of hand-me-downs when I was a kid. With 10 older brothers, there were always clothes that were still worth wearing around. I wasn't allowed to wear them after I got home, either. Off they came and on went old clothes that were almost worn out.
I made Pretty do the same. She could wear last year's clothes after she got home from school and the new clothes were either put on a hanger for another day or thrown into the laundry basket.
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
17 Jan 21
@rz3300 I buy a couple of new shirts every year but still wear the old ones until they are worn out or my daughter, Pretty, takes them for herself.
She was wearing one of my favorite shirts yesterday. When I commented on it she said she was going to cut the sleeves off and use it for a nightgown. 
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@rz3300 (357)
• United States
17 Jan 21
I still don't wear new things until the old are basically wearing out completely @DaddyEvil
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
17 Jan 21
@DaddyEvil wow that's a lot of brothers . I was an only child of my mom and I probably could have went another year sometimes with the same school clothes. I took good care of them but as for shoes not so much.
In fact I scuffed them up so much that mom would only buy me saddle locks and I had to polish them all the time .
She always fussed at me over shoes
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@rebelann (111163)
• El Paso, Texas
30 Jan 21
Wow, brand new clothes for school? When I was a kid mom went to the 2nd hand store on the base to get us school clothes and shoes. We didn't get lots of clothes but it was enough to get us through school. Since I had to wear dresses to school in those days I'd naturally change into pants when I'd get home.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
4 Feb 21
My mom would make the exception every school year with help from my step dad and real dad since they all worked. and by the time I was 12 I was also having to contribute with my baby sitting money other odd jobs I did.
Gave me a sense of saving and work ethics 
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
16 Jan 21
hoping people will go back to it here. We need to slow down on resources
@JudyEv (325693)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jan 21
People have no idea of how to economise or how to live even a little bit frugally.
@nela13 (55698)
• Portugal
19 Jan 21
You're right, it is also part of her education, she will grow up thinking she can afford everything and that is not good.
@LindaOHio (156056)
• United States
17 Jan 21
I agree. Her daughter needs to learn about respect and care for her personal items too.
