I was the youngest of three girls, so I got my share of hand-me-down clothes. Still, in my parents' defense, I still got new clothes when my sisters did, twice a year-- for the new school year and for spring/summer. We rarely got clothes for Christmas or birthdays, just toys and other stuff as we got older. We'd get Barbie PJs and slippers, stuff like that, but my parents didn't use Christmas or birthdays as an opportunity to buy clothes. You're supposed to clothe your kids. That's how my mother felt anyway.

My mother would dress up so nice for holidays. I used to love looking at the old Easter pictures, with the three of us wearing pretty pastel colored dresses, hat and gloves and frilly socks with patent leather shoes.

As the youngest sibling in my family I had some hand me down clothes. ( more new ones though). A few were from my brother but most were from one of my sisters (t-shirts,shirts) she was only 2 years older than me.

As the older of two girls, my sister naturally got some of my old clothes. But it's so funny that as we got older and I stayed stick skinny (my sister was never fat but she had/has more of a classic womanly figure) I ended up getting HER hand me downs!! :eek: :lol: Even as adults, I got some of her old clothes as she went on to have kids and couldn't fit into some of them anymore.

My mother had a younger sister who was a divorced mother and didn't have much money. My mother always gave her, her own hand-me-down clothes throughout her entire adult life. I don't think my aunt ever bought clothes for herself. My mother grew tired of clothes easlily too, or maybe she just claimed to so she could give her sister more clothes. When my mother died, I gave my aunt big bags of clothes, coats, shoes, everything. My mother clothed her sister until her death.

My mother had a younger sister who was a divorced mother and didn't have much money. My mother always gave her, her own hand-me-down clothes throughout her entire adult life. I don't think my aunt ever bought clothes for herself. My mother grew tired of clothes easlily too, or maybe she just claimed to so she could give her sister more clothes. When my mother died, I gave my aunt big bags of clothes, coats, shoes, everything. My mother clothed her sister until her death.
That's so sweet. Your mother seemed like one generous soul. :)

That's so sweet. Your mother seemed like one generous soul. :)
Thanks Monika. I appreciate that. She was special. :)

Thanks Monika. I appreciate that. She was special. :)
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My brother and I had hand-me-downs growing up. Most of my baby dresses were croshayed by my great-grandma.

I had older cousins so I occasionally got some of their hand-me-downs. But I was/am the main hand-me-down-er.

My parents occasionally bought new clothes for me. But mostly I wore hand-me-downs from my older brother and my older cousins, all of whom are approx. 10 years older than me. So I ended up wearing a lot of clothes that were completely out of style. It didn't bother me until I was a teenager, when I started to notice that I looked like a dork. :lol: So I started being careful about the different hand-me-downs that I received, wearing the stuff that still looked sort of OK and refusing to wear the stuff that was really outdated.

Looking back, it doesn't bother me at all. Except for going to a restaurant and a movie once or twice a year, my parents never spent a dime on themselves. They raised me in a nice house in a nice neighborhood, and that's all that matters.

My parents occasionally bought new clothes for me. But mostly I wore hand-me-downs from my older brother and my older cousins, all of whom are approx. 10 years older than me. So I ended up wearing a lot of clothes that were completely out of style. It didn't bother me until I was a teenager, when I started to notice that I looked like a dork. :lol: So I started being careful about the different hand-me-downs that I received, wearing the stuff that still looked sort of OK and refusing to wear the stuff that was really outdated.

Looking back, it doesn't bother me at all. Except for going to a restaurant and a movie once or twice a year, my parents never spent a dime on themselves. They raised me in a nice house in a nice neighborhood, and that's all that matters.
Too bad the world doesn't have more parents like yours (and mine)!! The Gosselins, Octomom and the Balloon Boy family could do well to learn from them. :mad:

Too bad the world doesn't have more parents like yours (and mine)!! The Gosselins, Octomom and the Balloon Boy family could do well to learn from them. :mad:
No kidding!

As for me, I was an only child and both my parents were only children as well. My mother was adopted and from what all I hear, she was pretty spoiled by her parents so it's quite impossible to think that she would EVER have a hand-me-down! :lol: My dad probably did have a lot of hand-me-downs from his older cousins who he grew up with as a child, though. I'm sure he did because he was rather old when I was born and he actually grew up in the Great Depression era. My parents didn't meet and fall in love and get married until they were in their forties, so that's why I was an only. And yeah, looking back, I was probably pretty spoiled too. :lol: I never had to have hand-me-downs as I was the only child my parents ever had to buy clothes for. I personally hope to have more than one child of my own in my life someday, and in THIS horrible economy I am QUITE certain that my younger children WILL inherit a LOT of hand-me-downs from their older siblings! :lol:

Sometimes I got hand me downs, nothing wrong with that and I also got new clothes. My Mom would put things on lay away in the Summer. We were on a tight budget we were not rich but we always had food on the table. My Mom could really stretch a dollar, lol. When we had bacon for dinner things were tight.

Sometimes I got hand me downs, nothing wrong with that and I also got new clothes. My Mom would put things on lay away in the Summer. We were on a tight budget we were not rich but we always had food on the table. My Mom could really stretch a dollar, lol. When we had bacon for dinner things were tight.
Isn't it so great how our parents could do so much with so little?? :nod:

Too bad the world doesn't have more parents like yours (and mine)!!
:)

My older sister is 8 years older than me so I never got hand me downs from her. I did occasionally get hand me downs from cousins.