Oh, snap, Burl! Actually that was a pretty funny comment. As for Timmy, sounds like he’s turning into an entitled little snot. Everyone in my family has worn (and has passed down) used clothes, it’s the only economical thing to do! Sheeesh! I can still remember my grandmother quoting this little poem: Use it up, wear it out, make do or do without!’ Words to live by!
I might side with Timmy on this… but it depends on how old the cousins are, and how many times the clothes have been passed along already.
My family was military…and wherever were were, we’d be bought a few new things, and sent new jackets and sweaters by my paternal grandparents, who had a menswear store..but mostly, we were shipped boxes of hand-me-downs from all our cousins.I wore them all through grade school, and well into high school.
My sister, though, mostly got MY clothes, after they’d been through a cousin or three before me…and at a young age, she put her foot down….stamped it, actually …cried and howled and got new clothes.It never occurred to me to do that… I wasn’t fussy.
As a result, I very seldom got anything that was in style…and I seldom knew it.In fact, while I read magazines, and I fought for, and finally got, a few things that “all the girls were wearing”, I also had several favorites that were probably 10 to 20 years behind the times…and I loved them.
Yeah… Dork City.Maybe Timmy knows better!
On the other hand, I was pre-primed for the vintage clothing business, at which I later made a living for years.
2Old, and Muzzy…Instead of sending you back there, I’m going to copy and paste what I posted to you late on yesterday’s strip…cos it’s about Marg, and maybe others want to know too:
“Marg is just fine. She’s not banned so has no need of another ID.
She just decided (as I should, but won’t!) that the thing they call “real life” should take precedence over all the hours she was spending on the comics.
Well that’s her story, anyway….
(I promised I wouldn’t talk about the … you know… rehab and prison and stuff. Shhhh…)”
I purposely bought gender neutral clothing when my daughter was born; you know, T-shirt and jeans, the kind without batman and such on them. They worked very well when our son was born. We didn’t have a lot of money back then and I couldn’t take chances.
Weird thing is hand-me-downs from family or even friends were fine… even necessary…but my Mom thought thrift shops were for the indigent, and everything in there was dirty and disgusting….
…. even though she volunteered at the base thrift shop, and no one could shop there except military personnel!
At 15 I saved up and bought a very old sewing machine and taught myself to sew.. They were embarrassed when I made skirts and blouses…like I was advertising poverty… and while they would buy me clothes, they never bought me one yard of cloth.
When I was about 20, living on my own, I showed my mother how I’d learned to darn a sock…more of a craft project than anything else…and she cried.
Days later she mailed me a parcel full of socks.
They were horrified when eventually all my furniture and most of everything else I owned was antique or secondhand…and did NOT share my pride when I owned my first vintage clothing store at the age of 24.
Laura Gildwarg over 9 years ago
Oh, snap, Burl! Actually that was a pretty funny comment. As for Timmy, sounds like he’s turning into an entitled little snot. Everyone in my family has worn (and has passed down) used clothes, it’s the only economical thing to do! Sheeesh! I can still remember my grandmother quoting this little poem: Use it up, wear it out, make do or do without!’ Words to live by!
Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member over 9 years ago
My daughter in law wears my hand-me-downs and she doesn’t complain. Saves me a trip to the Goodwill.Alas I had nobody to hand-me-down anything. sigh
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 9 years ago
I might side with Timmy on this… but it depends on how old the cousins are, and how many times the clothes have been passed along already.
My family was military…and wherever were were, we’d be bought a few new things, and sent new jackets and sweaters by my paternal grandparents, who had a menswear store..but mostly, we were shipped boxes of hand-me-downs from all our cousins.I wore them all through grade school, and well into high school.
My sister, though, mostly got MY clothes, after they’d been through a cousin or three before me…and at a young age, she put her foot down….stamped it, actually …cried and howled and got new clothes.It never occurred to me to do that… I wasn’t fussy.
As a result, I very seldom got anything that was in style…and I seldom knew it.In fact, while I read magazines, and I fought for, and finally got, a few things that “all the girls were wearing”, I also had several favorites that were probably 10 to 20 years behind the times…and I loved them.
Yeah… Dork City.Maybe Timmy knows better!
On the other hand, I was pre-primed for the vintage clothing business, at which I later made a living for years.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 9 years ago
2Old, and Muzzy…Instead of sending you back there, I’m going to copy and paste what I posted to you late on yesterday’s strip…cos it’s about Marg, and maybe others want to know too:
“Marg is just fine. She’s not banned so has no need of another ID.
She just decided (as I should, but won’t!) that the thing they call “real life” should take precedence over all the hours she was spending on the comics.
Well that’s her story, anyway….
(I promised I wouldn’t talk about the … you know… rehab and prison and stuff. Shhhh…)”
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 9 years ago
I miss her on the comics, though…and Leakysqueaky..they were the life of Crustwood!
Oh… and P51Strega…I thanked you yesterday too.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 9 years ago
PacoP… probably has wheels on it.
elysummers over 9 years ago
I purposely bought gender neutral clothing when my daughter was born; you know, T-shirt and jeans, the kind without batman and such on them. They worked very well when our son was born. We didn’t have a lot of money back then and I couldn’t take chances.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 9 years ago
2Old… my parents too!
Weird thing is hand-me-downs from family or even friends were fine… even necessary…but my Mom thought thrift shops were for the indigent, and everything in there was dirty and disgusting….
…. even though she volunteered at the base thrift shop, and no one could shop there except military personnel!
At 15 I saved up and bought a very old sewing machine and taught myself to sew.. They were embarrassed when I made skirts and blouses…like I was advertising poverty… and while they would buy me clothes, they never bought me one yard of cloth.
When I was about 20, living on my own, I showed my mother how I’d learned to darn a sock…more of a craft project than anything else…and she cried.
Days later she mailed me a parcel full of socks.
They were horrified when eventually all my furniture and most of everything else I owned was antique or secondhand…and did NOT share my pride when I owned my first vintage clothing store at the age of 24.