One advantage to having girl cousins is being able to hand things down. Although I am the oldest girl cousin, I had received a few boxes of clothes from my Mom's cousin's daughter, Devy when I was in high school. I only met Devy once, but luckily we were the same size at the time and I was in desperate need of clothes.
Other than Devy, I haven't really been able to take advantage of someone else handing things to me too often. I was able to borrow a few things from Michelle, but being a foot taller than her kind of made us wear different sizes. For years and years Beth was the happy recipient of my clothes that I no longer liked to wear. Actually, mostly just shirts but she was happy to have them. Before I moved, I gave Desiree (close friend, kinda like an adopted cousin) about two huge trash bags of clothes. Most of them were work clothes that I knew I was not going to be wearing again. Wool slacks, work jackets, button down shirts, cute skirts...etc.
Well, Diana is now enjoying the fruits of the hand me downs. Obviously she would never wear anything that I would wear (kind of a big age gap there), but she likes Katya's style and they wear the same size. Sooooooooooo, last night Katya and I went through every article of clothing that Katya had stashed in her closet. I didn't realize that we haven't really purged since we moved here. There were a LOT of clothes! Diana had come over for dinner and she had a good time going through the piles of clothes to see what she liked and would wear. She left with about five bags of clothes. I am so glad that she liked so many of the clothes. Some of them were only worn once or twice and others are just plain cute. I am a freak about taking care of clothes, so they are all in good condition. Diana should get lots of use out of them. I would always prefer that someone that I know get our stuff that we no longer want or need, instead of just taking it to Goodwill.
Luckily, Diana lives close to us so she can always have first dibs on our "good stuff".
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4 comments:
Hell yeah!!! I'm wearing a cute blue Billabong shirt as I type.. thank you soooo much deb and Katya!!!!!!
I love hand me downs. In fact, just tonight I was talking to a friend who has a 7 year old boy... she mentioned she needs to have a garage sale. This girl dresses her kids to the hilt, so I jumped all over it. "Uh, I will be there tomorrow to buy all of it."
I guess since I am buying it, it's more like ebay without the auction, instead of hand me downs. But we like to give Maddy's hand me downs to Savannah. And I had some of Jack's to give to you, but they are still in a box that I still cannot find. What size is he wearing now anyway?
Apparently Mandee is also giving you Logan some of Jack's clothes. I have more clothes for him, too. It is in good conditions.
Too bad, I am unable to hand it down to the girls... bummer !
I remember hand me downs. When I was yonger I have to admit that I hated them since everyone was 7 or 8 inched taller than me the clothes were always too big, but we were broke so I didn't have a lot choice. Now I love them since I'm still broke and don't really care if cloths bag a little since I'm not in high school and fashion isn't nearly so important. Yeah Diana! Katya has some great stuff and I'm stoked that you get to take advantage of that!
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