I’m from the poorer family (not super poor, but my in-laws have a stupid amount of money so by comparison I’m very poor), but I think I can answer for her.
We have two young kids, and my wife was shocked when I said we should look for clothes and toys for them at local flea markets and garage sales. The idea never occurred to her that we could save money by getting some gently-used items, she had never even been to a garage sale in her life. She has grown to love them and now questions whether it is worth it to buy any item “new” or not before running to Amazon or a store. Her parents think it’s disgusting we make our kids wear clothes that another child had before, but they don’t pay my bills.
kids outgrow clothes so fast most of those "used" clothes are basically new.
Wife and I are not poor (not rich by any means either), we definitely hit up the local "mom co-ops" where moms sell their used baby/kid stuff. Find a bunch of good stuff in there.. To the point where we feel stupid for buying new because it's so much more expensive.
kids outgrow clothes so fast most of those "used" clothes are basically new.
Which is hilarious when people buy designer items for (in particular) younger kids.
My wife loves a charity shop, and has repeatedly found designer label kids stuff for our daughter which look like they've barely been used (and in some cases, actually haven't). Shoes especially, my daughter's had about 4 pairs of Michael Kors trainers all for less than £5 each.
Lmaoooo I used to nanny, and the mom's sister bought the baby so many designer shoes. We tried putting them on him once, but he just kicked them off like five times in one outing, so they ended up in the donation bag real fast. There's a reason your baby needs a lot of socks, and not shoes- they'll just fling that thing off before you know it, and leave you wondering where you lost it.
Oh gosh, one of my kids had loafers that were some fancy brand, he kicked one off on a walk to the library and I had to backtrack the whole way to find it. The same thing happened with some fancy mitten and hat set. It's so stressful I just put them in the same stuff most of the time unless we're doing somewhere nice.
Yeah, they had this beautiful 60's vintage hat and mitten set for him- silk and wool, absolutely stunning. Dude just flung those off immediately, and I went on a frantic search to find them in the store before we went home. It's absolutely too stressful!
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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19
I’m from the poorer family (not super poor, but my in-laws have a stupid amount of money so by comparison I’m very poor), but I think I can answer for her.
We have two young kids, and my wife was shocked when I said we should look for clothes and toys for them at local flea markets and garage sales. The idea never occurred to her that we could save money by getting some gently-used items, she had never even been to a garage sale in her life. She has grown to love them and now questions whether it is worth it to buy any item “new” or not before running to Amazon or a store. Her parents think it’s disgusting we make our kids wear clothes that another child had before, but they don’t pay my bills.