Hand-me-downs…Why Of Course!
Recently I heard it from my mother-in-law that there is a Chinese saying: “wear clothes from 100 families, keep the sickness away”. Anyway, this relates to the fact that though it never crossed my mind to ask or receive hand-me-downs from Matthew’s 2 older boy cousins but come this winter, he will be wearing some. In fact, he has recently put on his cousin Connor’s down jacket as we welcomed some snow fall on Saturday. I must admit that I have spent generously on Matthew’s clothing needs or I should say overly spent. It becomes easily hundreds of dollars on things that he either wears for a few times or not wear at all. This alone is the reason to give hand-me-downs a vote of yes. I want to try to reduce the waste because frankly, it’s just not necessary to buy EVERYTHING new.
