I am the little sister who always wore hand-me-downs. I'm sure I didn't mind as a toddler, but come elementary school, I wanted my own clothes. Then when I got to high school I was practically begging my sister to give me her old clothes. Now that I have kids of my own, I love hand-me-downs once again. It's great having two girls, I saved ALL of Courtney's clothes and now Caylee gets to wear them. Fortunately, when they are infants they barely wear them so everything is in good condition.
We have been blessed so much with hand-me-downs from others as well. I have a few friends who have given Caylee clothes and in the past I had people give Courtney clothes. Now her friend Haley has given her a bunch. It's good to have a friend who is a size bigger!
I love to give away our clothes when we are done with them too. Each time i have given a bag of clothes away i take the time to maje sure they are going to a good family, who will use them and then pass them on when they are done. It is fun to bless others as we have been blessed.
But with all these clothes coming and going, it is soo much work. I bring in a box from the garage of Caylee's next clothes and I have to pull all the old ones out and put them in a bag and hang the new ones up. Then I have to go thru all of Courtney's clothes and pull out what she has grown out of and box it up for Caylee. It's quite the process. The other hard part is when to do it. Between the two girls, one is sleeping in the room. Since Ben was gone this weekend I took the opportunity the go into the girl's room after they went to sleep and purged for about and hour Friday night, 2 hours Saturday night and then a little bit before church today and I still have more to do. But once I'm done we will be good to go for a while.
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