Do you re use clothes within your family? Hand me down clothes?

Of course. I used to get all of my sisters stuff. Whatever I wanted I took and everything else was given to good will. I still have some of their things in my closet. One of my favorite is a Maryland College red sweater that I just like how it fits on me. My kids do the same. My youngest normally gets my eldest clothes when he can fit them. Of course both of them get their share of new clothes because my family keeps buying them things. I even got some clothes from a friend of mine who had 2 older boys who didn't fit into their old clothes and another of my friends grandmother's gave me some slippers and shoes for my son when he was younger which was my friends little brothers old ones. I think its good to share those type of things. Although my grandmother tried to give me my little cousins old underwear for my kids...that's just a little off.

I have one younger brother that was 7 years younger than me so we couldn't hand clothes down. My mother gave some of clothes when I was a child to her brother and his wife that had 4 girls. But, there was no one to give my brothers clothing go so she would ask around and if anybody knew of anyone that could use them she gave them to that person. I had one daughter and no one to give her clothing to so I sold some of then consignment shops and donated some and now I sell my grandaughter's clothing on ebay because there is still no one to pass them down to. My daughter has no aunts, cousins and one uncle. My grandaughter doesn't know her father.

Oh yes, same with us. we also give away clothes to the next kid in the family. that is a wise thing to do. That way you really get the utmost worth of the clothes. Kids do grow up so fast and it is such a waste if the clothes that they have outgrown will cease from being used at all. I also do give outgrown clothes of my son not just to relatives but friends as well. My son has lot shirts and pants when he was a kid because my friends would normally gift him with clothes. I kept them carefully and waited for the next kid in the family who could use them. Now my twin grandchildren are now using those shirts that I kept.

Unfortuanately my child is the smallest in the family (even most of those younger than him) so I really don't get to pass his clothes on to anyone. I think some of the members of my family do pass hand me downs. Most of my family would consider me more financially set than all of the members of my family so they don't consider me as needing them or wanting them if that makes sense. I've never said that or thought that, but thats what they assume I am sure.

I think there's nothing wrong with it.lol, we are a big family and I grew up wearing clothes from my aunts and cousins. then when my mom gave birth to my youngest sister she gets to have all my small clothes. Good thing is my mom takes care of them well so she can give it away with my younger cousins too. I think as long as the clothes are clean and still look good we can wear them but be sure the real owners don't have hand me downs bacteria too. lol

It happens with my close relationship and family members..really we were 5 cousins in one after one age...since we bought costlier clother once it has become small for one and it goes to the hands of other...and basically it gives satisfaction to use it more times and having more clothes for children tooo... I am to wear my big bro dress and small bro is ready wear my old dress tooo.. Its way of exchanging and it develops children minds to have sharing life in their future too.. Still my family is carryig hand me down clothes...

I grew up in that kind of tradition or practice. In my home now, we still do that though we have extended it further. We usually give away the unwanted clothes to more needy relatives.

I am a big fan of hand me downs !! I don't see any reason to throw away a perfectly good outfit just because someone has outgrown it . With five children they all recieve hand me downs except for my son as he is the only boy . I don't like to waste money for no reason and throwing away a perfectly good outfit just because another child wore it to be is pointless . There is a lady down the road who sends me hand me downs from her daughter . She will not put anything from Walmart on her child and would never consider putting hand me downs on her daughter . I think she looks at me as some kind of poverty case but I don't care if she wants to give me perfectly good clothes , then I am certainly going to accept them . She has given me brand new outfits never been worn because they are not from the Gap or some brand name outfit . Now I like brand name clothes but am not going to waste money on this just to dress my children . If something is on sale then I will buy it but you can get a lot of really nice clothes at other stores as well .

its not really a tradition or a must but usually my sister gives old clothes to my kids which are still wearable and in good condition...now that i have a small child her clothes came from my sisters baby girl...i appreciate it because i cannot afford to buy my baby girl clothers since i resigned from my job and i have no income..i just rely on my husbands salary which is very small by the way.

Sounds very interesting!! But don't the clothes wear off? We never had hand me downs in our family. And I have observed that, in most families, the younger one wants brand new clothes. He/she doesn't want what his/her big brother/sister had once worn. :) Cheers and happy mylotting

I do sometimes, it depends on what the item of clothes is and how worn it is. I do buy my boys the same items and then pass the youngest one onto somone else and then give the youngest boy the eldest's colthes. My little boy does wonder sometimes how his big brothers sems to grow a lot and he doesn't!!

its not just a tradition with our family. it's a sacred code of conduct that everyone has to comply with. hehe. most my daughter's clothes were handed down to me by my younger sister who had a baby earlier than i did (she gave birth to a boy, so you can imagine the kind of clothes that svet has to wear from time to time. doesn't help boost her image as a girl. hee hee. now the next to give birth in my family will benefit from svet's clothes, along with some of my younger sister's son's clothes. you know what the penalty for breaking this sacred code of conduct is? violators will be cast out as pariahs, never to be treated as family again. i'm serious about this. my uncle's wife (i do not call her aunt. i call her by her first name. i sometimes do not even call her by her first name, because she is a petty thief. she stole things from my relatives' houses who were kind enough to take her in. i swear she is the worst person alive) gave away the clothes to other people (not family! the nerve!) handed down to her by my other aunts. anyways, she is not considered as family because of this, coupled with the fact that she has committed crimes against us that a true family would not imagine of committing to relatives. here's a novel if i ever saw one

i love hand me downs they are great when you have kids or even for me anything to save a little bit of money and in my situation it works out great me and my cousin both have a boy and girl i have the oldest girl and she has the oldest boy so we pass down clothes for both kids.it really helps out alot.

hi pehpot, generally i don't reuse the clothes. i am the only daughter in my home and so usually i don't share my clothes. i am used to this kind of thing and so now i don't have the habit of sharing my things with anyone. but my clothes are reused by my sister. happy mylotting!

No I don't.We are a big family but our children have big age gaps.We all normally give away our clothes to our servants and their family.But I feel there is nothing wrong in using the pass me downs if its your immediate family.

In our family when a child is born we just dont buy a new cloth from the shop directly we get old clothes of the babies from our relations or neighbors and wear it first for few weeks then we get new clothes for those babies to wear .Yes i remember i wore my sisters dresses they are not old actually my sisters get dresses from outside sometimes they never see their size and it would not fit them those dresses they give it to me and i used to wear them but my parents wont allow us to wear any dresses which were worn by others .But my own brother used to wear my pants inside our home sometimes when his all dress are in washing machine

oh most definitely! i get clothes given to me from people at church for both my daughters and they get pretty excited to see whats there. when my youngest daughter grows out of her clothes, we pass them along to my hubby's little brother, for his daughters.

I don't usually get hand me down clothe since im the eldest. My 4 sisters do. haha.

Yeah i guess everybody does this kind of pass on thing or pass on clothes things. Maybe because we think it is "sayang" or it will be a waste if we will just give it to others (especially we buy really the best for our kids "branded thing") so instead of giving it to someone we will hand it to our sisters or brothers for them to use or for their son's or daughter's use.

Yes we re use clothes with in our family,It doesn't matter as long as the clothes are okay and still can be use.It's not a big deal for our family.We give clothes to my relatives that my kids are not wearing anymore,i know that it could help them.Same way around my in laws also give us clothes that they know that it can be useful.We should be practical and thankful that within the family we practice sharing.Good Day!!!!