Would you take Offence at Being Offered Second Hand Clothes?

I live in a large city, well, its large now anyway. I have 4 Goodwills I go to regularly, and a few more that I can get to on the way to other places. I know where some Salvation Armys are too, but I don't like them as much. I do drop off a lot of clothes, and many other things, and I buy a lot of books and some clothes at them. But more books and "pretties" like I need more of those!

I would be delighted if some kind person offered me some good secondhand clothes. I lived in India for 3 years and that really opened my eyes about recycling everything we can, and not just clothes. To me clothes are just a necessary covering and shouldn't be given such a high status in our lives. Yes, of course we all want to look as nice as we can but we shouldn't be obsessed by needing all the latest gear at designer prices, and then binning them after they have gone out of fashion! I love trawling in charity shops and feel that my tiny efforts have made a difference to the planet. I have also found some unique items that I love. Recycling is the way we need to go if we are going to heal our fabulous planet.

back when we didn't have much, i am so used to second-hand clothes so much that i wasn't sure which clothes were originally mine from the beginning. hehe having 4 older sisters, 2 older brothers and a younger bro, i've been used to receiving hand-me-down and pass-me-around clothes. even now that we have closets and cabinets overflowing with clothes, we still pass clothes around with our ever growing family. i don't get offended if someone would offer me second-hand clothes. i appreciate them in the same way i do hope somebody else will appreciate the clothes we give away too. because at one point, those have been special to us. also, we do recycle and recreate outfits to fit us better and this saves us a lot of money for costumes and such.

I grew up wearing second hand clothes and I have a friend that buys most of her clothes at a thrift shop and she finds some very pretty things! I don't need alot of clothes anymore...but I do give my clothes away to a charity when I am finished with them.

I belonged to a moms group for awhile and often we would swap or pass on kids clothes to each other when our kids grew out of them. Generally we only offered nice things, either unworn, gently worn, or otherwise with plenty of wear left, so nothing with rips or holes or stains unless someone was looking for worn out play clothes. We have also collected used items to help out families who may have lost a home to fire or been evicted and lost things because they could only keep what would fit in their vehicle or downsize to a small apartment. I don't mind second hand clothes - although I would never consider giving them as a gift lol.

Never be ashamed to take advantage of a good deal. I have a friend who shops way too much and then her daughter goes months without wearing these clothes she buys and so she gives them to my daughter. I love it. Saves me a ton of money. Some of my favorite outfits come from thrift shops also. Some people get tired of their clothes and give them away but they are far from being worn out. I'm with you all the way. As long as they aren't "under" clothes, take what you can get. Especially in these days.

I donate to my local resale shops. I shop the local resale shops. No one around except family to give me clothes. When my kids were young we started something, and I am not sure who started it, but we had a box and we would put what we did not want in it, and take what we wanted out of it, and pass it on. I LOVED seeing some one else, some little girl, wearing clothes I had made very lovingly for my daughter. I feel rich because of second hand clothes.

are you kidding? hubby and i both work but don't make a whole lot of money and we have two teenaged daughters who love clothes. we have friends and family members who only buy designer stuff or high end stuff and they always give us their hand me downs. i NEVER say no to anything free! (i also shop at thrift stores a lot too!)

A lot of people here in the U.S. would be offended, but not me. If they were rags, I would laugh but good used clothing is always welcome. People should find more ways to re-use items and feel flattered when someone cares enough to offer them used clothing and other good items. I avoid buying new whenever possible. I can think of better ways of spending my money. If someone offers me secondhand clothing, I'll accept with thanks.

We do have a lot of second hand shops which I visit frequently. In the house we used to live in my next door neighbor frequently gave me her kid's outgrown clothes. She had a daughter just a year older than my daughter, and a son just about a year older than one of my son's.. so I got those clothes almost every season. I was not offended. I have 5 kids.. she has 6.. she understands that putting clothes on children is expensive and difficult. Besides that.. the neighbor across the street had a girl older than hers and a boy older than hers and would also give her a lot of hand me downs as well.. so those hand me downs usually ended up in my possession eventually. Generally the hand me downs I get are for the kids.. though about a week ago my manager at work started asking me what size I wear. She'd just cleaned out her closet and asked if I'd be offended if she offered me the clothes. Not sure why she thought to ask me.. she's got 3 daughters who are close to my age and she knows tons of people. If I start to think of it like that.. then I might get offended.. "Of all the people she knows why would she think to ask me? Does she think I can't afford my own clothes?" But chances are she wasn't thinking like that. It was probably more along the lines of while we were working together she started thinking about all those clothes she just cleaned out of her closet and since I was there and around her size (everyone else we work with are toothpicks!) she figured she'd offer them to me. I told her I'd accept them.

I go to secondhand stores often to buy clothes, but I have accepted clothes from friends or memebers of my family, because they didn`t use them anymore and thought I might like it or I might want to recycle it and make them into my own style. I like recycling clothes and changing them to look more stylish, so as long as those clothes can be worn and don`t have holes on them, I have no problem to accept second hand clothes.

Me neither. I seriously don't mind getting second-hand clothes because I like using decorated cloth to make new things and there's no shame in receiving something that generally was intended for good. I remember this churchmate of ours who loved passing on her daughter's clothes to my sister, the outfits were kind of out of style in the nineties but they were great for theme parties and these days vintage is in, so it's actually kind of cool to wear second-hand clothes.:)

i do. when i was younger i bought a lot of clothes from charity shops because they were trendier. a lot of american 50's style clothing. all second hand. it is no different from buying clothes brand new, you only wear it if you like it.