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[quote=Anonymous]WTH are you talking about???
Why in the world you got that impression? People asked me to share how we do it and I shared. Some
of you jumped on me trying to find faults on the math, holes on my budget and mocking our choices and I'm the self righteous one? This gotta be a joke!

And to the curious PP, when we get hand me downs I usually ask if the person wants it back or not. If they do I return it washed/cleaned if not I either pass it to someone in need or donate to my charity of choice at the moment. I thought this is what everybody does, no?

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not the Frugal Poster, but I consider anything I buy for my one-year-old DD to be in the want category rather than the need category.  Between hand me downs and grammies we have more stuff than we can deal with.  If we were struggling and needed to cut back, I would actively seek out hand me downs and be more specific with our moms about what we need.[/quote]

You're lucky to have really supportive grammies and a lot of friends willing to share their hand me downs!

Not the case with us. My parents are overseas, DH's parents are in Philly and are really cheap. And we're new to the area, so we have to completely fend for ourselves.

I consider stuff for my daughter to be in the 'need' category, because if I don't buy it, she'd have to do without. And a kid does need at least some basic toys, not to mention clothing..[/quote]

This pretty much captures what's most annoying to me about the frugal poster spending $40 week on groceries. Instead of acknowledging and being grateful for the many, many subsidies in her life, she thinks it makes her [b]more virtuous than the rest of us[/b]. [/quote][/quote]

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