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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I can’t think of anyone UMC who wouldn’t be offended by gifting their kids used kid clothes. 
Just no.[/b] [/quote]

This has GOT to be a joke, right??
It's one of the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
 
Not running out to buy something *new* to wear all the time, is one of the many ways that the rich stay rich. 
My grandparents were extremly wealthy & exceedingly kind too, they devoted their lives to public service, giving back, and were very active board members of a number of AIDS & Cancer charities.
They ensured we went through cotillion, took etiquette classes, etc, and they would have been MORTIFIED to read your above statement.  
They were enormous philanthropists, and they never, ever adopted the attitude that they were better than anyone else. My grandfather had a staff of 15 working out of the house running his campaign, and he put every single one of his employees children & grandchildren through college... including those that YOU would consider "the help".

The only people who acted like you, were the ones who "thought" rich people acted this way by watching Dynasty.
Just the idea of someone acting in this kind of snobbish, "better than" manner, was such a complete turnoff to them, and god forbid if they ever heard one of the grandchildren acting like this... we would have been sent to boarding school until we learned how to act right.

They would have known you were a huge fake / wannabe right away.

Only those who hope to impress others by buying things they can't really afford or social climbing, had such absurd, nonsensical standards for clothing. 
You stuck out like a sore thumb wearing your million designer labels all at once.

Money may talk, but true wealth whispers..

I can't think of anyone UC who would act in such a snobbish way.

We grew up very comfortable / UC, and hand me downs were always running through our family!
I especially loved it when I got to be a teen, because my aunt would take my cousin on trips abroad to Europe every year, and while all I had for options around here was what everyone else in my HS was already wearing from the mall... but a few times a year she'd give me so some really cool stuff from Berlin, Paris, London that I couldn't get anywhere.  I loved that because everyone else was so GAP vanilla... if they REALLY wanted to get a little crazy, they'd pop an accent color on from something at Benetton, lol.

However, before I was a teen, we always passed each other clothing to the cousin's just below us.
I loved getting my favorite cousins things who is right above me in the lineage; she's two years older than me, and she's always been so effortlessly pretty, kind & cool, that my self esteem always got a little boost when I'd wear something of hers. 😊

She is still one of THE coolest, kindest and most awesome people I know, and now our kids hand me down clothing to each other.

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