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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you pass on hand me downs you filter out the torn and stained and worn out crap, obviously. You pass on only the barely worn things, that can pass for nearly new. Everyone knows this. You don't want a baby's onesie stained in puke etc you want a clean one.

I think this is obvious to those of us who like getting hand-me-downs and who know what to pass along to others.

What is bizarre is the people assuming all hand me downs have already been worn by multiple kids and are ruined. Those clothes should go in recycling bins. [/quote]

There's what should happen and there is what does happen. I have certainly gotten stained tattered clothes from well meaning people that I found unusable. And I have also saved clothes for my own kids and when it came time to wear them discovered spots and stains that I don't remember being there. Sometimes being in storage bring those things out. I think sometimes people just have different standards of what is acceptable for their kids to wear or they just notice stains that stand out to others. But most used clothes look used especially the older the kid who wear the clothes longer and play harder in them. After my kids were out of baby clothes I had no interest in anyone's hand me downs because they just never looked that great unless it was a party or holiday dress that had only been worn one time. But that faded t-shirt? No thanks. [/quote]

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