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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for the responses. Interesting perceptions and ok, maybe wifey shouldn’t be the word I should have used but I was a little bit perturbed this morning.

Well, I am usually out daily working but my wife is a sahm so naturally I have much less time to shop for bargains or deals. Hence she does it.

But like some has mentioned, a bottle where a child clearly had not cared for a $40 bottle and chewed it shows they have no care for their own things. Like I doubt my kids chew on their bottles, let alone would do it to a $40 bottle. But it also speaks how much they will care for their cleanliness if they don’t care about leaving tooth marks all over the spout. Seems like a nasty or indifferent previous owner?

Secondly I guess it is not just me but some of the comments above has also felt they wouldn’t buy a used water bottle from a thrift store. Why? Because some really do find it ick! Like she dumped our $5 bottle (maybe target or Walmart) and replaced mine too with a klean kanteen with a girls name still written in sharpie at the bottom. Had to scrub her name out! That bottle was decided for me!

We have three girls and they all got different water bottles but two of the three had teeth marks and the last looked somewhat ok. So couldn’t she have just bought the one?  sure they were branded but it’s been in some other person’s mouth!

A coat, I agree many may have arguments either way but like why change all the 3 girls coats all at once when they are still good. They are not complaining and they can sure pass hand me downs too amongst themselves. Why buy three coats. Sure they are down but having some other kids names means any school looking at it know it’s a second hand coat unless we have to black out a big patch. Plus we couldn’t even wash it properly. (Down Need dry cleaning?).

So hence the Covid question. Would you let your kids wear another tween’s coat just with dry cleaning and that you have no idea how she was like or how clean the other family was? A $20 down coat + $35 spent on dry cleaning just doesn’t make sense to me. And to me it’s different from a normal wash.

Hence my question. Would you feel the need for back to school purchases just because we have to get things all “new” during these Covid times.

From responses, many are afraid of stuff from the thrift and clearly using used waterbottles.

I have no problem with a baking pan but a mixed bag of new and used pens and crayons from thrift. Like why? I would be open to cheap dollar tree or one good one from staples even!

Do I sound ridiculous because I am a dad?[/quote]

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