Exactly. It's so bizarre that anyone would criticize a family for being frugal.
My mom thinks it's shameful and a sign of how far down I have come that I buy my kids' clothes largely at consignment shops. What do I care, I buy nice things for less than a quarter of the retail price, sometimes still new with tags. The kids wear them out or stain them, we aren't out a fortune.
When I was pregnant with Amira a family from church that didn't know us well, but was friends with another family that did, asked through them, if we would be offended to receive some of their granddaughter's hand me downs. This granddaughter came from a wealthy family that bought all new, replaced every thing each season, etc. We said, please offend us. We clothed her for the first two years of her life largely on those clothes, most of which still had the tags on them. Between that huge sack, some hand me downs from another friend and the new stuff from the shower and my mom, all we had to buy was shoes.
Regards, Ranee
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