I hate mending including my own. I just pretend I didn't hear them. Sometimes I give them the name of the alteration lady I use. My girls sew and they can take care of their own family. My husband usually takes his alterations in to the store because he knows by the time I get motivated to do the mending he will have forgot he owned it. I am a petite and I have been altering my clothes all my life or making from scratch (which I Prefer)so mending and sewing for someone else doesn't even get to last place.