miriam

I love those 5 R's!!! For Christmas this year my DGDs are getting gift cards and half off certificates to my favorite thrift store. My daughter says they will love it. OK... I had in mind maybe a craft store but we talked a bunch and it will give the girls control over what they buy, and they have to shop with grandma, not momma and not cost an arm and a leg besides they need clothes. I've taken jeans and old shirts then made them into skirts for the girls. We've cut down large skirts to small. They love that stuff. I kind of wish I could figure out how much money they come out ahead buying from the thrift store. How far can they stretch it? Last week I bought Miss L a pair of jeans that had blown out knees (50 cents) and sewed hearts up and down the leg and over the holes. She was very happy - custom clothes. Nothing fits them very long anyway. The oldest is very conservative in what she wears - she is 13 and goes for very classical looking clothing. She finds some pretty cool stuff at the thrift store. My daughter has always bought designer clothes at the thrift store. Once she was with the youth group kids at an amusement park. They wanted kids in shorts to do the water rides so she found a pair of scissors and whacked off her jeans. The other kids were horrified - good $50 jeans??? She didn't mention she only spent a buck or two... She just smiled and told them she would go buy another pair.