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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 356374" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>PS - difficult child 1 discovered brand name clothing and fashion at the rope old age of 7. Money, so much, wasn't the issue at that point 'cause we just plain couldn't afford the brand names unless it came from Goodwill or garage sales...But the "fashion"??? Oh yeah...THAT was an issue. Because he layered. And layered. And layered. It was not uncommon for him to wear 8-10 articles of clothing to school a day. In layers. </p><p> </p><p>And he didn't have tons of clothes, so it created a lot of repeated laundry for me to keep him in clothing. So at the ripe old age of 8, he had a choice. Wear normal amounts of clothing, or wash it yourself. He chose wash it yourself. And he did the bulk of his own laundry from then on.</p><p> </p><p>When he got a little older, and name brand stuff NEW became an issue, I made a list of clothes he <em>needed</em> and then took him to JC Penney's, which we both agreed was a good "middle of the road" store - not Wally World, but also not The Buckle. We priced Levi's jeans, and decent shirts, etc. So if he needed 4 pairs of jeans for school, and Levi's were $30 a pair, I handed him $120. He could buy 4 pairs of Levi's at Penneys, or 4 pairs of Faded Glory jeans at Walmart and have leftover money, or a pair and a half of "Buckle" jeans. I didn't care. His choice. And one year, he did buy Buckle jeans. And he washed them. EVERY day. And they fell apart. And he had to spend birthday money to buy more jeans. </p><p> </p><p>You maybe could do something similar with the groceries. Here's your "budget"...how you gonna spend it? Cause that year that difficult child had one pair of jeans was a lesson learned for him...He found new ways to get his "high fashion". lol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shari, post: 356374, member: 1848"] PS - difficult child 1 discovered brand name clothing and fashion at the rope old age of 7. Money, so much, wasn't the issue at that point 'cause we just plain couldn't afford the brand names unless it came from Goodwill or garage sales...But the "fashion"??? Oh yeah...THAT was an issue. Because he layered. And layered. And layered. It was not uncommon for him to wear 8-10 articles of clothing to school a day. In layers. And he didn't have tons of clothes, so it created a lot of repeated laundry for me to keep him in clothing. So at the ripe old age of 8, he had a choice. Wear normal amounts of clothing, or wash it yourself. He chose wash it yourself. And he did the bulk of his own laundry from then on. When he got a little older, and name brand stuff NEW became an issue, I made a list of clothes he [I]needed[/I] and then took him to JC Penney's, which we both agreed was a good "middle of the road" store - not Wally World, but also not The Buckle. We priced Levi's jeans, and decent shirts, etc. So if he needed 4 pairs of jeans for school, and Levi's were $30 a pair, I handed him $120. He could buy 4 pairs of Levi's at Penneys, or 4 pairs of Faded Glory jeans at Walmart and have leftover money, or a pair and a half of "Buckle" jeans. I didn't care. His choice. And one year, he did buy Buckle jeans. And he washed them. EVERY day. And they fell apart. And he had to spend birthday money to buy more jeans. You maybe could do something similar with the groceries. Here's your "budget"...how you gonna spend it? Cause that year that difficult child had one pair of jeans was a lesson learned for him...He found new ways to get his "high fashion". lol [/QUOTE]
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