| I have three kids (two daughters an a son). The boy is the oldest and we would still "hand-me-down" until they became a bit older and didn't want to wear "boys clothes" anymore. With three kids, costs add up and so we would get the boy things the girls could wear as well (future planning). Say he needed new t-shirts and one had a large tractor on it, and the other was just a T-Shirt with nothing on it.. The problem as they age becomes "social norms". To this day, I continue to push both my daughters to try boys jeans. They constantly complain girls pants lack pockets, yet refuse to even try on boys jeans to see if they work? The other issue is some kids REFUSE hand-me-downs and too many parents take the easy road, and buy new clothes? Our youngest had hand-me-downs from both her older brother and older sister and simply didn't care that she was wearing "boys clothes". This really helped our budget. |