I'm not suggesting that they chuck old clothes away (I'm sure there are plenty of people they could have been donated to), nor that hand-me-downs are bad things to have - I too had loads from my elder cousins. I just don't think it's unreasonable for the girls to want new, or to think that some of the money from the Last Ditch could have been spent on a nice gesture for all the girls - witness how happy the twins were the year after when they got new party dresses for Christmas. Was that a waste of money?
For God's sake, I'm not bagging on hand-me-downs - surely I've made that clear by now. Just saying I think it would have been nice for the girls to get something posh and new out of the financial "windfall".
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Date: 2005-08-31 11:29 am (UTC)I'm not suggesting that they chuck old clothes away (I'm sure there are plenty of people they could have been donated to), nor that hand-me-downs are bad things to have - I too had loads from my elder cousins. I just don't think it's unreasonable for the girls to want new, or to think that some of the money from the Last Ditch could have been spent on a nice gesture for all the girls - witness how happy the twins were the year after when they got new party dresses for Christmas. Was that a waste of money?
For God's sake, I'm not bagging on hand-me-downs - surely I've made that clear by now. Just saying I think it would have been nice for the girls to get something posh and new out of the financial "windfall".