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[ocelot]

I started weapons class today. It's from 9-10AM. It was maybe 50 degrees with 25-35mph winds. It wasn't the most pleasant hour of my life.

And once again I'm reminded how utterly uncoordinated I am.

Our society frustrates me. We're supposed to get all this baby stuff, which you use for a few months, or maybe a few years at best, and then you're supposed to hold onto it until you're sure you're done having kids, along with all their outgrown clothing for hand-me-downs and so forth.

I want to get rid of all my baby stuff. I want to pass it on to someone who needs it and will use it instead of having it sit around in storage for an indeterminate number of years. But I don't want to have to buy it when/if I do need it again.

I think perhaps I'll try to organize a clothing exchange.

Comments

[jtersesk.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who gave away her son's old clothes as he outgrew them. They made their way from friend to friend, and when she had her second (a girl), more clothes made their way back to her. She just keeps the cycle going. She said the more she gave away, the more stuff she got. Hehe.

But then, she lives in a community where people are constantly having kids.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

She said the more she gave away, the more stuff she got.

That's been my experience as well. It's just hard to trust that it will really work that way :)