I agree with you on the car thing, Popcornbird! I have nothing against used cars, but we have bought new and we keep it until it won't run anymore. With used cars, you never know what's gonna "go" when.

There are many second-hand places around here that sell kids clothes, and the quality is excellent - especially for the smaller sizes and the fancier outfits, and everything has been professionally cleaned, they just lack the tags. They even make sure things that come in that were never worn get a thorough cleaning.

Being the third kid in my own family, and having both an older sister and two older girl cousins, lots of my clothes were hand-me-downs and hand-me-down-downs, and I never suffered for it! There was, for most of my childhood, a bag of clothes in the attic labeled "Too small for Jody, too big for Karen" and each season we'd take it down, see what now fit me, and she'd add her outgrown stuff. It was kinda fun!