Mum Rants About Neighbours Child "Trashing" The Hand Me Down Clothes She Donated Them

Mum outraged that the second hand clothes she donated to a neighbour had been trashed.

Mummy blog Sanctimommy has shared a screenshot of a Facebook post where a woman has gone on an epic rant about her issues with the second hand clothing she donated.

She insists the clothes “looked perfect” when she handed them over to the neighbour who has 3 daughters.

She claims she was devastated when she saw the clothes were no longer in the same condition.

“I was almost in tears! They were completely trashed!”

“Made it perfectly through two of my kids and not even the first of hers,” she despaired in the post.

How dare she eat blue icecream and ruin a $100 outfit!

Comments on the post include:

“Who spends $100 on a single kids outfit? Just start burning your money.
2. Steam and press the clothes??? LOL!
3. Why help someone out when you can greedily hoard clothes your kids will never wear again? But hey, at least they’ll be clean and pristine!”

“This is why i match my children’s food to their outfits. So if they spill, I’m not worried about the stain. She should probably make the same recommendation to her neighbor so the horrid blue ice cream is only eaten in a matching top”

“Who has time to iron kids clothing?”

“If the clothes made it through TWO of her children before she gave them away, are they STILL worth $100, or is that just what she tells the IRS?”

” I dunno… a trashed $100 outfit in exchange for a few moments of silence while they suck down some sugar-laden bovine juice sounds pretty justified.”

Do you think this woman has any reason to be upset? After all she did donate them.

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39 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 25 Dec 2022
    3:20 pm
Make me wonder if her children ever had the freedom to eat an ice cream on a hot day and not worry about it running down the cone and creating memories of the day you all sat eatting ice cream and ended up a mess but how much fun that was.

- - ella12 said
  - 08 Jan 2019
    2:35 pm
Seriously, once it’s out of your hands, who cares? I wouldn’t give a toss.

- - Ellen said
  - 06 Jan 2019
    4:19 am
Once you give something away, it’s not yours anymore and not of your concern. She should let it go. Even when they have 1 day of pleasure out of it, it’s worthy !

- - mom340676 said
  - 03 Jan 2019
    8:27 pm
If you gift someone with anything,you shouldnt bother on how they use it.just remove your mind off it.

- - Blossom said
  - 09 Dec 2018
    11:31 pm
Maybe the neighbour didn’t want to be given hand-me-down clothes for her children.
Simple, don’t give her any more. Donate them to a recognised charity. Some share lists of what is needed and share the items where they are most needed. Some church school accept clothes and other items. I know of at least one in Adelaide which has lists supplied by charities and anything they don’t need to hand on to those on the lists

- - BellaB said
  - 07 Dec 2018
    12:59 am
I don’t like Constance Hall but I hope she finds a way to cope.

- - BellaB said
  - 07 Dec 2018
    12:57 am
She sounds a bit nutty to me.

- - mom324778 said
  - 01 Dec 2018
    9:38 am
Why give clothes away if your worried about what is going to happen to them. Any clothes i get given to me as seconds i use as rags.
If my kid wanted to play in the mud i would put her in clothes someone had handed down to me unless they are new than i don’t see an issue.

- - MrsA said
  - 27 Nov 2018
    3:51 pm
I’m guessing she is one of those people who don’t allow their children to have fun in case they ruin their clothes.

- - rachel1970 said
  - 25 Nov 2018
    5:52 pm
Seriously, if I donate goods I’m happy they are ‘trashed’. That way I know they are loved and being used well.

- - tessie said
  - 23 Nov 2018
    10:23 am
If you donate things you have no say in how they are treated. I donated things to my friend and when she passed away her daughter started selling them knowing they were free. Whether it bothered me or not, once donated or given away it is no longer yours so she needs to let it go. And who spends $100 on an outfit that can only be worn for a very short time before being outgrown.

- - mom112217 said
  - 22 Nov 2018
    5:05 pm
She did give them away so she can’t control what is going to happen to them!

- - mom109199 said
  - 22 Nov 2018
    2:15 pm
Wow, this woman should build a shrine to pay homage to her daughters’ old clothes….sheesh. She gave them away, she needs to get over it. It is the receivers choice how they use the gift. I really look after my family clothes too, but once I give them away, they are gone…no longer mine to care about. I think she needs some therapy or something….LOL.

- - littlehandsofmine said
  - 22 Nov 2018
    11:37 am
Gee, I am never going to accept second hand clothes from anymore.
- cherz replied
  
  22 Nov 2018 , 8:30 pm
  te he it will be at the back of our minds now.
- - rovermum said
  - 22 Nov 2018
    8:25 am
This is really funny. Once you hand over your clothes to someone else you have no control over what they do with them or how they wear them. I often hand over my son’s clothes and love seeing them re-appear on other boys in the same or a different way. However, I lose the attachment once they’re gone. Things I’m not happy to give to our friends, I donate to charity.