The hand me downs/celtic tiger spoilt kids

7sr2z3fely84g5

Was discussing this with a friend,in the old days growing up it was common to get the clothes that your older sibling/relative grew out of,then during the boom such thing would had you laughed at because mammy with her credit card or daddy the developer bought you a new set from the sports shop,has the hand me downs come back,are parents cutting back on the spending?,anyone amusing stories from the celtic spoilt kids era?.

kfallon

I was looking at old Liverpool shirts on a website selling for £100, I have these at home (obv 2nd hand), I could be making a fortune from them.

Sorry not hand me down stories but it just reminded me of this

barbarians

Will people ever learn that not everybody had a property developer father and yummy mummy mother during the Celtic Tiger. Most of us were better off during the Celtic Tiger but we weren't all exactly millionaires.

Whatever politicians and economists say we didn't all party.



And yes, hand me downs do exist I still take my brother's clothes and stuff.

spider guardian

A prudent parent will buy gender-neutral clothes, so the the next child will be able to wear the hand-me-downs be they male or female. Sure it's perfectly ok for girls to wear trousers these days

ChunkyLover_53

Had a t-shirt as a kid with a cartoon giraffe,monkey & crocodile on the front was a hand me down from my eldest brother. Donated to charity after I grew out of it.

I swear blind I saw an African kid wearing it in a news report years ago.

maglite

http://data.whicdn.com/images/5755144/tumblr_lawrbv1ef91qzv2wwo1_500_thumb.jpg?1293196824

Poor Craythur

I grew up in a dirt poor household and still hated hand-me-downs. Nothing to do with the Celtic Tiger, IMO.

Desire.

Stereotypical post is stereotypical.

snickerpuss

I was the eldest child in my immediate family and the first grandchild in my extended family. On both sides. Brand new clothes for me, suckas!

Gi joe!

I love how the op tars an entire generation with the same brush simply because they were raised during economic prosperity. Bravo.

Not all wealthy parents spoil their kids. And not every working class family knew how to control their spending during the 'old days'.

barbarians

barbarians wrote: »

Will people ever learn that not everybody had a property developer father and yummy mummy mother during the Celtic Tiger. Most of us were better off during the Celtic Tiger but we weren't all exactly millionaires.

Whatever politicians and economists say we didn't all party.



And yes, hand me downs do exist I still take my brother's clothes and stuff.

Exactly what I was going to say. I'm the eldest child but had hand-me-downs from other peoples' kids and charity shops. And my parents were quite well-off. There are plenty of us who never lived extravagantly. My life has changed very little since 2004.

W.Shakes-Beer

In the early nineties my Granny knit me crazy jumpers.

Damn good jumpers too!

The hipsters now would be jizzing at the sight of them.

Saila

Desire. wrote: »

Stereotypical post is stereotypical.

and smug

themadchef

snickerpuss wrote: »

I was the eldest child in my immediate family and the first grandchild in my extended family. On both sides. Brand new clothes for me, suckas!

Your user name... LOL
So fitting!


My mam still doesnt have a fecking credit!

Celtic tiger really didint impact the really rural areas the way it did the city (well, my rural area anyway). We always had zero employment, or next to it, disguised by hundreds on fantasy FAS courses. We still have next to zero employment.... Nothing changes.

Gi joe!

Gi joe! wrote: »

I love how the op tars an entire generation with the same brush simply because they were raised during economic prosperity. Bravo.

Not all wealthy parents spoil their kids. And not every working class family knew how to control their spending during the 'old days'.

I don't think the OP is necessarily tarring everyone with the same brush, it's just making a generalisation. I grew up in the 90's and I wore hand-me-downs. I'd say the stuff was 2nd hand most of the time, and 5th hand the rest of the time. I'm 20 now and still, any time my sister is throwing out anything she'll give it all to me first so I can pick out anything still wearable and keep it.

But at the same time I'm well aware that nearly none of my friends did/do this, and I've a friend completely dependent on welfare that's never seen in the same dress twice. My mam grew up poor (genuinely poor, not just a bit hard done by) so I've acquired a lot of her economising habits/tendencies naturally. Most people I know seem to be at a loss as to how to do things like that.

kfallon

themadchef wrote: »

Your user name... LOL
So fitting!


My mam still doesnt have a fecking credit!

Celtic tiger really didint impact the really rural areas the way it did the city (well, my rural area anyway). We always had zero employment, or next to it, disguised by hundreds on fantasy FAS courses. We still have next to zero employment.... Nothing changes.

If you're doing hand-me-downs can I have your hat so I can do the impression properly......."hurdy gurdy chicken"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-OFXUaMIv8

muselover

I was the oldest in my family, out of just me and my brother, but that didn't stop me getting hand-me-downs from cousins or even just neighbours. Some were absolutely god-awful that should have stayed in the 1980s.
There was a family we were related to, who totally took the bull by the horns when it came to the celtic tiger. The fabulous house, new car every year, sun holiday twice a year, the works. Whereas my family totally stayed grounded. My parents are pretty simple (I don't mean that in a stupid way) people, they're just not very savvy when it comes to investing etc, they just carried on the way they were and didn't accumulate any major debts from the boom years. A bit of renovating to the house, mainly done by my dad, was as far as it went. Anyway, this other family, the extravagant one, had kids considerably younger than us, so my mam used to give them bags of hand-me-downs from us. The mother just laughed and never used them.

Maybe it's just me, but does anyone else notice that most kids born after the year 2000 are bratty little ****s, with absolutely no appreciation for anything and think they can get away with being horribly cheeky to their elders?

I'm not saying children should be seen and not heard, but they need to have a little respect for others.

orourkeda

kfallon wrote: »

I was looking at old Liverpool shirts on a website selling for £100, I have these at home (obv 2nd hand), I could be making a fortune from them.

Sorry not hand me down stories but it just reminded me of this

What kind of silly bollocks would spend £100 on a liverpool shirt.

Superbus

I was just such a 'Celtic Tiger kid'. An only child aswell, but I always got the hand-me-downs of my slightly older cousin.

I'm dreading the possibility that my entire generation will have to put up with this stigma for our entire lives. It's simply untrue.

bigneacy

W.Shakes-Beer wrote: »

In the early nineties my Granny knit me crazy jumpers.

Damn good jumpers too!

The hipsters now would be jizzing at the sight of them.

My girlfriends granny knitted(sewed?/crocheted?) her and her 3 sisters matching velour & nylon tracksuits.

Thank fook my granny didn't knit!

tommyboy2222

And I was the eldest of my siblings.

iamwhoiam

Superbus wrote: »

I was just such a 'Celtic Tiger kid'. An only child aswell, but I always got the hand-me-downs of my slightly older cousin.

I'm dreading the possibility that my entire generation will have to put up with this stigma for our entire lives. It's simply untrue.

I agree , I know many who passed on clothes during good times and many who gladly used them
But saying that I was here during the last recession and it kills me to throw out anything ,At the minute we have a fairly new , in good nick , clean and used toilet which I am going to have to throw out now as no one will take it .In the 80's we would have a queue for it !

Luxie

tommyboy2222 wrote: »

Growing up in the 80's I regularly got hand me downs.

However I was the eldest of my siblings.

Back then I used receive a parcel of stuff from family in England. Used get quite excited about getting stuff from LONDON even if they were probably hideously out of date.

Steodonn

Oldest male Child in my extended family. Parents still managed to find some second hand clothes :rolleyes:

double GG

How come people assume everyone was filthy rich during the 'The Boom'.

Feck all people were rich, all of it was borrowed money for god sake, all those 'rich' people now have mortgages of double the value of their house.

Hand me downs, what's wrong with them?

RMD

Ah yet another wonderful stereotype about the middle class during the Celtic Tiger. I grew up in I suppose what could be called a "upper-middle class" home, parents both earned a fair bit of money and life was comfortable. I wasn't spoilt, if I needed something it was paid for, but if I wanted something I had to work my ass off for it. The laptop I write this message on right now is the result of working 35 hour weeks during the summer, my Xbox downstairs and clothes in my wardrobe are the result of the same.

Not every kid who grew up in a "wealthy" household had money thrown at them like it grew on trees, some actually had a normal enough life short of having to worry about finances, a thing kids generally wouldn't consider no matter what household they grew up in.

Namlub

Ah memories, my dad was a developer/banker/politician during the celtic tiger years so I was the only person in the village able to afford clothes. Now times have changed and I've reverted to wearing a potato sack.

Aoifey!

I guess by my age I could be considered a "celtic tiger kid", but I have always had hand me downs, and just yesterday I got a bag of old clothes from my aunt.

Not everyone was effected by the Celtic Tiger, I know my family certainly wasn't. The biggest change we saw was an increase in prices.

Blobby George

orourkeda wrote: »

What kind of silly bollocks would spend £100 on a liverpool shirt.

A scouse bollocks.

saintsaltynuts

I always used to nick me little brothers clothes.I used to call them hand me ups.He's a little ****.

ejmaztec

I feel sorry for the skinny kids whose older siblings were morbidly obese. They must have felt like they were camping when they wore the big jumper.

Bucklesman

So, I'm gonna join the crowd of Celtic Tiger cubs in this thread who got hand-me-downs as well if that's okay. I'm the eldest in my family, so it was always from cousins and neighbours. I got a bag of old stuff off a family friend just before Christmas and wore them with pride.

WHAT OF YOUR ARGUMENT NOW OP? :pac:

Seriously, we're not all spoilt just because there was a property bubble when we were growing up. Every generation since the year dot had families who spoiled their kids and families that did not. I'm sick of hearing I was spoiled and mollycoddled when I wasn't.

Karona

I am the youngest in my family and i always got hand me downs, still do as a matter of fact and i never seen anything wrong with it.

My friend still gives me a bag of clothes that she doesnt want, most of it has
only been worn a couple of times and i always find a few gems in it.

And anything we dont want we pass down to someone else.

Its a good way of life.

kylith

I drew the line at wearing my brothers' clothes (I'm a girl) when I was younger but every year we'd get a big bag of hand-me-downs from various cousins. Even my posh nieces and nephews get hand-me-downs, and pass clothes on too. It's only sensible for parents to do so, everything gets shared around; cots, buggies, clothes and toys.

phasers

My brothers and I are all close in age so they all shared their clothes and I robbed their cool tshirts and jumpers. Still do actually, I got an awesome Dr. Who tshirt from my Brother's drawer last week. my sister is a good bit older than us so I just 'borrow' her jewellery and handbags instead.

Personally speaking I didn't see a penny from the Celtic Tiger though, my family have always been dirt poor

mattjack

Ive always worn hand me downs......even clothes belonging to my father....from his military service...I have to say I look great growing up in Finglas, dressed as a Cossack general....

CD.

I am the youngest in my family, but my only other sibling is my sister.

there arn't actually a lot of male cousins, i am the second oldest of male cousins out of 5 (on both sides) there is probably a big age gap, 4 years each for the first 3, then maybe 8 or so years between us and the other two. so the gap can be too big to pass down clothes some times.

I got clothes from my older cousin and have given clothes to my younger cousins. got some really awesome hoodies that, though i have stopped using them, my sister has taken.

in saying that though, i really wear clothes out. as long as there are no holes in them i'll still wear them.
same with runners. had the same pair for maybe 3 years before i got rid of them and got a new pair. even at that the old pair were perfectly fine to continue wearing. But, in saying that, i really, really, really hate shopping for runners.