"Tiger Lily" > wrote in message
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> On 12/21/2011 8:28 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> She then started with the dresser and said pretty much everything in
>> there
>> seemed to be from the third grade. Now we do go through the room about
>> yearly and clean out all of the too small clothes. But I haven't had to
>> do
>> that much in the past few years because she has pretty much been the same
>> size. I do go through and urge her to get rid of anything she no longer
>> wants. In terms of clothes that is.
>>
>> So... Instead of going to the movies like she wanted to do tomorrow, we
>> are
>> going to Value Village to get rid of a lot of stuff.
>
>
> depending on the size of the clothes......... send them to the children's
> or 'regular' hospital
>
> victims of trauma usually have their clothes cut off of them
>
> kinda hard to go home without clothes
>
> depending on the trauma, there might not BE clothes 'at home'

I don't think hospitals here do that. When they had to cut Angela's clothes
off at the Children's hospital in Oakland, she was sent home in her diaper.
And when my dad needed clean clothes when he was in the hospital recently
they had nothing for him. Where would they even store such things? They
would need a pretty big room for that.

Value Village is a charity that I believe in. They are good people. The
proceeds from what they sell goes to help the blind. And they sell things
for very good prices. My friend used to work for them and she has nothing
unkind to say about them. They do come to the house to pick things up. I
usually have at least a couple of things for them then. In fact I did just
donate a small amount on the 14th of last month. It's just that Angela has
some up with 2 big garbage bags full of clothing, mainly nightgowns that are
too small for her now. There is a Land's End gown that she never wore at
all. That was my fault because it has two buttons on it. I should have
known better. She won't wear buttons. But then knowing how I buy things,
it was a greatly reduced clearance item and perhaps the buttons weren't
highly visible in the picture. I did that this past Spring with a couple of
tops that I got for her. Thankfully she and my mom wear the same size now
and my mom loved the tops. She wears them frequently in warmer weather.