Can we talk for a moment about shopping behavior? I think my mother didn’t really train me properly.

As we have discussed before, I was a fat kid. Shopping wasn’t fun. I still remember the humiliation of my mom having to buy jeans in the Husky Boys department at Kmart. The only thing worse then being fat was being fat and poor. The clothing choices were limited at best.

We didn’t go store to store looking for the right fit. We didn’t have “online shopping”. And since I was so hard to fit, it’s a wonder we found anything at all. I certainly didn’t look my best. I wonder if I shouldn’t be teaching my kids “to buy smart” and only buy things that fit well and look really awesome… vs. buying for convenience, time savings, price point etc? I mean… how many times do we look in our own closet and think: I’d so much rather have 5 really GOOD outfits then a closet full of all this mediocre crap?

So now as an adult, and particularly a newly normal sized adult, I have to readjust my shopping behavior. I’m learning things. Like that to truly understand what looks good you have to try EVERYTHING on. Everything. Don’t just go buy it cause you know the size and think it will fit. Cause it might look like crap. And you might find something spectacular if you just try it on. So what…I’m supposed to do this with my kids too?

I still, out of habit, do not particularly find myself at the malls very often. I think because I am frugal I simply avoid stores. If I’m not there, I don’t spend money. But when I do go, and I shop, I enjoy it. And because I don’t go, my kids don’t get clothing on a regular basis. I tend to “buy all at once”. And truthfully, I like the online shopping aspect of everything. I do Mega-orders. My laziness probably wins out even over my frugality. Put in a big order at Lands End and Hanna Anderson… and be done with it.

So thanks for bearing with me through all this… What I want to know is how often you buy clothes for your kids? How many stores do you go to? How exactly do you shop and how often for clothing? Do you buy by the outfit? Picking out only the things that look really awesome and buying a little something every month or so? Do you buy by the season? Spending a wad of dough before school starts and in the spring? If you have multiple kids, do you take each of them individually? You’d HAVE TO right? How do you shop?

Seriously would like comments on this one. Please tell me about your shopping habits for kids clothing. Teach me dear community!

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