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My mobile phone is a hand-me-down. My laptop is a hand-me-down. From dead people. I was bedridden, my friends had recently lost parents who left behind electronics, I didn't have a mobile phone or a laptop. Now I do! I also have patterns and fabric stash from one of those dead parents, not that I could do anything with them while I was stuck in bed.

Other friends, their house burned down. They lost most of their books. I have duplicate books, and books I don't want anymore. (Blasphemy, I know, but sometimes you know you're never reading a book again. And my friend needed the transphobe's books to reference while writing fix-it fic and didn't want to give the transphobe money, so those books are out of my house now.)

Best doll I ever owned (her name is Scratchbit) was a hand-me-down from a cousin. I still have her. Her head has a molded vinyl bun with my teethmarks in it from when I used to carry her around in my mouth when I was three. I have books my Mom grew up reading. I have dolls she played with.

I handed down my Breyer horses to my stepdaughter when she had her horse phase. If I knew anyone remotely shaped like me I'd hand down clothes I've sewn but didn't wear out before I got too fat for them. I don't want them to go to a landfill; I don't want to give them to strangers (but I will if the alternative is throwing them out).

Handing things down is great.

How do you feel about getting hand-me-downs (clothes or items that belonged to somebody else before being gifted to you) assuming the item is something you would enjoy anyways?

(The asker loves hand-me-downs, and thinks they’re a wonderful expression of love!)

I love it!

I like it

I’m okay with it

Im neutral on it/don’t care

It kind of bothers me

I dislike it

I hate it/it hurts my feelings

Other ?

Note in ask :)

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From there she goes to Silver's Gym, where she is harrassed by an old busybody and runs into her work friend Priya and the newly-graduated Bellum girl.

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Winter needs some Her Time, so she goes to Bigg City Beauty and gets a perm. The Enclave has a great shopping center and all, but its salon can't hold a candle to Bigg City Beauty.

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Every day is party day to Phil. Knapp correctly sizes up his ability to cook in large quantities, and wisely orders pizza. Phil spends most of the party in the hot tub with a hot young female friend from work and his best friend's daughter-in-law, behavior no one could possibly find remotely problematic.

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She even comes home with him! Unfortunately, when his eagerness for the date not to end prompted him to ask, he forgot a key fact of his home life: All parents are embarrassing, but his are uniquely mortifying.

Fortunately, Rhein likes birds.

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Really, really well! He persuades her to go steady with him, and she persuades him that he needs a less dorky haircut.

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All his self-imposed responsibilities tidied away, Knapp finally pursues his own agenda, borrowing his dad's car to take the lovely Rhein Land Hart out!

It's a bit chilly for patio dining at the shopping center, but things go very, very well anyhow!

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Thyme Prime

At the Thyme place, Winter and Phil kick back and enjoy themselves and accomplish their own agendas, while their younger son does the work the maid doesn't.

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Sometimes he wakes in the middle of the night, and the only thing that will take his mind off his loneliness is going out to take a look at the stars.

What he really needs to do, though, is Meet the Right Girl. And if that means going slumming, well, the Enclave is closer to the slums than anyone admits.

"Of course, as a cop I meet people all the time, but they're not always people you want to have conversations with, y'know?"

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"I hear you've been bothering Mary." "I'm not talking to you, old man!"

"You're the one who talked Candy out of marrying me, aren't you!" "Candy didn't need talking out of; she's got more sense than to hitch up with you!"

Sometimes it feels good and right to just throw your temper aside!

"Ow!" He totally threw that fight. No, really!

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He can always find a friendly game of billiards at the Billiard Room. It's more of a hangout for wealthy old guys than women, though.

Oh, plumbob, Mary's here! And Sandy? At least Sandy might have stopped off on a visit to Virginia. Does he dare ask Mary what brings her in?

"Oh, hi, Mary! Fancy meeting you here." "Hi, Junior. It's not as if Val keeps me locked up, you know." "I know, only - um - anything I say here's gonna be wrong, isn't it?"

Oh, hey, here's his new neighbor Ida Juana, all ready to hear everything about anyone she meets!

"So, anyway, I finally learned how to cook eggs." "I'm happy for you."

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Mann, Junior

Okay, so Junior's love life isn't where he wants it. His professional life is doing great - he made lieutenant, which gave him enough money to finish out the last two unfinished rooms. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and the water's fine!

"You're the kid who lives upstairs from Candy and Arden, right?" "That's right, Mr Arden's Dad." "Kind of a long way from home, aren't you?" "Dad wanted a day out."

Getting out of the house is the only way to meet a new love interest. Unfortunately, everyone in the park today seems to be married or male. But it's always nice to meet Penny.

Goldie's in town, too. She's always been so nice, even when he and Candy are fighting. And of course she can give him the low-down on how things are going in Widespot.

"Looks like it's time to go inside." "Why? We're dressed to get wet."

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Two promotions in one day means Party Time! At least to Carol it does. Ringo nails down a chess partner right away and lets her carry on.

"That is no way to treat other people's plumbing, young man! You must learn to respect material objects that don't belong to you."

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So she invites Jesse home and cooks dinner. Since deciding she wanted to be a Celebrity Chef she does most of the cooking, and Carol lets her.

Ringo also comes home with a promotion, so financial worries are already overcome. All the same he immediately goes through the financial news, on the lookout for more problems coming down the pike. He doesn't intend to be caught out twice!

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Busking at Palais de Danse didn't go well, but then she met a cute boy to flirt with, so things are looking up.

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Bellum Prime

Carol's week is off to a great start. Portia's, not so much. Even when she goes to the park she winds up playing stupid myshuno with kids and grownups who have nothing better to do than to play stupid myshuno in the park with kids.

She's not supposed to go anyplace that involves spending money because of the financial crisis, which no one has really explained to her and anyway it can't be that bad, can it? When Mom just now got a promotion?

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The outing breaks up in the wee hours, but Axel hangs around dancing till the even wee-er hours.

"Can you bear to be without me all day?" "Mmm…I'll try." "This means I'll have to be first in the bathroom." "Ugh! What if I promise to be really fast?"