Best way to save money on clothes: let grandama buy them all! LOL!

Seriously, I have spent VERY little on my 4 kids. Of course, the youngest girl and youngest boy get the older twos handmedowns. My mother's church has a kids clothes sale twice a year (spring and fall) to raise money for their preschool and kindergarten. My mother can buy a good sized box full of clothes like nice dresses, jeans, and playclothes for all the kids for less than $100. My grandmother would do the same at her church (before she moved in with my mom). Plus between the two of them and my aunt, they are all total shopaholics and buy lots of good clothes (Talbots and Gap) for my kids. I know I could go without ever buying clothes for any of my kids (but I inheireted that shopaholic gene and will sometimes get Easter dresses at Dillards, or hit clearance stuff at Old Navy and Walmart).

It also helps that we are good friends with three families whose girls are the last in their own and extended families. I have 6 or 7 boxes of stuff for DD10 piled in the top of her closet that she can't wear yet. I mean some good pairs of Rockies and boots to go with them and Wrangler 20X shirts! Those are going to be GREAT for showing animals in 4-H and going to dances! Even a pair of Carhardt Coveralls to go working cows in the snow!

We have truely been blessed in the clothes dept.