Reply #145: This is not about the frugality of shopping thrift. [View All]

[RaleighNCDUer]

It is about the state mandate forcing fosters to shop thrift. The only way this is enforceable is if there is a clothing allowance to foster parents from the state, and the state refusing to re-imburse for clothing UNLESS shown a receipt from a thrift store.

I wonder - are band uniforms, cheerleader outfits, etc., covered by that clothing allowance? What about dance shoes, track shoes? Prom dresses? Going to find those things at Salvation Army?

Not to mention that fosters are already 'outsiders'. While an old fart like me can get away with wearing the same shit I did ten years ago, if a kid shows up at school in 2012 wearing 2005 clothes, s/he will be instantly catagorized - the last time a HS sophomore wore that, the current wearer was in grade school. I might not notice, and very possibly the foster parents might not notice, but the kids do. It's announcing to the world "I am a second class citizen".