I'm so fed up of us having to buy DSS new clothes. DP picks up DSS every Friday at 5pm. The majority of the time DSS is in his school uniform which means on a Sunday we're sending him back in clothes we never see again. Once again we're down to our last pair of trousers and since DSS is only 5 and still sometimes has accidents in the day, we need to buy more. This is a regular occurrence and I'm sick of it! We're not skint so can afford it but that's completely beside the point. It's not just trousers either. She's "lost" 3 coats in his current size, all of which we've bought. Thankfully I found a cheapy one in the sale as I refuse to pay full price for a coat we'll never see again and he'll have stopped wearing soon as the weather warms up - and of course he'll have outgrown by next year. We're also having to buy tops and jumpers constantly. Shoes we just send him back in his school shoes - unless we know he needs new ones in which case we'll buy them and pack his school shoes in his bag. I'm so frustrated but I know that it's DSS that will suffer if we don't keep buying new clothes. Anyone else have experience of this? How did you deal with it?
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