I need a good come back for second hand hating in laws

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I got some bits for the kids from the charity shop this week just to wear Christmas Day they also had a sock basket 10 for £1 mainly baby socks so just picked some up everything goes in the wash first now in laws are making fun of me for buying second hand and my poor kids mental health they are 3 and 5 for god sake!

jackets, skirts. shorts, dresses and tops are one thing but 2nd hand socks?
ewww, no thanks

socks and underwear should always be new

How ridiculous.

I wouldn't dignify it with a response.

If you're buying second hand to help the environment then you need to either reuse a carrier bag or have a bag for life. Then your snobby in laws won't have a clue where you got your stuff from.

My new years resolution OP, secondhand, recycled or ethically sourced ( clothes are not only coming through sweat shops but also through a forced labour in the cotton fields of Uighur Muslim minorities by China - the birth rate has fallen immensely because the women's fertility is being controlled with forced coils and hysterectomies which is ethnic cleansing and looks a lot like preparation for genocide - we wonder how people in the early part of last century could appease, will we stand by and keep buying clothes made through this slavery? When we know about it? 30% of the world's cotton originates from that area).

Don't invite their opinion. On anything.