I think I have a deal with a friend of a friend about getting her DCs' old uniform at the end of term but I'm not sure if she wants money or how to say thank you otherwise.... Help!
My DCs are starting a new school, hers are leaving because they are moving abroad and I am going to collect whatever it is that she wants to give me. The rest I will buy new. So far so good.
It is a private school so it is not cheap uniform and they require the most ridiculous amounts of all sorts of uniform. I left a message with her offering to buy the uniforms; she left a message with DH that she would be happy to "pass it on"; and then she and I spoke about exactly what she had and when to collect it and that she wanted to hang onto the blazers. DH thinks she said she didn't want cash and I failed to mention it when we talked about jumpers and sports shorts and swimming trunks.
In a final complicating twist, I am collecting the uniform on the evening of the end of term and the family move abroad the next day. The mum said she would wash it all before I came round and I told her not to! I thought she would have plenty to do.
My plan
- to go with my cheque book and offer to pay
- to bring some currency for her new country (I think we have some as DH goes there on business sometimes) and see if I can foist that on her instead of a cheque
- to bring presents for her DCs suitable for journeys or small and easy to carry (I am thinking travel snakes and ladders, and head torches)
Has anyone got any bright ideas?
She really is being very kind, so I would like to thank her somehow if she won't take money. If they were not moving so soon I could take a bottle of wine or send flowers as a thank you. I am sure if I was moving the day after the end of term handing uniform to a stranger would be the last thing I would want to do.