Christmas Jumper Day? Wasteful of resources?

[haba]

Am I alone in thinking these non-uniform days in schools are awful in terms of promoting disposable attitude to clothing?
Children grow so quickly, and aren't likely to fit a jumper more than one Christmas, meaning a new one every year, to ostensibly be worn for one day.
Is it going to be awful for DD if I refuse to get one for her, and will she be ridiculed for her parents' hippyish ideals?

[haba]

Badweek- "that family" or "that parent" , y'know, the one all the other parents or the staff are all talking about, because they have to be different...

[haba]

But, I shall definitely check out some charity shops on Saturday briefly.

[haba]

And Charis, I definitely don't do Christmas jumpers!
I wear a combination of black, navy, and grey every day.

[BikeRunSki]

Bad the Samaritan’s Purse shoe box Charity is a scheme whereby you fill a shoe box with toiletries, toys, sweets etc then pay about £3-4 “shipping” and then they get given to children in war zones etc around the world. On the face of it anyway. Lots of schools sign up to it. Scratch a little deeper and there’s a lot of religious propaganda. here

[InvisibleKittenAttack]

katymac - most foodbanks are christian organised. (Including the big one the Trussel Trust) however most while arranged through churches aren't used to try to recruit or preach.

[BackforGood]

I dunno KatyMac - how terrible that some folk who have got together to organise some help for people in need, might have a religion. .
Pesky do-gooders should be banned from offering support to anyone said no person in need, ever.
The Sikh community are out EVERY SINGLE NIGHT in our City feeding homeless people. The overwhelming majority of food backs have been set up by Christian People. Islamic Relief do fantastic work as do all the Charities that these darned religious people set up.
What an incredible weird thing to say.

[katymac]

Well the shoeboxes have a very dubious motive for a lot of organisations - I would rather have donated to a non-denominational food bank that risk any sort of 'requirements'

And I say that as someone who attends church fairly frequently

Providing help through a church you don't belong to affects your willingness to accept that help for some people (but obviously not all)

[Puppymouse]

Christmas jumpers have an excellent resale value on eBay. I bought DD's Next one second hand and it's going into its second Christmas this year as it still fits her.

[haba]

Bah, typed a long message that got eaten!
She didn't have any jumpers that still fit, only hoodies, so on back's suggestion I went to a few charity shops, and picked up a perfect specimen for the bargain price of £2.99
If it doesn't fit next year, it can go back from whence it came.

[specialsubject]

Shoeboxes are wasteful and that charity stuffs them with horrible fire and brimstone stuff. Kids only get the box if they sit through the lies.

Christmas jumper - buy at.charity shop, wear, re donate. Done.

[lljkk]

My kids are shrimps who manage to wear the same wardrobe Xmas jumpers several yrs in a row. DS started wearing his in October this year (when we walked up an icy mountain).

One yr, me, DH & DD all managed to share the same Xmas jumper. yabu ;-)