Do you have sewing skills, a sewing machine and some spare time? How about helping a struggling family by mending their children’s clothes? I have recently ‘adopted’ a family and have been patching items of school uniforms and jeans, have fixed the seams and hems of small dresses, given tights a new lease of life with some imaginative decoration, and all of this for little cost. For patching material, go to an Op shop and buy, for instance, a worn pair of jeans in the same colour as the one to be mended. Use the good bits for patching. If you are of the granny generation and cannot give this kind of practical help to offspring of your own, just look a bit further a-field. I wore hand-me-downs and mended clothes throughout my childhood and gratefully remember my mother’s knack of making them look special. Let’s use our old-fashioned skills again to help today’s recession children. The same goes for the grandpa generation and for DIY skills in general, of course!
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Jun