I'm very thankful for the clothing shop near us ran by friends of ours (we met them very early on with our walk with the Mennonites) You can buy a dress for around 4$ or so. Downside is of course they might fit more like bags, be too short for my wife's tastes, have too short of sleeves (for our church) or choke my wife's neckWade wrote:Wade wrote: I forgot to state that fitting into culture takes money. So when one can't keep up with Miller's, it isn't going to work. Mennonite culture is expensive! We have never been able to fit into that...
Every now and then she finds a decent keeper that lasts. Most of the fabric seems durable enough to last through more than one person's likes.
Strangely enough, I got my plain suit from an ex-Amish for free.
All in all to say our cost, other than my son's clothing has been gas. There have been small moments like for example, our anniversary was a day or two ago and shortly before that someone had offered me a temp job that gave us enough money for a nice anniversary meal. It seems like God does care about the small things, its just hard thinking about my personal struggles in that perspective.
A kind gift we were given was our first custom made dress for all my girls+wife when my son died. Someone also was kind enough to hand make me a nice shirt too.