If you have children, the “hand-me-down” chain can result in tons of free clothes and toys for your children. There are some items that don’t do well as hand-me-downs, especially for infants. There’s ...

It started with a stash of Lego bricks handed down by the next door neighbours without any building instructions. Now 19-year ...

Anyone with an older brother or sister might gripe about the hand-me-downs passed on to them when they were growing up, but not Lisa Ingall’s younger stepsister, Casey. It’s hard to gripe about a hand ...

KIRK MCINNIS died too early and too hard. Scott Wood and I cut cattail stalks for his casket spray, swatting mosquitoes in the late-summer heat, and couldn’t believe he was gone—Kirk with his ...

As we move through a world of disposable things, it's easy to forget previous generations kept nearly everything. Furniture was made to last. Pieces of crystal or china were investments passed down ...

I did not face wearing clothes that had been outgrown by an older brother. Because I had three older sisters and no older brothers, this was not a childhood experience for me. However, I experienced ...

As recently as 2019, trend followers were noting that younger generations weren’t interested in the hand-me-down furniture their boomer parents were trying to unload on them. Millennial and Gen X ...