Starting junior high, I bought my own stuff, or used my friends old stuff. Dad was gone, and the womb, a.k.a. my mother, only paid for the bare minimum. And it wasn't like she went to a decent store either, if she couldn't find it at the dollar store, I didn't get it from her. It wasn't that we were poor growing up. She bought herself some very nice clothes a new car ever few years. I th8nk the only thing I got from her of good quality was food. That's if she made enough for three...
But this is "what Made My Day". Never having to go school shopping for my own kids!! 😁