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"hand-me-down" Definitions
  1. no longer wanted by the original owner

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Like a pair of hand-me-down jeans, hand-me-down unions often just don't fit the current wearer quite right.
Cobb used the analogy of whites giving hand-me-down clothes to blacks to illustrate how they also gave blacks hand-me-down hospitals.
It's just … it was a hand-me-down of some kind.
Everything I got was a hand-me-down, like clothes and fragrance.
Really, there's no better accessory than such a meaningful hand-me-down.
My sisters and I wore hand-me-down clothes donated by our church.
Deng has his own small CRT, a hand-me-down from his mother.
Plus, it's another excuse to use Grandma's hand-me-down cast-iron skillet.
His primary video camera is a hand-me-down iPhone 5 from 2012.
Several Pacific nations ban cross-dressing (another hand-me-down from prudish Victorians).
European skaters in this era sometimes wore hand-me-down dresses, if necessary.
A hand-me-down wooden chest lead to a natural curation of important objects.
Should we get her a new jacket, a lesser jacket, a hand-me-down?
As for Boyce, she is overwhelmed with gratitude for her hand-me-down kidney.
The furniture is of the hand-me-down variety, but with some nice history.
Instead, I became adept at the hand-me-down method of procuring Apple's handsets.
Hand-me-down iPhones can also come from strangers, not just friends and family.
She and her friends exchange tips on where to secure hand-me-down clothes.
P.S.: When Jenny's done with those diamonds, I'm totally cool with a hand-me-down.
LONDON — Rarely has a sale of a grandmother's hand-me-down jewelry gotten such attention.
Mr. Lamo first became interested in computers after receiving a hand-me-down Commodore 64.
In struggling communities, residents have formed food banks while distributing hand-me-down school uniforms.
Right from the opening line's inclusion of two objects we rarely use any more — "hand me down my walking cane, hand me down my hat" — the lyrics hearken back to another time, a pre-internet age when we were more easily and joyously amused.
Gone are the days of flickering fluorescent light bulbs, blank walls and hand-me-down toys.
"So she gave me her hand-me-down award, and I'm fine with that," Khloé joked.
"Many people have over half of their net worth in one hand-me-down," Keebler said.
The exception to the hand-me-down rule are items that pose safety or sanitary concerns.
Oliver and his classmates modified tattered, hand-me-down uniforms so that they became fashionable looks.
Nick Murray just was given a won't-start-hand-me-down Ford he's trying to fix up.
Clarissa's daughter genuinely exited to receive her mother's hand-me-down clothes because they're totally cool again?
As a result, children are left with hand-me-down adult chemotherapies, which ravage their developing organs.
Adrián Lamo, who first became interested in computers after receiving a hand-me-down Commodore 64, was 37.
My car was a gift from my parents, and my wife had a hand-me-down Dodge Stratus.
My Calphalon set was a hand-me-down and it's been going strong for at least 10 years.
I feel like youngest children always get a little hand-me-down wisdom inherited from their older siblings.
Oversized amps and hand-me-down drum sets were usurped by Wi-Fi, laptops, and home-recording software.
It seems each textile offcut or hand-me-down has been choreographed into its place in the composition.
The navy blue cardigan Charlotte is wearing in Louis' portrait is a hand-me-down from her big brother.
There's nothing like a diamond hand-me-down — especially when the one doing the handing down is Queen Elizabeth.
The one hand-me-down that Honor gets from Huawei that I very much enjoy is the gesture interface.
This is the first lower-priced iPhone that doesn't feel like a hand-me down device, and that's important.
"My first cap was in 1998 against Estonia when we still wore men's hand-me-down strips," Jones told Reuters.
My grandmother's recipe was a hand-me-down from her mother (and possibly her mother before that—no one's sure).
The other hand-me-down feature is IPX8 water resistance that allows you to read your book in a pool.
Professional snowboarders racing on hand-me-down skis do not win gold medals in ski events at the Winter Olympics.
Erica Anderson wore her mother&aposs hand-me-down wedding dress from the &apos60s to her own wedding in 2015.
Today, many young children use mom or dad's hand-me-down Android smartphone as their gaming device, or an Android tablet.
He paired the suits with used button-downs and hand-me-down ties and wore them all the time, he says.
Nobody gives you hand-me-down socks, because by the time a baby has outgrown hers she has also lost them.
Judge John Hodgman Katelynn writes: I recently received some hand-me-down pants from my grandmother, mostly thin-fabric high waters.
I put on an old black pair of hand me down sneakers from my sister and blast Lorde for the walk.
We are the ones gifted with hand-me-down debt and zero access to the tools to fix a broken economy.
Weasley with an updated haircut; Albus Severus is wearing hand-me-down robes that keep his house assignment a secret for now.
"More parents are giving their kids their old smartphone as a hand me down, and I recommend incremental usage," she told CNBC.
He reflected on how his own school got only hand-me-down textbooks that were no longer good enough for white children.
Sensitive to her mother's financial situation, she adorned her hand-me-down wardrobe with colorful finds from the Salvation Army and Goodwill.
When Schwab realized Bifituu had virtually no baby gear in her one-bedroom apartment, she found them hand-me-down furnishings and clothes.
They sent my brother a bunch of stuff and we still hand-me-down stuff so I stole it from him, I think.
NASA says it only has one medium-sized space shirt, and it's going to Koch ... although it's kind of a hand-me-down.
We had vague plans to put the baby in a box for sleeping, and friends had volunteered to donate hand-me-down clothes.
And now those hand-me-down Levi's will be extra-special to his son, because they've got Timberlake's designs all over them — literally.
FROM PEN: What's Next for Princess Charlotte And after 30 years, the adorable royal hand-me-down is still in pretty good shape!
In my family of five, the kids all have hand-me-down iPhones and Find My Friends has been incredibly useful, logistically speaking.
If Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks are America's parents, we should all be clearing space for the best hand-me-down furniture ever.
You don't need to add to the mix a million mismatched towels, hand-me-down dishes, and clothes you haven't worn in years.
Mistress Alana, the lady of the manor, lustily wields her mother's hand-me-down dildo to penetrate Phillip, her violin-playing house slave.
I used to be ashamed of my hand-me-down, stitched-together Spanish, but I'm learning (as Freud advises) to embrace my symptom.
"I'm sad to see her go," Stacey Olcott, Emma's mother, said last month before loading an SUV with hand-me-down furniture. Mrs.
The Philharmonic's commission for "Evening Land" became something of a hand-me-down from another Danish composer, Per Norgard, Mr. Sorensen's former teacher.
When I was gifted my first pair of maternity leggings, it was a hand-me-down from one of my most well-styled friends.
But there was also the chance to learn English, pick up some trendy, hand-me-down sneakers and leave the violence of Mexico behind.
I'd had Ikea particle board bookshelves and hand-me-down-from-friends bookshelves and dumpster-dive bookshelves and back-of-the-thrift store bookshelves.
They're the kinds of places you just know are filled with hand-me-down furniture or items picked up at a local thrift store.
Randomly getting inspired to clean the entire house sounds productive — until your hand-me-down vacuum craps out and everything comes to a standstill.
Many don't want to buy the hand-me-down, older-generation iPhone, but plenty of people will be intrigued by a cheaper and smaller iPhone.
Lambert posted pictures of the hand-me-down made of real — not faux — fur, which some found hypocritical given Lambert's involvement with animal rescue efforts.
As was expected, Prince Louis's christening on Monday was packed with royal tradition, from his hand-me-down gown to the 7-year-old cake.
But in reality, it more often looks like your older brother's hand-me-down — a deflated cotton parachute you need to be cut out of.
But wearing tight shoes, hand-me-down shoes or narrow or pointy shoes encourages development of the condition, especially if there is a genetic predisposition.
When I met my husband in 2004, he had some hand-me-down furniture, a closet full of clothes, and $2,000 in credit card debt.
Wick grew up in Connecticut, where he cultivated an early resourcefulness, repairing broken hand-me-down toys from his siblings and building skateboards for neighborhood children.
Puffy jackets that haven't seen the light of day in years, an unused hand-me-down Crock-Pot, and extra fluffy scarves, all just wasting space.
When I was a kid, I used to stare at the Apple logo on my sister's hand-me-down Macintosh LCII and dream about the future.
Maybe you're still eating off hand-me-down dishes, lounging on that infamous futon from college, or working at a flimsy desk from you know where.
It's a useful reminder that, in the grand scheme of things, dust mites and hand-me-down skin cells are maybe the least of our worries.
We were talking in my grandma's hand-me-down Civic, so I realized I knew the answer already, but I had to point-blank ask him.
This isn't your mother's hand-me-down set from the '270s (but it should be your mother's set, because you should totally gift it to her).
That feeling that we're talking about, with the wardrobe, with this jacket that she wears, feeling like it's a hand-me-down from somebody along the way.
They achieved laudable academic successes in spite of skimpy school budgets, rundown buildings and hand-me-down textbooks, often in classrooms crowded with 40 to 50 students.
At one point, Markle drove a "beat-up, hand-me-down — but awesome — Ford Explorer" from audition to audition, she told Entertainment Tonight in a 2017 interview.
Meanwhile, the Straussians were honing their "political catechism" and imparting their own hand-me-down message of Weimar-inflected Kulturpessimismus , complete with images of brown-shirted hordes.
I shower (not a hair wash day, yay!), do my make-up, and throw on a geometric sheath dress that's a hand-me-down from my MIL.
A good leader does his own thinking based on the real facts, not on myths and hand-me-down ideas from authority figures who are often wrong.
One common option for parents is to get a lower-priced smartphone or older model phone — maybe a hand-me-down from the parent when they upgrade.
They shared a pull-out couch in a small $250-a-month apartment and she wore hand-me-down tennis clothes from other girls at the academy.
One interesting thing: The Boeing 757 that Trump used for travel during his presidential campaign was a hand-me-down from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Bloomberg noted.
Remember different When I was a kid, I used to stare at the Apple logo on my sister's hand-me-down Macintosh LCII and dream about the future.
It became clear that neither I nor most of my female friends actually enjoyed male strippers — it felt to us like a hand-me-down fantasy from men.
But if they have a hand-me-down, four-year-old iPhone or Android device, it may be a good time to get a speedier, more capable phone.
For most of my early twenties, I slept on a mattress that was at least two decades old, a queen-sized hand-me-down from my childhood home.
"Custom framing can take any hand-me-down or thrift-store find from trash to treasure," said Kimberly Winthrop, a senior designer at Laurel & Wolf, who recommends Framebridge.
Not every old book fit their value system, Ms. Scotten said — or the muted, modernist color scheme that matched the room's Craigslist crib and hand-me-down rug.
But if you're just a big softie who can't say no, consider giving her a hand-me-down set, or at least wait until November to buy one.
Federal, state, local or public-sector employees  are too often represented by hand-me-down labor unions that current workers inherited from government employees of a bygone era.
You have children who play games on a hand-me-down device, but you're tired of having to pay for new gold coins so they can keep playing.
Now's the perfect time to replace a hand-me-down vacuum, upgrade your rusty fan, or try out that premium hairdryer you've been wish-listing all year long.
For my first winter of riding to work, I used a hand-me-down mountain bike with two studded tires, for better grip on the snow and ice.
But quality kitchen accessories are not cheap, so most home cooks make do with the hand-me-down or knockoff items that will inevitably ruin a meal or two.
I updated my two-year-old iPhone 6 Plus to iOS 10 last night and today I'll be updating my son's four-year-old hand-me-down iPhone 5.
If your computer is a hand-me-down, it might have the name of the previous owner on it and you probably want to change it to your name.
The Mikimoto pen is a memento I snagged while working at Glamour; it was a hand-me-down from my boss who was the accessories director at the time.
If you're still struggling to saw your way through a tomato with a hand-me-down blade, you need to level up to a set of real kitchen knives.
You might not have hit your 10-minute goal, but your body still smells worse than the hand-me-down sweatpants you had to borrow from the lost and found.
According to his tweet, the upcoming reborn Fisker EV will have wild butterfly doors — you know, the type of doors kids will put on their hand-me-down Honda Accords.
This would make sense for families with an existing book collection – because their child is older, an avid reader, or because they have hand-me-down books from other children.
A stark contrast from the vibrant neon visuals of the '70s and '80s, Nirvana's hand-me-down shirts and dirty Converse went on to define the fashion of the '90s.
Top-tier players typically train on second-rate fields at best, rely on the hand-me-down uniforms of men, and have to foot the bill when they get injured.
It will put an end to hand-me-down unions and ensure that our public-sector workers have the voice and the choice they deserve in selecting their own unions.
While the ankle-length hem recalls the Puritanical practicality of butter-churning gowns or hand-me-down prom dresses that didn't quite fit, it actually makes sense for two main reasons.
A self-described "class clown," the young Thibodeau was in truth a lonely kid who was teased for being overweight and poured his angst into a hand-me-down drum set.
For most of us it's a concert T-shirt, a jacket from an ex, or a hand-me-down from your mom's closet she may or may not know that you have.
"Harry intends his marriage to be quite different and his ring for Meghan is going to be the start of a family collection of jewelry as opposed to a hand-me-down." 
Or worse, like getting a hand-me-down copy of Where's Waldo and when you open the book, you find that your older cousin has already circled the Waldos in red marker.
While introducing her newborn son to the world — and revealing she and Kanye West have named him Psalm — the new mom of four also proved she loves a good hand-me-down.
If you've got a slim wrist expect to look like you're wearing a parental figure's hand me down when this watch is available later this year (no word yet on pricing).[Samsung]
A growing trend among parents is to give young children their own hand-me-down smartphone or tablet, which may only connect to wifi for games, apps and educational purposes, Radesky said.
" If you want a home that's warm, cozy and inviting, he said, a good rule of thumb is to "always have at least 25 percent used, vintage or hand-me-down furniture.
A whole industry that specializes in customizing Ikea pieces has sprung up over the past few years, meaning you can easily cover your stand-alone closets or reupholster that hand-me-down couch.
Her first non-hand-me-down came in the form of a white, crew-neck, short-sleeved, all-cotton dress with patchwork and a poofy skirt (the occasion: her second-grade piano recital).
So, in the name of the new year, we're tossing out our hand-me-down gym shorts and oversized fraternity tees and swapping them for sleepwear that fits our age a little better.
I'm constantly searching for the thing that's on sale; for the the bargain, or the hand-me-down... As far as fashion goes, I always feel like I'm not ahead of the trends.
Guys in balaclavas with rickety, hand-me-down M16s handcuffed us all five of together, and put us in the back of this fucked-up white Ford F150 that's riddled with bullet holes.
All that said, the most fun part of hand-me-down life isn't saving money, saving space, bucking gender norms, or watching my kid impressively create his own complex toys out of twigs.
When teenagers grouse about their chores, their hand-me-down phones or the discomfort of having braces, parents can worry that their adolescent is marching down the path toward becoming an entitled ingrate.
At $25 each (except the 2-in-1 at $29) the price leans more investment than basic, although I like the idea of having a spoon that could become a hand-me-down.
The little royal, who wore his brother's striped hand-me-down shorts from Spanish brand Neck and Neck, struts right up to the lens and flashes a grin, showing off his first two teeth.
So the hand-me-down Crock-Pot wasn't to blame — but moments later it's confirmed, in an absolutely heartbreaking scene, that he died in the hospital due to cardiac arrest despite escaping the flames.
The pact could be the first in a series of similar deals as Tokyo cranks up defense diplomacy with Southeast Asian nations eager for hand-me-down patrol aircraft, ships and other military equipment.
The family gave me and my brothers hand-me-down sport coats, ties and slacks, much better than the stuff we used to get at Claber's, the local Wal-Mart equivalent of those days.
"   On the bedside tables — a hand-me-down from mom Kris Jenner, she reveals — the star notes, "I always put out glass carafes with filtered water on these tables so my guests can stay hydrated.
She sold her home and now lives in a small, studio apartment, wears all hand-me-down clothes, gets her food from a local farmers market and she doesn't have a TV or Netflix account.
"She actually sleeps with it on right now because she's going through that transition of not wanting to sleep in her crib," she notes, adding that the crib was a hand-me-down from Brooks.
Little Louis may be wearing 5-year-old brother Prince George's hand-me-down cotton bloomer shorts and shoes in the photo, but he looks exactly like Charlotte when she was around the same age.
Psychological studies and parenting books are among the sources we mine for guidance, but we'd be remiss to ignore the wealth of hand-me-down wisdom from none other than the parents of Bill Gates.
Click through to learn more about some stand-outs, from the surprising story behind her 21st birthday dress to the source of her favorite vintage bag (which surprisingly isn't a Kris Jenner hand-me-down).
That bucks the traditional flow of hand-me-down planes from North American carriers to counterparts in emerging-market countries and makes an already volatile market for Boeing Co. and Airbus Group SE more unpredictable.
She builds to an exclamation point talking about owning a hand-me down bedroom set and lamp covered with images of the most infamous sad clown before she tumbles into a welcome break of laughter.
One iPhone model you should probably pass on (unless you get it as a hand-me-down for free; can't beat free) is my beloved iPhone 6S aka the last iPhone with a headphone jack.
The Jews Jacob had grown up with adjusted their aviator glasses with only the muscles in their faces while analyzing Fugazi lyrics as they pushed in the lighters of their hand-me-down Volvo wagons.
Furnished with a hand-me-down stage for its bar and performance venue, and 90 seats purchased for a single Czech koruna (about four cents) for its lecture hall, Campus Hybernska is just getting started.
At one point, Gypsy stares out the window as her neighbor Lacey's friends arrive in a hand-me-down car, wearing ripped jean shorts and tossing their long hair as they run inside to meet Lacey.
He last year announced to China his "separation" from Washington, has complained about being given "hand-me-down" U.S. military hardware, and once invited American investors jittery about his remarks to pack their bags and leave.
Watch: How One Matchmaker Changed Online Dating for Women Everywhere My first domestic violence case was a hand-me-down, stalled by a recanting victim and colleagues who smelled a defeat and kept passing it around.
When the blackness fades, she is seen in a desert carrying Luke Skywalker's hand-me-down lightsaber, now mended following the events of "The Last Jedi," and staring down the barrel of Kylo Ren's TIE fighter.
They live in a house with a whole host of pets: cats Apples and Dude, Cinnamon the fish, a Shiba Inu named Panda, and a hand-me-down Parrot from Andy Richter named Macho (née Nacho).
He is often seen around town in a cowboy hat (a hand-me-down from his father, a former rodeo judge), paired with athletic shoulder pads over his bare torso, or a sweatshirt with an exposed back.
If a mink coat or fox stole already exists as a hand-me-down from your grandmother or is for sale at your local vintage haunt, wouldn't wearing these be better than buying new or buying faux?
When Tucker spent time in the hospital to undergo surgery on several heart defects, the Sesame Street character was right by his side, a special hand-me-down that had been passed along by his older sister.
As a Barbie-doll-playing little girl myself, I had some head-scratching, worrisome moments taking my daughter to play in the town's touch football league and watching her dress in her brother's hand-me-down sweatpants.
Decorating a new place is super fun, but if paying for new furniture has you convincing yourself that you can live with that horrendous hand-me-down plaid couch for a few more years, we have a solution.
She is wearing what the news outlets called a royal hand-me-down: a blue and white cardigan worn by her older brother, Prince George, 4, for a family portrait marking the queen's 90th birthday in April 2016.
Princess Estelle, in a hand-me-down pink coat borrowed from the wardrobe of her aunt, Princess Madeleine, sat between her father Prince Daniel and her uncle Prince Carl Philip, whose wife stunned in blue at 8 months pregnant.
It came out just five months ago, but perhaps you were tempted by Google's offer of getting one of Android's best cameras for $399, liked what you saw, and see your Pixel 3A as a potential hand-me-down?
Our couch is a hand-me-down, my favorite chair is from my mother, our dining set is from an estate sale, most of our clothes are from thrift stores, and we buy our groceries from a discount grocer.
With intricate smocking, puffed sleeves and a Peter Pan collar, the two dresses are almost identical – but unlike Prince George – who wore an outfit of his father's on Saturday – the pretty dress is not a family hand-me-down.
I grew up loving them and not having them and feeling special when I was given a new pair and not a hand-me-down, and I don't diminish the importance of the world of fashion and the fashion industry.
In an adorable new snap shared by the actress on Tuesday, Philipps' daughter Cricket Pearl, 6 next month, poses in a white Freaks and Geeks-themed T-shirt that was originally a hand-me-down from big sister Birdie Leigh, 10.
So the decidedly 2010 opening twinkle of Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" still plops me back behind the wheel of a hand-me-down Chevy Malibu, making rolling stops in a town with three ice cream joints, one traffic light, and no grocery store.
It's almost impossible take aim with the hand-me-down Makarov you were given: Every shot causes the gun to buck wildly and in your hands and the gunsight is little more than a giant low-slung wedge of steel atop the slide.
" Hamilton, whose distrust of materialism has British upper-middle-class roots—describing Gunn's apartment, she remarked that it contained no hand-me-down furniture—said that Gunn had told Abush, "You know that the beach house is yours, the dog is yours.
Dr. Bronner's is excellent at removing strong odors of all sorts from clothes — I've recommended it for washing everything from hand-me-down baby clothes that smell strongly of perfume to coveralls that got soaked in gasoline, and it has worked every time.
Rather than allow today's union members to have a real voice and a choice, entrenched labor leaders insist that these public-sector employees simply wear the hand-me-down unions that their foremothers and fathers passed down from the Johnson and Carter years.
It manifests everything I loathe about myself at this stage in my life: The clutter is my laziness, the untouched kitchen appliances are my ineptitude, the shabbyish hand-me-down furniture from my parents is my general malaise at not having achieved more.
Little Louis, who wore his brother's striped hand-me-down shorts from Spanish brand Neck and Neck, can even be seen on the swing that Kate also playfully enjoyed just a few days ago when giving a sneak peek at her plans for the garden.
It turns out that deleting user accounts doesn't clean out your data from your device, and so before giving away a device — or before you load up a hand-me-down device with your data — you need to do a full cleanup of the device.
It was also the first Indian outfit I had that wasn't a hand-me-down, sewn by my grandmother, or a dance costume; it was fitted exactly to my little 10-year-old body instead of uncomfortably cinching my waist in the wrong places.
While other guys our age were just learning how to be a gentleman, Mason held doors, picked up the tab, and never hesitated to give anyone a ride home—if you were willing to ride in his goofy hand-me-down minivan that is.
To go meant to put on a stiff, scratchy collared shirt, hand-me-down dress pants so oversized they made me look like a white, six-year-old MC Hammer, and a pair of black derby shoes that felt like they were carved out of wood.
The intense, thin-skinned freshness of Brandywines, the apricot glow of Jaune Flamme, the green standoffish shoulders of Black Krims, and my personal favorite, Rose de Berne, with its blush of color and amazing taste—all those heirlooms are the product of long-ago, hand-me-down mutations.
The kitchen is easily one of the most expensive rooms to stock: With appliances, plus dinnerware, plus cookware, and then, you know, actual groceries on top of that, you might find yourself resorting to sticky hand-me-down pots and pans from yard sales with questionable crust dried on them.
No matter how they're using an application, be it a phone or through VR, manipulating it with gesture or a mouse, on the latest and greatest tech or a hand-me-down 2G, it is our responsibility to make our products accessible to everyone—and that's a pretty tall order.
Now that Epperson is free of her student and auto loan debt, her midterm goal is to save up enough to buy a new car using cash, and to replace her hand-me-down TV. But first, she says, her priority is to build up a six-month emergency fund.
It felt huge to me, but at the same time, I was a little embarrassed about my older hand-me-down couch, so once again, I "leveled up" my belongings, partly because it seemed like the natural next thing to do and partly to match my friends' expectations of my home.
The layout's flaws only amplified loyalists' affection, as did the strategically selected hand-me-down furniture and art collection; the umbrella stand in the vestibule; the long mahogany bar, with its shelves of wine bottles and ample room to eat, and the jazzy Judy Rifka murals of gamboling figures, "Satyricon" lite.
Although it was originally reported that Gigi's head-to-toe sequin embellished ensemble was a one-off custom made for the model, it appears Lopez's glitzy jumpsuit isn't a hand-me-down, but actually a piece from the designer's collection, also available to all of us regular folk for a measly $12,000.
At the time, I could often be found stalking the perimeter of my local skate park, dressed in a pair of scuffed dungarees with my sister's hand-me-down T-shirts straining across my chubby, adolescent breasts, staring at the tousle-haired boys in baggy shirts grinding their way along lumps of concrete.
Amber Rose and Khloe Kardashian's epic Twitter battle Chyna weighed in over reports that Tyga re-gifted her car to Kylie Jenner for the teen's birthday, telling TMZ she wanted to see receipts proving the rapper paid for a new vehicle for his new girlfriend rather than giving her a hand-me-down.
They were a pair of hand-me-down plastic jelly shoes that had been clear at some point, but by the time they got to me, were closer to the color of a weak tea, and came adorned with two yellow Gerbera daisies — one for the top of each of my child-size-4.5 feet.
That's potentially because the ones who grew up with Weezer, shouting "Undone (The Sweater Song)" while driving in their parents' hand-me-down cars, are now Elder Millennials, for whom the prospect of actually attending Coachella is a living nightmare — but it's pretty fun to witness the spectacle from the comfort of your couch.
By virtue of my job as a Times reporter covering the American government, I somehow became one of the people whose lives are deemed so important that we need millions of dollars spent to protect us from people so poor they have no shoes on their feet and wear hand-me-down Chelsea football shirts.
Prince George may not have been in the newly released photo of Princess Charlotte adorably cradling their newborn brother Prince Louis on her third birthday, but eagle-eyed fans of the family may have noticed a familiar article of clothing in the sweet portrait: Charlotte's navy blue cardigan is a hand-me-down from her big brother!
Behind the site's newly renovated front page, past the established merchants selling "new, fixed-price" goods, the hand-me-down myths of postwar America — middle-class dreams of job security and a decent wage, the virtues of conspicuous consumption and the disposable lifestyle, the equation of net worth with self-worth — are on the block at Buy It Now prices.
After I put the word out, I soon got a used car seat — and the used stroller it fit into, and a used crib, and a used breastfeeding pillow, a used high chair, used bottles, hand-me-down baby clothes of all sizes, and yes, even a used breast pump — from kind co-workers, neighbors, friends, family, and my dentist.
But for historian and journalist Tanisha C. Ford, the only way to start is with the legacy of Carl Jones, who saw Black kids wearing oversized hand-me-down jeans because they couldn't afford their own sizes and chose to flip the stigma by giving the style a name and producing it in loud bright colors when he launched Cross Colours in 1989.
"'War and Peace' wouldn't have lasted 200 years if he hadn't really tapped into something universal," Mr. Malloy said, speaking during an interview in his Brooklyn studio, with a portrait of Tolstoy on the wall, Christmas lights still strung over a hand-me-down piano, a bookcase groaning with volumes of Marvel comics, and a bottle of whiskey atop a mini-refrigerator.
With them was a column of vehicles new, old and very old: armored personnel carriers, mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles (MRAPs), Humvees, S.U.V.s, ambulances, Soviet tanks, backhoes, bulldozers, long-suffering sedans and a bestiary of retrofitted pickups and battlewagons, whose tenuous welding and argumentative suspensions told of the years Iraqi Kurds had spent fighting with hand-me-down and homemade hardware in one war or another.
" There are two issues with the " powder keg" or " super cycle" bull case, according to a note distributed on Thursday to Wells Fargo clients: "However, we believe this is the incorrect way to model iPhone units as it has two inherent flaws: 1) not all of the 500MM is what we would consider eligible (we think hand-me-down iPhones, for example, to one's child or even low-end iPhone sales in some emerging countries should not be included in the base) and 2) it ignores the cyclicality and subscriber eligibility evident from our proprietary units per carrier analysis, which suggests the iPhone 8 may have headwinds.
In addition to ample outfit options for the unpredictable spring weather, I'd also brought an assortment of functional and decorative extras, which I wore intermittently throughout the week: Adam Selman x Le Specs mirrored sunnies that I bought myself for Christmas; a Patagonia fanny pack worn unironically around my waist; two cotton bandannas; a brand new tube of bright red Mac lipstick; a headlamp purchased at Paragon Sports; tiny hand-me-down hoop earrings from a former colleague I admire; a baseball cap I bought after a hike with my little sister; an oversized black cashmere sweater I got for $2 in a Southern Arizona retirement community, and a loose quartz crystal charged at Joshua Tree's Integratron, for good measure.

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