How to Handle it If Your Parents Buy You Dorky Clothes

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When it comes to clothes, are your parents still trying to dress you like a fifth grader? Then you need to take charge.

To complete this How-To you will need:

A take-charge attitude
Creativity
Maturity
Ingenuity or money

Step 1: Check return policy

Check the store's return policy. Some places will issue store credit without a receipt if the tags are still intact and the clothes appear undamaged. So control the impulse to damage the clothes.

Tip: Consider trying to sell them on eBay—your trash may be someone else's (pitiful) treasure.

Step 2: Donate them

If returning the clothes is out of the question, try donating them to charity. Explain to your parents that you "have so much, while others have so little."

Step 3: Tailor them

Make some alterations. With a bit of ingenuity and access to a sewing machine (or at least scissors), it's possible to transform something ugly into something pretty—or, at the very least, something non-offensive.

Tip: Unless you're pretty good at garment alteration, spend a little money to have them professionally altered. Ill-fitting pleated trousers may be bad, but ill-fitting pleated shorts are worse.

Step 4: Ruin it accidentally

Accidentally ruin the clothes by reading the laundering instructions and then doing exactly the opposite. If it says "dry-clean only," toss it in the washing machine with a pair of jeans on "heavy load." Feign disappointment.

Step 5: Try honesty

Of course, you could always try being honest. Explain to your parents the importance of not resembling a vision-impaired septuagenarian.

Tip: Refrain from bratty outbursts like, "Just because you've given up on looking good, doesn't mean I have to!" Remember, the goal is to convince your parents to stop treating you like a small child.

Step 6: Work it

Your final option? Work it! Make do with what you've got. Do you think that history's greatest tastemakers shopped at the mall?

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[AprilToniaRuiz]

Who WOULDN'T want a Charlie Brown t-shirt?!

[CindyCleoChiu]

What if I am a 5th Grader?

[TheStillLyfe]

Lol

[KamrinLily]

@RickyMagician No not JFK I meant JK it's the predictive text -_-

[KamrinLily]

@RickyMagician Omg are you Harry Potter??!!! XD JFK

[BIcYcLeMaGiCiAn1]

0:46 that will never work

[mangafreak29]

@EMalkin71luver Your a good person

[mj4ever1332]

1:51 i thought he was angry and peeing on the wall

[turtoise87]

Hay when I was in grade 5 I dressed like a skater

[2541steve]

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Female 13-17

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Male 45-54 HAHA



[nickwillsk8formoney]

step 1 : smoke weed, you wont care about cool clothes when ur high

did you know: marijuana is illegal

[AngharadWarren]

go shopping withg your mum and say want you like and dont like, duh!