Gearing up for winter in Karachi on a shoestring budget
KARACHI: The city is not known for its chilly winters but there is no harm in preparing for cold weather. So even though you may already have plenty of warm clothes for yourself at home, households with growing children need new clothes for them as they are always outgrowing things. But by ‘new’ we don’t always have to mean ‘new’.
One man’s junk is another man’s treasure. Not everyone can afford new clothes all the time, and that’s where the Lunda Bazaars spread all over the city, especially at weekly bazaars come in. “My children are of growing age. What fits them one season doesn’t the next. And children’s clothes are expensive. I don’t want to spend so much on something which is going to last my child only a season, so here I am,” says Samina Bibi, fishing through a pile of little jackets and hoodies for her 10-year-old boy.