When I turned 12, I was given a hand-me-down guitar and a chord book.

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The solar cell manufacturing industry for years made do with hand-me-down tools from the computer chip industry.

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Now he has shown her everything and she uses his hand-me-down old kit to make her own Youtube video logs.

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When the sub can't sell a hand-me-down for the sum it expected--known as the residual value--the shortfall shows up as a loss.

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Those poor children could still play with their hand-me-down clothespin dolls.

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Our failures aren't old enough to be a generational hand-me-down.

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From gas for my old Honda (a hand-me-down from my grandmother), to movie tickets for nights out with friends, I learned how much money I would need and what I could go without.

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In one, a teen purchases a new pair of jeans through her laptop in order to pre-empt receiving a hand-me-down pair from her mother, while, in another, an employee quickly orders a tablet computer via his smart phone so he can fit in with his co-workers, all of whom have tablets.

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Thing is, for us (and likely many of you), they last far longer than our clinically-diagnosed Gadget Attention Deficit Disorder would ever tolerate -- but for your dad, your sister, your college buddy with the hand-me-down ZEOS Pantera running Windows 95, or anyone weary of re-upping a two-year commitment, a handset can easily become a serious long-term investment.

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The crunchy, urgent power-pop of "Hand Me Down" opens the album on a particularly auspicious note, as crunchy guitars and Flotard's incomparable voice simultaneously destroy and mesmerize.

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