Do you keep hand me downs between your children?

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Does it depend on the age gap? Do you keep everything?

5 year age gap.
I kept: dresses, skirts, trousers, shirts in good condition, coats, wellies, party shoes, halloween outfits etc.
I didn't keep: worn out looking shirts, anything I didn't like, underwear, normal shoes/trainers
DD2 was allowed to reject anything not to her taste when old enough when the time came that she fitted them.

Saved a fortune and DD2 generally loved wearing sister's clothes and hates shopping, so a win-win.

3 year gap but opposite sexes. I keep cloths that are still in good condition and relatively neutral, which works out around 1/3. I get about the same again from a friend who has a child the same sex as my youngest, then about 1/3 new.

Bigger items like buggies or bikes I purposely buy gender neutral so it can be passed.

DS1 is a late spring baby and DS2 will be late autumn, so not much baby clothing will be able to be reused by us. Once DS hits size 2-3 tho

*though, we will be definitely using hand-me-downs.

Apologies for the double-post. For some reason, my phone keeps posting before I'm finished typing!

Yes, everything that survives. They aren’t the same sex but I dress them both in unisex clothes anyway so it works well. My daughter asked for one dress, so she has one, but thankfully got annoyed by its limitations pretty quickly as she’s very active.
I could afford to buy them both new clothes but for sustainability reasons it’s 99% secondhand.

Yep, 3 years apart. Dd2 has a chest of drawers for hand-me-downs that don’t fit yet. I go through it a few times of year and transfer to her wardrobe. If I’m sick of the sight of something or dd2 doesn’t like it at all, I’ll donate it.

I buy new underwear and shoes. And always let her pick a few bits out each season as they have different styles.

Nope but I did save one cute baby coat they both wore.

14 yr age gap.

Yes and then passed onto cousins.

DD1 & DD2 - definitely did until about age 13 & 11. Dd3 who is 7years younger, I kept things that I was confident I would like to offer to her and she may like. She's bigger than DD2 so I've not had to keep it for that long.

I have a girl and then a boy. When they were babies I kept pretty much everything unisex and handed it all down (generally gifts received were more girly and I gave those to the charity shop). As they got older my dd wanted to have more dresses etc and my son didn’t like pink so the amount I could hand down became less but I still went for unisex coloured coats, wellies, fleeces etc

DC1 and DC2 are opposite sex / 2 years apart. I've handed down hoodies (plain in block colours - red / navy / black) and I've also handed down school uniform jumpers. Rest gets handed down to cousins.

DC2 and DC3 are both same sex but 3 years apart. I keep anything really nice or almost unworn. The rest gets handed down to my sisters DC and then handed back to DC3 (sister's DC is in-between the age of my two).

I've kept everything that was in decent condition for number 2, DC 1 is a girl so once we find out what we're having this time round I'll have a good sort out. A lot of the baby stuff we bought was unisex though so we'll get a lot of use out of the smaller stuff.

There are four years and about eighty percentiles between my two boys. DS2 wears the clothes DS1 wore six years ago. School uniform definitely gets passed down. DS1 has never cared about what he wore as long as he is comfortable. DS2 is fussier, so I do buy him new things too.

I do but they look different. Certain styles don't suit them both so I sell some things on.

I feel guilty that next year my youngest will start secondary school and won't get a new unicorn. It seems pointless buying new when I can get a larger size for dd1 and she can use the shakier one.

Gosh yes. I had a six year gap, and kept all the lightly worn clothes. Both DD's also got hand me downs from older cousins, so some things were worn by 4 children, particularly "nice" dresses, last forever. I even sold some on Ebay. If they are good to start with, are kept nicely, and not trashed, clothes can go for a long, long, time.

I also just remembered the Boden coats...... saved so much money by handing down and around.

And loft shopping - yes, younger DD always asked if it she was old enough for the next stage of clothes. It was a special treat to get all the clothes down, and do a massive try on.

@vroom321 I feel guilty that next year my youngest will start secondary school and won't get a new unicorn.

Don't feel bad, they have to learn sometimes they can't have everything

Of course! We're very well off as well. Reducing waste is really important.

I don't hand down socks or underwear, anything ripped torn or stretched.

Yes. DC4 freaks now if he touches new clothes that haven't gone through 3 other children first as they are "tough"

There's less than 6 years between them so other go from one wardrobe to another. DC3 is massive so is handing down to DC2 (and indeed DH) Also pass anything that's lasted onto friends.

Yip keep it all 2.5 yrs between my girls. I still buy youngest some new items but a lot of her stuff is her big sisters. I feel bad she doesn't get all new stuff but it's such a waste and I bought expensive, good quality so a lot of it is still in great condition. Not many shoes get handed down unless I'm really good condition and not worn a lot.

I then sell on after youngest has finished. Some of it by then is playwear but perfect for nursery but some is still in great condition.

There will come a time when youngest won't want her big sisters cast offs but until then saves me a fortune!

Yes we've kept everything that's still in good condition. I have 3 boys, 4 years between 1 and 2 and 2 years between 2 and 3. They're all born around the same time of year so everything is season appropriate which helps.

I’ve kept everything from my DS as I’m hoping to have another DC in a couple of years. Will then sell/donate when no longer needed.

As babies and toddlers, yes.
When they started showing preferences for certain items, I kept unusual items like waterproof trousers and Christmas jumpers.
The only standard thing I keep is trousers, as DS2 wears them about 5 times a year, so he has to suffer cast offs!!

I wore my dusters stuff but my younger duster was a bigger gap snd the clothes were possibly too worn out by then!
My kids were different sexes but I did hand my daughter's clothes to a friends daughter who lived in another town (she would have hated to see her clothes on someone else).
I bought quite a bit of second hand clothes especially when they were small.

3 years apart, boy, girl.

Yeah I keep everything. But tbh it's harder when they get older and have an opinion - DD doesn't want to wear stuff with trucks on it.