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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

... to want to keep out baby stuff?

35 replies

fishcake84 · 08/12/2015 22:21

Our DS is nearly 1. His newborn, 0-3 month and 3-6 month clothes are now packed away in the loft. Before packing them away, I threw away stuff that was too badly faded/sicked/pooed on, and a few other bits that weren't our kind of thing got given to charity. We still have quite a lot of stuff, I admit.

DH's colleague's daughter is expecting a baby girl next month and he randomly told his colleague we have loads of baby stuff to get rid of, and we wouldn't need it back.

I have tried to suggest that actually the stuff I've kept has been kept for a reason, i.e. us having further children, and I don't want to give it away. If I was going to go around giving stuff away it would be to friends and family, not the daughter of a colleague who neither of us actually know.

He has suggested just giving away the unisex stuff as he knows she is having a girl. I pointed out that there is a 50:50 chance we will need it when we have another baby.

He is having a total grouch now about "losing face" in front of this colleague. I have suggested his easy way out is to say that I only packed away stuff we wanted to keep and gave the rest to charity, which actually is pretty much the truth! He still seems to think this is unreasonable of me.

AIBU to want to keep my baby clothes after our first baby, in anticipation of further babies? DH is trying to make me feel like I'm a heartless uncharitable cow, but fuck it I just don't want to give my son's things away to a stranger!

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cdtaylornats · 08/12/2015 23:33

Easy solution, he gives away half the stuff, you keep the other half. Its as much his as yours.

Gladysandtheflathamsandwich · 08/12/2015 23:38

I would cost every single item you have kept as if you had to buy it new. Total it all up and ask him if he is happy to pay £££ for all the new things you will need for the next baby on the back of this gift?

Or word it that he is gifftng £££ of his own money to this random person and see what his reaction is.

Gladysandtheflathamsandwich · 08/12/2015 23:38

gifting

ChocolateFuzz · 09/12/2015 07:13

The chances of having a boy are actually about about 51/49 so maybe get rid of all the unisex stuff and hope that the 1% advantage works out for you? Not helpfull but it's the best I've got

WorldsBiggestGrotbag · 09/12/2015 07:20

Is there something you could buy for him to give to his colleague to help him save face

Actually flabbergasted by this. Maybe he could buy something for his colleague to get himself out of the situation he created? I imagine the OP has got better things to do than to go shopping for someone's baby who she doesn't know (and better things to spend her money on!)
YANBU OP.

elliejjtiny · 09/12/2015 10:37

YANBU

DS5 is definitely our last baby (although so were DS3 and DS4 Blush). I have given away lots of baby stuff but still kept quite a bit too. I'm very fussy about who I give it to as well (mostly to homeless charities where I know they will be appreciated). I get nagged all the time to part with stuff though, including stuff that I'm still using (someone asked me for my buggy a few months ago, DS5 isn't walking yet Shock.

DecaffCoffeeAndRollupsPlease · 09/12/2015 10:47

It's his baby and therefore his baby clothes too. Was he involved in the decision over which things to keep /donate/dispose of?

I would let him take in what he wants and then try to communicate about future plans better from then on.

sleeponeday · 11/12/2015 00:58

I have to say, I loved second hand things! Maybe I know people with excellent taste. Grin

But I wouldn't want things that the other side wanted to keep. That would feel awful.

Postchildrenpregranny · 11/12/2015 01:08

Mine are grown up . I still have lots of their baby/toddler clothes .The smocked dresses my mum made (like the one Princess Charlotte was wearing in recent photo), things she and MIL knitted, , items I have photos of them wearing and one or two really cute babygros I just loved . During our recent joint loft clear -out, DDs and I had a lovely time going through them . I doubt their own childen will wear them (except maybe the dresses which might count as vintage !)as they will probably be deemed too old fashioned, but they are part of my memories of their chilhood

BeanGirls · 11/12/2015 09:19

Yanbu sounds like something my dh would do. A lot of people hold on to their baby stuff for the exact reasons you gave. Although ), the colleague might be a stranger to you but he's not to dh and presumably he has a right to say where he thinks the clothes can go too.

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