AIBU with baby clothes??

[laura6032]

Due to have DS number 2 in few weeks, DS number 1 is 5 yo.

I've kept pretty much all his stuff, except bought new crib, clothes, blankets ect.

I mentioned to friend that I was washing all ds1 old clothes for baby arriving, they're all in great nic, smell little musty but will wash couple times.

Well they said they wouldn't do that, they'd buy all new, just in case??

Am I BU??

God some people just don’t have a clue about money/environment/waste/consumerism. It’s just not on their radar.

I’m due ds2 in a couple of months. I’m reusing all my son’s old clothes. I’ve had them in vacuum storage bags in the loft and they will be fine if I give them a couple of washes. It would be such a waste not to reuse them and I’m looking forward to putting him all the outfits I loved on ds1. I’ve only bought a couple of bits and pieces new this time and that’s only because this one is a winter baby and my son was born in spring.

In my family, they not only went down to next sibling/s, but also meandered the by-ways of various cousins.

Are you sure it isn’t the musty bit that she’s reacting to rather than saving clothes per se. I’ve saved all of my first child’s clothes for subsequent babies but if they smelt musty I’d potentially have second thoughts for a newborn.

Are the kids born around a similar time of year? If not, you’ll have to buy some stuff due to seasons being at different age group (does that make sense).

I’m keeping all clothes in good nick for if we have a 2nd. They’ll only not get used if we have a boy (although most baby stuff we got was neutral even after DD was born). Or if they are born 3 months either side or DDs birth month

Well anything that's permanently and obviously stained, or from which the smell will not wash out, or whose construction has collapsed is rather different from perfectly good clothes that just need a wash hen you get them out again.

My DSis has always envied me my escape from having to wear boy's swimming trunks age 7ish because the fabric had given up and rotted. I

DS2 has always worn DS1's clothes. Actually being bigger for his age and a small age gap, they tend to share anyway as they are close in size with similar taste. There's certainly no time to store them between sizes, they just swap drawers.

Other than a few emergency babygrows as DS2 needed NB for a couple of weeks, I barely had to buy anything in the first year.

I've done this because I was so attached to my daughters gorgeous outfits that I went totally over the top and bought way too much for my PFB..

New baby DS is going to be wearing some excessively girly floral (but practically brand new) clothing for approximately 4 years

I never bought DD pink or sparkly clothes until her two younger brothers were bigger than her (probably when she reached 16). And by that age, she didn't want anything pink or sparkly.

My DS is wearing clothes that have gone through my sisters friends and then my nephew. I'm now putting it all in spacebags and back in the loft for the next one if I have another boy. If not it'll be passed on to the next person to have a boy .

My sil hands down her eldests clothes to her youngest then they come to me where they make their way through all 4 of mine and get passed to a very grateful neighbour. So these clothes are going through 7 kids!