I can't ever imagine being so financially well off that...

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... I would pay £49 for a toddler puddle suit from Mountain Warehouse when I could buy a second hand MW one on eBay or fb for £3.

There's a few of these like this.

Same goes for buying things such as Bumbos brand new. Jumperoos or vtech walkers.

Who actually buys these brand new when they can constantly be found for a fraction of the price in immaculate condition elsewhere.

I'm sorry OP but I just dont ever see these things available "in excellent condition for pennies".

Have you got a few links to prove that? And not with comparisons to rrp as nothing is ever sold for that. E.g. I only paid £18 for a puddle suit from mountain warehouse.

Thanks you Ophelia!

It's the plastic stuff that lasts child after child after child that I was referring to.

I should have been more specific.

I wasn't referring to clothes. Everything I listed was plastic.

I hate that reverse snobbery nonsense.

You buy second hand, good for you?

Honestly? I never find these 2nd hand, immaculate condition bargains everyone on mnet claims their DC are clothed in.
I completely agree with that!

I like to buy what I need, when I need it, delivered to my door, and that can be returned if it doesn't work properly - or can return a size or 2 if I am not sure which one to buy.

I can't waste my weekends in charity shops looking for bargain - I'd rather buy things on sale - then sell them back. It works.

I bought my last travel system for £850 in the sales. I used it for a good 3 years (just changed the car seat obviously), could have returned or get it fixed for free if anything had got wrong, sold it for £500.
Worth every single penny, was so much better than the much cheaper versions I could have bought. So what?

The day I think that £50 is over spending is the day I change job very quickly!

I'd just like to say a big thank you to all of you who make up find reasons to buy new, allowing me to pick up just-as-good-as-new second hand items for a fraction of the price. Keep up the good work, I appreciate your generosity.

I just got this for £5.

£49 brand new.

The Jumperoo I got DS was around £100 new and in excellent condition (not a mark or scratch on it for £15).
Bumbo £4 etc etc etc etc

If you want to buy second-hand, buy secondhand. But what it's got to do with you if other people don't want to? Why the sanctimonious tone? Why are you talking as if only millionaires can spend £49 on something for their kid? People can spend their own money on what they like.

I buy stuff from eBay and charity shops sometimes. I also buy new things. Similarly, I sometimes buy lipsticks from Rimmel for £5.99 and I sometimes buy them for £25 from Charlotte Tilbury. I earn a junior manager's salary, so I'm hardly Rockefeller.

Convenience and choice I think.

I think if I was actually massively rich (seems unlikely) I would feel guilty buying a £3 snowsuit when I could afford to buy new. There is only a limited supply of good quality second hand goods.

However some things I just think are massively overpriced and ridiculous. In Germany shoes for children, including tiny, just-walking babies are €70!! I'm sorry but who buys them? I can (just) understand for say a four year old who will wear them for a year (but I still get the sale ones because €70 stings) but a one year old whose shoe size may change every 6-12 weeks, you're having a laugh?

If it's about excessive plastic waste then YANBU but I don't think it was that clear from the original post. Obviously we should all be buying less plastic where possible.

I just sold my £60 jumperoo on for £45, so basically mine cost the same as yours!

I'd just like to say a big thank you to all of you who make up find reasons to buy new

You are very welcome ThePants999, it's people like you buying them back from me that make it all worth it. We spend the same in the end, but I get a brand new product under warrantee, and usually delivery is included in the price. So thank YOU.

We don't spend the same in the end. I spend basically zero, because third hand sells for the same as second hand.

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No time to search for bargains and then having long discussions about pick up. Same reason I stopped trying to sell and just give it to a charity shop.

I did buy a lot on organised sales when DD was a toddler and I also sold a lot of things like puddlesuits etc but that was twice a year. Everything in between needed to be bought new.

I think that after the Bumbo deaths most people dumped them- so probably why cheap.

You would hate me, I buy everything new and I don’t sell anything, I keep it all!

I used to trawl ebay for ages and ages, not many real bargains to be had. Same with charity shops: i mostly see Primark tees that cost £3 new, fir £2.50 what is the point.

Showing off about bargains is showing off how much time you have to trawl through selling sites and visit FB sellers and charity shops.

Not everyone is that time-rich

I know someone who buys new things only, and was binning clothes after baby had grown out of them. She started donating them after myself and another friend talked to her about it.
She can afford to do this because she's claiming benefits wrongly and she gets a lot of help from family so she does. She also wants a lot of children so I guess the bulkier stuff will be kept for the next lot, she has three or four prams so you'd hope so!

I am all for bargains and everything, but sounds pretty grim never to actually chose anything, and just make do with second-hand items on principle because they're there and they are cheap.

I like to chose what I buy. If people feel superior because they are happy with second-best, good luck to them. I need people to buy my stuff anyway, so I won't complain!

If no-one was buying 2nd-hand stuff, I would be losing out

I'm not kidding, that's almost identical to the puddle suit I have from mw. Complete with dinosaurs. It was not £49 even at RRP! It was £30, I got it for £18, annoyingly I subsequently saw it reduced to £12. I'll sell mine on for £5, and will have had the benefit of choice, having it brand new, getting a receipt and ability to return it etc, for not much more than you.

That's one example. How much time do you have to spend to find things like this?

I earn a lot. I'm pretty careful with money but I don't have time to hunt for bargains for everything.

I just don't like buying second hand. Never have. Although I have reused loads of DS1 clothes and toys for DS2 but had to buy a new pram and next2me crib.

I buy my kids thermals, walking gear and outerware brand new because we are out as much as possible and they wear the clothes to death. If I got stuff second hand and it was already dodgy then it just wouldn't last. I'm not being "precious". I just want to make sure the quality is intact before they start wearing it for all the stuff they do.

I like having new things and don't see what is wrong with that.

There is a lot wrong with that. We all need to stop buying fewer new things, as a species we are endlessly manufacturing, consuming and discarding more and more stuff when there is already plenty of stuff ... the environment we live in and depend upon is dying and we can't possibly slow down because we 'like having new things'...?! No! It's got to stop!

I know that is sanctimonious, and I am a hypocrite because I do still buy new things when I can't easily find them second hand. But there really is no need to go and spend £160 on a Playmobil set when you could get the same set second hand for about £30 just because it's 'nice to have new things'.

The argument that people have to buy new things in order for others to obtain them second hand doesn't really fly. You don't have to have everyone buying new things all the time in order to have a thriving second hand economy.

Likewise I can't understand why people say they would 'never' dress their children in second hand clothes. This makes literally no sense. Unless you throw your child's clothes out after one wear instead of washing them, how is a second hand jumper that you wash at home any different to a jumper you bought new and your kid wore 20 times? It makes no sense at all. Time to ditch the snobbery and sort ourselves out because this constant consumerism is fucking everyone over in the long run.

Money isn’t an issue and we both work full time so I’m not really inclined to spend precious free time searching eBay, charity shops etc. We also live in a flat with limited storage so when a baby item is outgrown or no longer needed it goes to a women’s shelter. We’ll buy new for the next baby (if that happens) and in the meantime are benefitting a good cause. I have nothing against second hand per se, I’ve taken stuff from family/friends when offered, but I just don’t view it as massively practical for us. Each to their own- enjoy your bargains OP, I’m seriously impressed, but for my lifestyle convenience wins every time.

And before anyone shouts at me I'm currently wearing boots, a cardigan and a scarf from eBay!

I think no-one ever really plays the full price. So for my jumperoo, I very much doubt I paid anywhere near £100 if that’s what the rrp is now. I do think you have a point though as they are always on the parent boards for £5-10. For me, I just like buying new. I get more pleasure in that than going to a random’s house. There are bargains to be had but I’m rich enough that I don’t need the hassle and would rather someone with less money had the benefit.

"Third hand sells as well as second"

There are some things that last well but I'm baffled by all these perfect condition toys... I've got a toddler DS and newborn DD, many of our big plastic toys are in good nick but clearly heavily used, marks, missing parts. Things don't last forever.