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To think this is why people buy all brand new clothes for holidays?

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Kittythepink · 08/08/2020 20:33

We are going on a family holiday to the seaside tomorrow. I am so stressed under mountains of clothes to wash, iron and pack for five people.

AIBU to think this is why so many people go holiday shopping for brand new clothes? Put them straight into the suitcase what a brilliant idea! Wink

Seriously though, does anyone buy all brand new clothes for going away? I used to know someone who bought all brand new underwear and socks for each holiday, so maybe it's a thing?

OP posts:
NeverTwerkNaked · 09/08/2020 00:21

I can't believe people do this!! No wonder the planet is fucked

MinesAPintOfTea · 09/08/2020 00:21

I quite often seem to end up with new clothes on holiday. There was the year I forgot my t-shirts, so bought 4 new ones. And the year I unpacked to realise no knickers, so needed new ones. And the sky holiday with no ski socks... There would be no point buying ahead of time: it would just be left at home. I was never this disorganised pre-DC!

TeetotalKoala · 09/08/2020 00:23

I don't for summer holidays as we all have plenty of shorts/t-shirts and the like, but like a couple of PP mentioned, I might for a specific holiday. We skiied for the first time this year so obviously all needed salopettes/jackets/gloves etc. But DH and I will get use out of them again hopefully for a few years to come. I'm hoping to get another year each out if the DCs too as they were generously sized, however, we have all used our ski jackets since returning home as they're bloody good winter ones for a UK winter. In fact, DS2 now uses his ski helmet for his bike and scooter as his normal one cracked, so at least that's getting some use. If he's battered it by next year, I'll replace it then.

But I don't separate clothes by season and just wear most of it year round anyway, so anything I buy new for holiday will inevitably be used once we're back.

MinesAPintOfTea · 09/08/2020 00:23

I'd like to add that these clothes are added to the general pile, not discarded at the end of the holiday.

Wannabegreenfingers · 09/08/2020 00:24

Part of a holiday is new clothes. Who wants to wear old tatty clothes on holiday. Sorry, but you are the weird ones...

TeetotalKoala · 09/08/2020 00:26

@Blackbear19

Are people not embarrassed at throwing their old knickers in a hotel room or apartment bin, that are generally open like a waste paper basket?

My used knickers are carefully disposed of in a wheelie bin that nobody looks in

One year we found a pair of ladies leopard print knickers under the bedside table in our caravan in Dorset. Cleaning crew obviously missed that bit.
GreenRoads · 09/08/2020 00:26

@auberge, I will admit to wearing today, on the beach, a man’s shirt I stole from a fellow student friend in 1993 while on holiday on Fair Isle. Grin

ktp100 · 09/08/2020 00:27

A friend of a friend is a tad pretentious and likes to gob off about how she only buys clothing from supermarket chains for the children for holidays and that they are so cheap she just throws them in the bin after one wear and doesn't have to come home to lots of washing!

This whilst sat in a room full of kids dressed pretty much solely from Asda, Tesco and H&M.

Unbelievable levels of twattery.

IdblowJonSnow · 09/08/2020 00:27

My summery clothes last for years as they dont get worn much.
DCs might get a few new bits, cassie or a new dress. I didnt know this was a thing. I can see it might work well every three years or so, but every year is crazy (to me) even just from an ecological stance.

Smallsteps88 · 09/08/2020 00:32

@Wannabegreenfingers

Part of a holiday is new clothes. Who wants to wear old tatty clothes on holiday. Sorry, but you are the weird ones...
Odd that you believe “not brand new, in season from primark/new look/child labour sweat shop” equals old and tatty.
TeetotalKoala · 09/08/2020 00:34

@Wannabegreenfingers

Part of a holiday is new clothes. Who wants to wear old tatty clothes on holiday. Sorry, but you are the weird ones...
Who said my clothes were tatty?
ThighthighOfthigh · 09/08/2020 00:40

I met a woman (on holiday) who said she bought all new stuff then when she got home she washed, dried and ironed it and repacked it so it was completely ready for the next holiday.

I managed to smile and not point out how insane she was.

MinesAPintOfTea · 09/08/2020 00:44

@ThighthighOfthigh

I met a woman (on holiday) who said she bought all new stuff then when she got home she washed, dried and ironed it and repacked it so it was completely ready for the next holiday.

I managed to smile and not point out how insane she was.

If she lives somewhere that's not warm, what's insane about storing beachwear in her suitcase rather than it being in the way in her wardrobe?
ThighthighOfthigh · 09/08/2020 00:45

Ah but I've just remembered I always forget to pack something vital for one child. Any knickers one year and any shorts the next. Always the same child, the one with the sweetest nature. And no knickers.

ThighthighOfthigh · 09/08/2020 00:46

Tea we both live in London where there's plenty of opportunity to wear summer clothes.

ThighthighOfthigh · 09/08/2020 00:48

It wasn't just beachwear, it was the whole suitcase, dresses, trousers, tops. Not just bikinis.

lampshadery · 09/08/2020 00:50

Yeah when I was a child we pretty much got new clothes every year for our holidays, but only because we grew so much that the previous year's clothes didn't fit. Me and my sibling are both very tall.

Obviously when we got older and stopped growing so much and fit into the previous year's it stopped.

Legoandloldolls · 09/08/2020 00:56

I buy a few new bits but also pack a few worn out end of life bits. Then when.you pack up to come home and exact same items noonger fit in the case, you can dump some to make room.

I saw a family on one holiday bin all their beach towels for the flight home. Everything went in the bin! I dont do that. But a ruined swimsuit, some of my oldest pants and a few washed out grown kids bits I leave abroad. So if it was all new I couldn't do that.

I start packing and making lists early. Or I did. Back in the day when going abroad was possible. In the UK your never to far from.a supermarket that sells kids clothes.

I wash wash the kids clothes if abroad and away for two weeks. Cant stand over packing any more.

Mumtobe193 · 09/08/2020 00:59

I always buy new bikinis, as a previous poster has said I too seem to always lose either the bottoms or top of every bikini I buy.

The rest of the stuff I bring is a mixture of a few new bits and bits I’ve had for years.

The majority of the clothes I pack for the kids are brand new, simply because the clothes from previous holidays no longer fit. We tend to go away at the beginning of the summer so once we’ve returned home they can wear their holiday clothes throughout the summer (weather permitting).

PhoneLock · 09/08/2020 01:06

I live in Ireland so we get about 2 weeks of good weather, we live in jeans, trousers, heavy tops, jumpers, boots. So nothing is suitable as we go to the USA every year.

What about the stuff you bought the previous year?

purpledagger · 09/08/2020 01:10

I love having new clothes for holiday. Like a previous poster, last years clothes often don't fit my children and we do go away towards the beginning of summer, so the new clothes I buy for holiday is part of their normal wardrobe.

We have a big holiday booked for Easter 2021 and I have already bought my children clothes to wear, as I'm not sure what will in stock next spring.DS has 3 pairs of shorts and 9 t shirts and DD has 6 dresses and a pair of shorts. All items are in the next size up, so they will be wearing these clothes throughout the year.

tabulahrasa · 09/08/2020 01:12

I’ve quite often bought just about full suitcases of clothes for holidays...

We don’t go abroad every year and I don’t really buy “summer” clothes if we’re not going somewhere warm, so when we do I’m usually down to about 2 changes of clothes that’ll suit actual hot weather, which works fine in Scotland - not so much for 2 weeks...

It’s not wasteful, they don’t get thrown out, they just get worn when it is warm and gradually there’s less and less that are still wearable after 2 or 3 years.

Fungster · 09/08/2020 01:13

I think it's a northern/working class thing! I'm from Lancashire and I remember getting a bollocking for daring to suggest that I wore my new "holiday shorts" 😀

I wouldn't mind but we were only going to Butlins 😁

Lipz · 09/08/2020 01:16

@PhoneLock

I live in Ireland so we get about 2 weeks of good weather, we live in jeans, trousers, heavy tops, jumpers, boots. So nothing is suitable as we go to the USA every year.

What about the stuff you bought the previous year?

Day time clothes fade from sun and would be marked from sun cream. Evening clothes would be worn here at home with a cardigan/jumper so would be well worn. Plus my weight might be a little up or down and not fit properly. Kids clothes wouldn't fit as they will have grown.
soasd · 09/08/2020 01:38

Part of a holiday is new clothes. Who wants to wear old tatty clothes on holiday

That implies that the clothes you're wearing day-to-day before your holiday are old and tatty? Weird.

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