to give away DD's old clothes to make room for DS (due in May)?

[Lazylou]

Dh thinks I should sell all DD's old bits on Ebay (I did toy with the idea of doing it here but decided against it) but tbh, I've never sold anything on there and I am, by no means, technically minded enough to put things on there.

I have a good friend whose DD (my goddaughter) is about 2 years younger than my DD. Anything I have that will fit, I am passing on to her as we are receiving donations from others for DS and I just need to make space. I gave another friend some baby girl bits for her SIL as she has 2 boys.

I would feel a bit mean selling this stuff on because we haven't really had to spend a fortune clothing DS but I can see DH's point about selling them because we are not flush with me out of work for the entirety of my pg.

So, I suppose this is more of a WWYD rather than an AIBU question. When it comes to de-cluttering, DH is a nightmare and hoardes everything, especially old radios . Our flat is tiny, or it certainly will be with 4 of us living here and we desperately need the room. We're not planning on having any more DC after DS is born so it seems a bit pointless to me to keep all DD's stuff in the hope that I can sell it on. I would rather clear the space and then say to him about the effort I have made to get rid of some of the stuff we don't actually need anymore.

The other factor affecting this is that my friend is on her own (although I'm not suggesting for one second that lone parents cannot afford to kit their kids out) and I feel like I'm helping in some small way.

As it is, I have managed to re-use most of my DD's baby things for DS. I don't want to get into a row with DH about this so any thoughts are gratefully appreciated!

i have sold some of my clothes on ebay recently and i found it wildly exciting ( i need to get out more). it isn't hard to do, you could just create bundles of clothes and sell them really quickly.

i always sell my dc's clothing on ebay. they sell really well as bundles. and creates a bit of cash to treat the kids to a day out, or a designer outfit or something we wouldn't normally have the money for. I give away anythng i think is unsaleable on freecycle....

my dd's last bundle

ds's last bundle

that raised enough money to buy both kids a bike.....

You really don't need to be that technically minded to put things on eBay (and you can visit the eBay section of this board for advice).

However, it does sound as if you feel that giving the clothes to your friend is the right thing to do.

Perhaps you could compromise: if any of those clothes are designer/top-end brands (eg Boden) sell those ones on Ebay, and pass the more 'ordinary' (but still nice) clothes on to your friend?

Maybe you could sell some and give some away. I would probably look at what you have and work out roughly how much you are likely to make (just compare to similar items on ebay) and see if its worth it versus how much you need the money.I sold a load of stuff on ebay before christmas and made a couple of hundred pounds.

I am keeping my absolute favourite stuff, incase dc3 is another girl, selling some bundles on ebay and chucking some of the handed down worth once and suitable only for nursery wear stuff into the recycling bins. am also making dh clear out his shed, its a huge shed, our only storage and we haven't seen the farking floor in ages nevermind been able to get into it!

you need the room, same as us, the ebay selling would give you some cash, do what you can be bothered or if he's that determined tell him he can do it and while he's at it he can see if there is a market for some old radios on ebay as well!

Sell the designer stuff, and give the not designer but still good condition stuff to your friend.

There's very few of us who would turn down the offer of good clothes, single parent or not.

And selling on ebay is easy peasy. You can follow the instructions on the website and do it on-line, or download turbolister, do it offline and then send the lot up to ebay in a oner. I know it's a bit scary at 1st, but once you dive in it's not too hard, I promise!

oh and once you've started selling stuff you'll soon be looking at things in your house 'differently' trying to work out if they're worth something to someone somewhere!!!

you'll also become addicted to watching to see if people are bidding on your items and mildly put out when they don't all rush to do so!!

well, if you're anything like me