Buying new holiday clothes for each trip

[wingingit1987]

I was talking to a friend today about our upcoming trip next month. She kept saying how she thought it was odd that we don’t buy new clothes for everyone for every trip we take. For context, it’s a UK break we are going to- visiting a seaside resort for a week and a day Alton Towers before we head home. I feel like weather wise it will be the exact same climate as we have in sunny Scotland, so other than a few bits like swimming gear for the kids who have outgrown things- we really don’t need much. My friend says that she buys all new clothes for every trip she takes.

I came away wondering if I’m being a bit miserable but I just don’t see the need for a whole new wardrobe for each of us for a sake of a trip that’s a4 hour drive along the road.

Your friend is an idiot. HTH!

Some of my holiday clothes are at least 15 years old because they only get worn on holiday and when we have done good weather…in Scotland that’s about 2 weeks a year! I keep it all in a storage box and when we go on holiday I put the contents of the box into my case…80% packed!

No...your friend is wasteful and has a shopping problem.

I know people that do it, but personally no, I don’t buy anything just because we’re going on holiday. I might buy a couple more t-shirts so I don’t have to do laundry for just over a week. Or I might buy something needed for a particular climate or activity. But generally I buy relatively little clothing and on an as needed basis.

My teen dd asked my last week when the last time i updated my wardrobe was 😂I wear clothes until they need binning.

but i do buy the children new clothes for holidays… because they are growing.

If everyone was like your friend, one day there'd be no space for people because the world would be full of last holidays clothes in landfill. It's very wasteful but unfortunately, due to cheap clothes from Primark and the like, more common.

Your friend is nuts. Why would you feel miserable because you don't do the same unnecessary thing that she does

If you need new clothes, buy them. But if not, don't, just use what you have.

I usually buy new knickers if I'm going on holiday and maybe a new dress, not a whole new wardrobe!

I always buy a couple of new items and I go away a lot.

Thanks everyone. I do pick up anything I think we might need- swimwear or some new dresses for my daughters for the evening entertainment but I’m generally someone who buys in the sales or vinted. I don’t know if it’s because we have a larger family than most- buying everyone a whole new load of clothing at once would be such an undertaking. I tend to buy anything new as and when we need it.

I probably buy new for the children - but only because they are growing so what fit them last summer holiday won't fit them now. And then I'll get a few new dresses for myself.

Weekend breaks in the UK would probably mean a new outfit each, but not a whole new weekend wardrobe

Well if they go away once a year at the start of summer and she buys new summer clothes because clast years are too small, and they then wear them all summer, I guess it makes sense.

If she buys a load of holiday clothes that she then chucks out because they're no longer on holiday, she's the crazy one.

YANBU. I wish this whole tiktok "haul" trend will die a death, before the planet does.

On my holiday photos I’m wearing the same clothes for the past 10years 😀

I might not for a UK break, although tbh if it was a week I probably still would. I would never go abroad with no new clothes and I don’t know anyone who would.

Likewise! I was feeling aggrieved about one of my favourite t-shirts not lasting as long as I felt it should. Then I spotted it in a holiday photo from 2016...

I do buy a couple of new bits to go away. Just because I want to. When I was a kid though my mother would buy an entire new wardrobe of summer clothes for us kids but they would have to last till the next summers holiday!

Not something we ever do - for UK or overseas trips. DCs always have clothes in the next size up (handed down from cousins or DC2 gets them from DC1) or I pick them up some bits from sales throughout the year. But no specific shopping needed for a holiday. We've only done that for going abroad to very different climates, eg Vegas in the summer or Iceland. I generally wear the same single swimsuit I use all year and the same summer clothes I use in the UK, and the same knickers I've been wearing.

Does she go on holiday once every 5-10 years?

Personally I have a set of clothes that I only wear in a hot climate and if lucky drag out if there is heat wave in the UK. For UK based holidays I look at what I have got and may refresh the odd item(usually - do I have the right shoes) Certainly would not be looking at replacing the entire wardrobe. Your friend is off the mark or wealthy.

I think it’s a working-class/lower-middle thing.

Your friend is bonkers!
More money than sense.

God no. Unless the kids don't have stuff that still fits. But I buy them stuff throughout the year as it's needed. I'm really trying to buy the absolute minimum this year unless I see something I love. I'm trying not too look.

We travel a lot. I'd rather take a few threadbare items to leave behind. Things that are fit for the bin as we do tend to buy stuff when we are away wherever we go. So this week we was in Bath. I bought a komono so ideally I would be organised and take holey socks to bin. Otherwise I can't pack my purchases ( especially abroad as the case always weighs a ton more on the return.

I have a super posh friend who is a bit of a clothes horse. She takes her old clothes on holiday and mostly ditches them at the end of the week. Her logic is that a holiday is a time to relax, chill and not give a toss about anything. (She is though a fan of a well placed scarf to hide any spills on a two day old top!)

I always have to buy one or two cheap bits for the kids (purely because they’re growing like weeds) but no your friend is absolutely ridiculous!