do you knwo anyone who DOESNT hand clothes down from kid to kid

[codJane]

in the same family?

i ahev a supicion abtou a mate of mine

[RosaLuxembourg]

I have three DDs and they ALL wear hand me downs. My neighbour has a daughter two years older than DD1 and gives me HUGE bags of her hardly-worn outgrown clothes. So I just buy each of them a couple of special outfits a year and the rest are all secondhand.

[jamDOHnut]

no

dd is 4 years older than ds although they did share a GAP fleece for a while

[nishana]

Dd wears ds' clothes- although I gratefully accept all the girly stuff that ppl give. Clothes is clothes- they only get a bit of wear at baby stage. My friends and I share out all our baby clothes- some are getting their 3rd wearing now. And why not?

[cerys]

I have 2 DDs and a DS. The DDs have had loads of lovely clothes from 2 of my friends and my SiL. Stuff from shops I could never have afforded.
DS has also had loads of stuff from other friends with older boys.
I have one friend with 2 DDs and another with a DS and a baby DD so the clothes have new homes lined up! There is one girls' jacket which must be on about the 6th owner by now and it still looks lovely.

[onlyjoking9329]

i have three kis and have never been able to pass stuff down, i have twin girls and one DS. i do pass stuff onto mate thou

[expeLYRAmus]

I only pass on the stuff that's still in good condition. That way DS2 still has to have some new stuff.

[Pitchounette]

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[FillydoraTonks]

god mine are frequently in the same clothes at the same approx time (I mean not actual time, you know what i mean...)

no thats wrong sometimes they are in the same clothes at the same time.

[sweetkitty]

DD1 is a July babe who is 18 mo older than DD2 who is a January babe so wherever possible DD2 gets DD1 handmedowns. She probably has half and half. I kept all the really nice unstained stuff I love seeing DD2 in a dress that DD1 used to wear and I loved. If this one is a girl I will be totally sorted.

When I was young I always had second hand clothes from my Mum's friends daughters I did hate it though.

[Botbot]

I'm the eldest of two, and the oldest of all my cousins too, so I hardly ever had hand-me-downs. But occasionally my granny's next-door-neighbour gave me a bag of her dd's stuff, and it was such a treat! Having everything new is overrated, I reckon. DD's stuff is being carefully hoarded for whoever wants it next.

[Hulababy]

If I ever do have a second child then there will be no hand me downs from DD1 to pass on. We got rid of them all quite quickly after she grew out of them, especially baby stuff, as we simply had no sotarge room in the apartment we lived in - no loft or anything to keep them in.

[MadEyeMisdee]

lyra, because dd1+2 are the same size.

[expeLYRAmus]

Why wouldn't you? This is how I justify buying most of DS1's clothes from Baby Gap, so it will still be in good condition by the time DS2 inherits them. They're both summer babies, two years apart, so it works out quite nicely.

[Tamum]

Hardly anything to be honest because dd is such a girly girl, but I do hand their things on, and she does get the odd t-shirt.

[JARM]

Ive only managed to hand down certain things because my DD2 has red hair and pink on the top seriously clashes with her hair, therefore DD2 has had mainly new tops.

I plan on handing down as much as possible if this baby is a girl though.

[HappyMummyOfOne]

Only have the one but I do pass his clothes onto my friend who has a younger boy. I personally buy everything new (shopaholic in me cant pass a kids clothes store) but thats just me, wouldnt really have anybody to give me things anyway as all DS's cousins are a lot older.

[FuriousGeorge]

Nearly all the dd's clothes are hand me downs or charity shop finds & I am continually told how well they are dressed.In fact,2 of my friends who live near to each other,pass clothes around in a circle as we have 6 girls between us.We always laugh at the fact that the children have all gone to the same pre school,so the staff there must have seen the same outfits on half a dozen children.

[lucykate]

ds is the recipient of loads of hand me downs from his cousins, have hardly had to buy him anything, just filled in the gaps. even his shoes are hand me downs from a friend atm, but i have a bag in the loft of about 10 pairs of size 7, 7.5 and 8's, all still in good nick, all clarks.

dd is the provider of hand me downs as she's the oldest girl, he stuff gets passed on to her 3yr old cousin.

one of my sil's is not really a hand me down person though, she prefers new.

i regularly go round the local charity shops and buy clothes for the dc's, and car boot sales for toys. we got a wooden elc garage for ds for £3.

[nomdeplume]

I don't hand down.

DS1 & 2 have, until recently, been the same size in clothes. They have never 'shared' or had hand me downs because they have always had very different styles.

DD was born 8 years after DS2 and so a) it was too late for her to have any hand me downs from him as the age gap was so huge, and b) she is a girl.

[DrNortherner]

My ds gets hand me downs from his cousin, it's fabbola.

I know a woman who has 2 ds's and she does not hand down and openly admits it. She wants to make them both the same and spend equal amounts on both. She bought them both a house when hey were born. Yes, a HOUSE.

[MadEyeMisdee]

dd1 clothes dont generally get handed down to dd2.

[nooka]

I'm the youngest of four and hardly had anything new to wear until I was almost a teenager. As a result I rarely had clothes that I would have chosen, and have lots of sad memories of going to school in grey socks that all the other girls (with their nice holey white socks) laughed at. As a result I pass very little down from ds to dd. Also they are almost the same size and completely different colouring. What suits ds would not suit dd at all. And besides I love buying her clothes!