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

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.

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.

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.

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.

lyra, because dd1+2 are the same size.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

no

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

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.