Now that we have 3 girls, everyone always says "oh you are so lucky to have all girls so you can hand down their clothing."
This is usually followed by a loud snort by Jed and an obnoxious coughing fit.
Oh sure, I hand them down alright - just not to my own kids.
I prefer new.
I am a snob.
I am okay with that.
I have only kept each girls' coming home outfits, and 2 sets of the Oilily Matroushka Doll dress and tights set...and have bought 2 more USED sets of the same off eBay. That is all I have saved.
I put this used Oilily set Astrid yesterday and fell in love all over again. Somethings are worth saving...but not much.
Do you save your kids clothing. Do you hand-me-down to your own kids? Or are you a new clothing only snob like myself?
xoxo, t.
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Astrid is just splendid ... it was worth saving the outfit!
Cole does get some of Holden's hand-me-downs ... the cute stuff. I do love seeing him in some of those things and remembering Holden in them too. Of course, boys have minimal options of cuteness (new or other)so if I had a girl I may change my tune!
That said, I do have plenty of snobbishness .... no hokey commercial junk (transformers, sponge bob, etc), no pretending to be a college or professional sports star / fan, no shirts with stupid sayings .... maybe I'm taking all the cool and fun out of being a boy?!
Goodness, she so cute!!!
I kept all the baby clothes for my second girly, but I stopped doing that a few years ago. Said second girly has her own style and needs new clothes too! So... I guess... I'm a snob too =)!
Not too many hand-me-downs here either and I have 3 boys so you can imagine the comments. I save only my absolute favorites. I like the little ones to coordinate so new is a must!
I have one small tub of clothing keepsakes for each of my 3 children saved back, and only have just recently started saving some of my oldest DD's things back for my youngest DD otherwise, I sold everything of theirs...the 2 sisters look completely different from each other and have their own look. Plus...mommy likes to buy new :-p
We have 3 boys and one girl and we hand me down and down and down until it's just sad lookin'. No, yes, we do that, but we also buy each kid new stuff, because they each need new things...hellOH. Our girl gets all things new. Such a diva.
I keep the basics to hand down like jeans, denim skirts, and solid turtlenecks. That's about it though. Nina does end up with some hand-me-downs from Elise simply because she is exactly one size smaller, so as soon as Elise outgrows something, Nina gets excited that she can now wear it. It isn't really an intentional hand-me-down, things just move from Elise's side of the closet to Nina's sometimes. The baby gets very few hand-me-downs though, mostly just Hanna playdresses since they wear like iron!
There is no-one here to hand down to... and won't be - EVER. I have no problem putting HMD's on little M - but they must have style. I do lots of handing down outside the house - to other mommy friends.
As for keepers - the blue boy onesie from k-m*rt Muriel was wearing when she was handed to me in China is a keeper as is the outfit she wore on adoption day. Everything else makes its way out the door.
Nope. No hand-me-downs here. My girls are 6 years apart, so clothing would be out o' style anyway and my older boys, even when they were little, destroyed their clothing promptly upon putting it on so there was no way it could be handed to anyone. I do not think I would hand things down anyway because I consign all the stuff that's not Ebay-able. We have a FAB consignment shop here that I big pink puffy heart love so much.
I do save certain keepsakes (1 year portrait outfits, just certain special outfits), but I seal those up and put them away. I have a Rothschild plaid wool coat from when I was a baby that my mom saved for my girls. Things like that are just precious to save. :)
Astrid looks SO fab in the Oilily.
We get a ton of hand me downs from the next door neighbor, and they are Georgia's favorite clothes. I also love picking up quality brands at the local kids consignment store from time to time. However, we love mj and boden, so we end up having very eclectic "one of a kind" outfits to say the least. Boys wear their clothes into the ground, so we rarely buy used for Lucas (and thank god for uniforms:)) When we are done with our clothes they go directly across the street to spread the love.
With that said, if we could buy more of what I love new, I certainly would. I'm a sucker for oilily and all the finest, like you my dear:)
I too am a S-N-O-B. That stands for Shit No, Only Brand new. That said, my kids have WAY too many clothes. You can't relate, can you?
Not many hand-me-downs here either. And we get the exact same comment about how nice it must be to not have to buy any clothes since we have 4 girls! *snort* I do keep some basics and just a few sentimental things from babyhood, but those don't get worn again anyway. And that's it. My logic is that I don't have the space to store the old clothes anyway. It's much more efficient to buy new and sell later.
I have saved most of my kids clothes, but have found with the girls I use very little of it because I like them to match, and I like them to match in MJ! I am going to start consigning more because I have bins upon bins of clothes & that is really not useful. We do pass down some basics like layering t-shirts or PJs, but even though my girls are 3 years apart, they are only 1 size apart, so some things migrate from one side of the closet to the other like another commenter said. For my boys, even though they are 7 years apart, I have enjoyed putting baby Drew in some of Jack's baby clothes...especially the smaller sizes since he only wore most things a couple of times...
Your girls are always adorable!
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