I am so torn, I have a son who is a little over two and am about to have a little girl. Clearly his clothes wont work for her. But what should I do with all of his adorable cute clothes? Store them for the possibility that maybe in a couple years we decide to have a 3rd (which may or may not be a boy), donate them, or offer them to people who would probably be overwhelmed by 2+ years worth of baby clothes.
What should I do!
Re: moms of 2+ children
After our second son was born, I decided to condense the amount of clothes I had (we had a lot). Partly because one was born in Sept. the other in July, so the sizes were off. I started with 6 rubbermaid bins and ended up with two. One was keepsake clothes that had sentimental value, the other was keepsake stuff.
DS2 is three years old now and I'm preggers with DS#3. We've bought new stuff but not as much. Just the basics and few of them too. This is our last child so I don't want to go over board.
Lurker chiming in. I exchange all of DD's clothes on www.thredup.com. Every time she outgrows a box of clothes, I list it on thred up, and then I can buy a new box of clothes in a bigger size for about $15 ($10 plus shipping). You could trade in all your boy clothes for girl clothes for really cheap!
I've always had really great success with quality, too, but I'm very picky about who I buy from. Many of the boxes I've received even had brand new clothes in them, with the tags still on!
I went through all of DD's clothes and kept only my favorites and the sentimental outfits. The rest went to my niece. The second we found out we were having a girl, my sister began packing up what her DD outgrew and sending it on to me. Some of it I recognize. Some of it is "new." Now as DD outgrows stuff, I continue to hold onto the favorites and send the rest to my niece. I know my sister will pass stuff back along to us, and it saves us from having to store it for 4 years.
I held onto DS's clothes until I knew #3 was a girl. Then I went through and only kept a handful and donated the rest. I will probably go through what I pulled out to save after #3 is here (make sure she really is a girl) to do a second donation.