Clothes buying

Reilly626

Do you buy the next size early while sales are on or wait for the season? We've lost our hand me downs connection for play clothes so I had to go out and buy summer wardrobes for both of them.

ccam

I wait. At this point, I have no idea when he'll be in the next size up. I'd rather wait until the season instead of have a bunch of clothes I can't use. I just wait for sales and use coupons.

piphigirl

A little bit of both. I shop consignment a lot to save money!

vic8504

I wait until the season to buy clothes for DD because I never know what she is going to be in. I always hit up the Memorial and Labor day sales at the outlets near me. Last labor day I got DD whole wardrobe for winter for like $60, with sales, coupons and my ON bucks. If I would have paid full price without any of that I was looking at close to $400 or so I think it was.
I do occasionally buy some stuff at yard sales but have to watch because some of the things I bought early for summer barely fit DD now so there is no way they are going to last until the end of September.

abbyful

We do some of each. It's only been recently I've felt comfortable trying to guess what size he'll be, when he was an infant he was growing so fast I couldn't even begin to guess what size he would be.

(For example, last summer he was in 18m but 12m long pants, this summer he's in 3T but 2T long pants. So I've been grabbing 3T long pants for fall when I see deals. I don't mind that much if they might need rolled up at the beginning of fall, I'd rather that than having to buy more halfway through winter.)

I was thrilled yesterday I bought him 3 shorts and 8 jeans/pants (5 of which are Baby Gap) for under $20 at the thrift store!

cedenton

Yeah, I've been buying ahead, but only one size...I don't want to waste money. Also, the older they get the harder it is to find good stuff at consignment sales and swaps. For boys, that is, because they wear clothes out.

N tends to stay in his clothing size for a long time so if anything he might not so much outgrow stuff as it goes out of season and it still fits, but won't the next time we're in that season. Plenty of his 18 months stuff fits fine, though it does look like he recently hit a growth spurt.

vvvvvfee

i buy one size ahead if i see a good deal or something is on clearance.

Toni79

I know some people who buy stuff at the end of the summer for the following summer!  I have no idea how anyone could guess what size the kid will be in a year from now?!?!?  Maybe it comes with experience!  But I'm only on my first, so I've still got alot to learn.

As far as when I buy ... it depends ... I haven't really come up with a system that works yet ... except I ALWAYS do sales, coupons, etc.  I generally wait until the season so I know what size to get.  But, a few weeks ago, I got a bunch of summer stuff online at target, even though we were several weeks from summer at the time!  But it was a good sale, and each peice came to $3.75.  Which isn't bad IMO since most of the stuff I saw at the consignment shop were $4-$5, and were in poor condition.  I wish I had better consignment shops near me!