Are you keeping your child's "old" clothes for the next baby?

GreenEyedGal · April 2011

I have tons (and I mean tons) of baby boy clothes. Onesies, pants, shirts, socks, ranging from newborn-12 months, you name it...I got it.

Originally I wanted to keep it all in case our next (and last) baby is a boy but damn, that's alot of clothes to keep and frankly, the big plastic tubs take up alot of space.

What do you think? Donate/sell it all and either hope next one is a girl or start from scratch if we have another boy or keep it?

While we're on the subject, what are you doing with the swing, jumperoo, playpen, etc.?

Nicole. · April 2011

I'm DEFINITELY keeping it all in case this next one is a boy- I LOVE Jake's clothes and would love to get more use out of them. We don't have much storage space, so we use space bags which help some. As for the gear...it's all stored as well

Taking up a crapload of space!

crystalgirl · April 2011

I saved it all. I'm too cheap to buy everything all over again, but I HEAR you on the space issue!

AlissaCell701 · April 2011

Yes! And all mine are also in tubs in the garage. I am saving it for our "next" baby...but if the next one is a girl I don't know what I will do with everything that is boy. I would love to have 3 kids but DH isn't really on board with that. I guess I don't really know what I will do with the stuff.

I would probably go though the tubs again and then see what stuff I LOVE and would want as keep sakes and then donate the rest.

As far as jumperoos, playpen, ect. Again save and then either sell to consignment or do a garage sale. Maybe donate to a friend who might want it.

chocolatechip06 · April 2011

We are pretty sure we are one and done so I am giving away all of DS clothes (my friend is giving me her son's clothes (size 3 and up) so essentially I am just switching sizes)

If we miraculously have another baby-DH has said I can go buy new clothes.

desabean · April 2011

This is a big issue for me too. I've kept all of them-- well, all of them that were not overly faded or stained. It is slowly taking over one of our guest rooms. I "lent" a friend our swing (I say lent because honestly I'm not sure I will get it back or if I do I think it will probably be in bad shape....) but I've kept everything else. I know if I got rid of it, I'd get knocked up immediately. (OK, I don't know that or else I would have thrown it all out the window 6 months ago, but you kwim)

GreenEyedGal · April 2011

Nicole.:
I'm DEFINITELY keeping it all in case this next one is a boy- I LOVE Jake's clothes and would love to get more use out of them. We don't have much storage space, so we use space bags which help some. As for the gear...it's all stored as well Taking up a crapload of space!

Space bags! Why didn't I think of that?!

GreenEyedGal · April 2011

desabean:
This is a big issue for me too. I've kept all of them-- well, all of them that were not overly faded or stained. It is slowly taking over one of our guest rooms. I "lent" a friend our swing (I say lent because honestly I'm not sure I will get it back or if I do I think it will probably be in bad shape....) but I've kept everything else. I know if I got rid of it, I'd get knocked up immediately. (OK, I don't know that or else I would have thrown it all out the window 6 months ago, but you kwim)

Lol! Ain't that the truth.

jenber77 · April 2011

So far I've saved it all, but when I get around to it I'm going to go through the boxes of clothes and get rid of some. I'll keep my favourites and ditch the rest. We also still have his bathtub, exersaucer, infant car seat and stroller, etc., in our storage closet.

sailor71506 · April 2011

I've saved everything. Our plan was always to have 2 (maybe 3) and I'm too cheap to buy new stuff for each kid. I made sure to get all gender neutral big stuff. However now DH is rethinking having more children. He definitely doesn't want any more soon and possibly not ever.

So now I'm considering selling our gear and most of her clothing. It's taking up a huge amount of space in our attic, and safety standards may have changed if DH decides he wants another child.

ladychicago · April 2011

We are saving all of it... There is just no way I am paying for everything all over again. We live in a condo and have very limited storage space (we are considering getting a storage unit if we don't move this summer), and we are still saving it. We don't have excess, though. If there was a lot of stuff in storage we never used or only used once, I would consider donating the excess to trim it down.

igh0318 · April 2011

Im saving everything in hopes that we can use it again. It does take up a lot of room but I just can't part with it (yet). The space bags are a great idea for clothes. We use bins too and the spare bedroom closet it filling up quickly. The gear is all in our basement for now.

schmoodle · April 2011

We kept it all. Assuming #2 arrives safely and is, in fact, a girl, I will sell or donate almost all of it (will likely keep a few baby items for nostalgia/keepsakes).

As for big ticket baby gear, I sold his infant carseat b/c I hated it and knew I wouldn't want to use it for another, and we sold the swing b/c it took up so much room. The bouncer/bouncy seat/Pack and Play we've kept and not even in storage b/c everyone we know had babies a year younger than Toodle so my BFF or SIL or someone was always using them when they were over, and now that their little ones are outrgrowing them we will hopefully be using them again soon.

dana316 · April 2011

I saved everything.

I'm way too cheap to buy new stuff (pajamas, etc), especially in light of the fact that my kids were sort of planned close together. I had no idea if they would actually BE close together, but that's how I planned it in my head, lol.

Now, baby boy is going to get new clothes, obviously...but he'll be able to wear lots of Caro's hand me downs too. I have lots of gender neutral things.

leslie&brian · April 2011

I was saving all of his clothes, but I had totes and totes of stuff. DH and I discussed it, and figured that the next baby would have to be a boy AND they would have to be born in the same season. So, we decided to sell his clothes, and if we have another boy we will just buy new stuff. We saved all of the big ticket items.

laura1 · April 2011

We saved everything from DS, and now I am saving everything from DD. DD actually did wear a fair amount of DS's clothes to start with, like sleepers. I think girls can wear the boy stuff more than the boys can wear girl stuff. I still go through DS's stuff to see if anything is acceptable for DD.

sasa625 · April 2011

I have saved everything so far... we have sooo much stuff though! I'm going to go through it all this summer and get rid of some of the stained clothes, and possibly sell some of the outfits that I didn't love as much (mostly gifts from MIL... shh). DD wasn't able to wear everything she had, and I know that we'll buy new clothes for #2 even if we have a girl (there are so many times I've said "aww, I wish DD was tiny enough to wear that" while shopping, so I know I won't be able to resist!!)

I will probably continue to save the clothes (at least the really nice ones) since I have two younger brothers who will most likely have children some day.

nicolita14w · April 2011

We kept it all-- thank goodness!

Shelley-Bean · April 2011

I'm keeping the gender neuteral ones, and some of the really cure outfits that I have 2 of, I'll keep one and either sell/donate the other.

I haven't stopped using anything big yet, so I haven't had to make that decision. My gut says to keep one/sell one, because the chance of me having twins again is astronomically small.

jenwill · April 2011

crystalgirl:
I saved it all. I'm too cheap to buy everything all over again, but I HEAR you on the space issue!

Ditto.

pamela-matt · April 2011

DH just pulled all of our stuff out of the attic to start washing. I think we had 10 tubs and that is not counting gear. We saved everything that was not stained. I am so thankful we did even though we have been holding on to some of it for three years. I don't want to put all that money out again.

ALY1981 · April 2011

I'm keeping everything! I went gender neutral on the baby gear so that won't be an issue for #2 (hopefully) and Ill be keeping all clothes, socks,burp cloths etc unless they are stained.

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