DH is selling all the kids stuff

CrystalDaun · May 2011

I'm kind of annoyed by it but I understand his intentions (kinda) :-) He cleaned out the garage and shed and we have 12 bins of kids clothes from newborn up to 3T. My friend Liz has 3 more of my bins that I gave her for her DD to use that she plans on returning soon since her daughter is growing out of them. DH said they are just taking up way to much room. We have a Once Upon A Child store about 4 blocks from our house. He wants me to fold everything in the bins so he can take them over there and let them decide what to buy off of us. Then he wants to have a garage sale to sell the rest. He told me to pick out the things I want to keep and I only get 2 bins! We won't be finding out baby #3's gender til later on in the summer so he said we'd put the money aside from selling everything and just buy new. I get it that it's taking up so much room but this is why I saved it...incase we were going to have another so we wouldn't have to buy new.

Don't get me wrong, I love to shop and it's nice he's giving me the opportunity to shop again. Shopping for baby clothes is fun. I think I'm just emotional and hormonal because it makes me sad to see the clothes go. :-( But he's right, they are taking up a ridiculous amount of room and his mom, my sister and the kids god mother constantly shop for them. They each get a weeks worth of clothes for christmas & birthdays and random new outfits here at there whenever the ladies go shopping, plus whatever I buy. That's how we've accumulated 15 (in total) bins in less then 3 years.

sweetpea2003 · May 2011

Honestly? I would wait 10 weeks and find out what you are having before you purge. THEN keep your 2 bins. It seems silly to do this when you are already pregnant with #3 but don't know the sex.

The new stuff is going to take up as much room as the old stuff. I have a hard time seeing how getting rid of things only to go buy more new stuff solves any issues.

AutumnBride929 · May 2011

I agree with PP. It seems silly to sell that stuff to OUAC and then have a garage sale when you'll only be getting a small amount of money back; probably enough to purchase a tiny fraction of new clothes compared to the amount you sold. They've been in storage for a couple years, what's another 10 weeks? lol I plan on selling all of DD's and DS' outgrown clothes at a consignment sale this fall but if I found out I was KU before then (God forbid), I would hold onto them.

criticalmass · May 2011

I think you should find out the sex, and then keep what you need for the new baby and sell what you don't need. Then you can use the extra money you make to buy new clothes for the older kids that can be handed down to the little one.

moonfaerie · May 2011

I don't see your H's point at all, actually. I was with him when I was reading how much stuff you have, until I saw you are pg! You're not going to get that much from a yard sale, and, you can sell what you won't be using after you find out. It seems like a total waste of time to go through all those clothes and have a yard sale just to buy more stuff in a couple of months. I could see if you weren't pg, and were on the fence about having more kids, or you were waiting five years before TTC, but his idea just sounds like a total waste of resources since you are already pg.

CrystalDaun · May 2011

This is kind of how I was feeling about all of it. I wanted to keep it all and he's so set on selling it. I told him if he's forcing this on me I'm taking all of the nice denim for both sex's out since the jeans cost the most. My neighbor told me I could stash some stuff at his house LOL. He knows how set on getting rid of all of it DH is. I have no idea why he's so set on a June Garage sale instead of an end of July Garage sale. Men. Don't get me wrong,....just like most of us...I won't pass up an opportunity to shop for adorable baby clothes but I am frustrated I went through all this time of packing things away, labeling bins and storing it for him to say "it's gotta go"...... :-(

tpandr08 · May 2011

We waited until after we found out that #2 was a boy. Then I went through Riley's 5 tubs of clothes (all for only 1 year!) and kept the gender neutral stuff and the "special" stuff. Picked out some nicer stuff to hand down to cousins, then took 3 tubs to the resale shop. They bought 2 tubs worht of stuff and then we used that to buy things we needed like bedding and what not.

I would wait a little longer!

CrystalDaun · May 2011

I'm hoping to wait longer. He hasn't brought the garage sale back up and as long as he doesn't....I'M NOT. LOL. I would rather do just that, find out what we're having, go through everything, sell what isn't weather appropriate and what is of the opposite gender and take the money I get from that to buy new stuff. DH gets these idea's but he quickly forgets about them 'cause he moves on to something else so I'm hoping he moves on. I know we'll still have to buy quite a bit new stuff since DD was born in August, all her NB and 0-3 mo clothes were very summery and baby #3 is due in December. DS was born in April and his clothes were also springy. I'll need some fleece and warmer items 'cause winters here get so cold maybe I can appease him by at least getting rid of the flimsy outfits that def. won't fit either gender for the weather...that should weed out a bin or two. :-)

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