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borrowing baby clothes??
If you plan to have more children, are you going to borrow any clothes to family or friends? Is this just standard to do? I definitely do not want to give away any of my DD clothing since we want to have more...
The thing is, we are expecting a niece anytime now which will make her and my DD 3 months apart...and I don't want to be rude. We did not buy/get many newborn items, but have a lot of 3 month stuff! DD is just starting to outgrow these items and I am trying to figure out if I should store them or pack them up for my niece to use (unless she is really small she should be able to wear the 3 month stuff this summer). Thoughts? TIA
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Re: borrowing baby clothes??
Personally, I would hold on to them.
When ds#1 outgrew his clothes I packed them up and stored them in my basement. I didn't offer anything to family or friends because I knew we were going to have another baby and wasn't going to give things away only to ask for them back or buy new again.
We are done having kids - I told my SIL that if her next is a boy she can have all our clothes if she wants (and she does!), so I'm storing them in my basement again. If her next one is a girl, we'll donate everything we have. I'm not storing them for anyone else!
If your planning on having more kids I'd keep them. We kept all of DS's baby clothes although that didn't help because I had a girl this time. I don't know if we will have more kids or not so I plan on keeping DD's clothes as well until we decide. If we decide not to have any more kids then I will either give them away if I know someone or donate them.
Lending items out to family/friends tends to be a nightmare. There's just too much going on with a new baby to have to also keep track of which clothes are owned and which are borrowed. There's also the possibility that they'll be ruined. Formula, breastmilk and spit-up all stain.
Say things get mixed up... would you be ok with only getting back some of your clothes, getting back the wrong clothes, or possibly having all of your clothes returned but some have stains?
Personally, I wouldn't lend out DS' clothes. It's too much hassle. We're only having one child, so I'm giving most of DS' clothes and gear to a co-worker who is expecting twins (I'm keeping a few sentimental items). She knows to pass on anything she doesn't want because once it leaves my house, I don't want it back.
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My sister had a friend that had a daughter right after hers. So they shared a ton of clothes for the first year or so. My sister would give the friend the clothes and eventually the friend would give it back so my sister could give it to me or somene else. Almost anything that girl touched came back looking like crap. Or it was missing pieces of matching items. We have all sorts of PJ sets that have missing parts becuase of this girl.
I agree with the PP saying to give stuff away that you don't want/like and never expect it back. We kept all our stuff because we were planning on having more and as luck had it we had girl #2.
All of my friends had kids years before us and most of them are boys. The system they worked out (and I'm not involved in) is pretty easy. Everyone puts their initals into the clothing on the tag and passes it along to the next boy. Thankfully none of the boys have been the exact same age, so it's work well.
When Friend A's kid grows out of his stuff, she packed it all up into the container (both hers and friend B's stuff), and gives it to me. I then have A and B clothes and add mine.
When B needed clothes back to give to a coworker, it was pretty easy to seperate out her clothes.
All of my friends had kids years before us and most of them are boys. The system they worked out (and I'm now involved in) is pretty easy. Everyone puts their initals into the clothing on the tag and passes it along to the next boy. Thankfully none of the boys have been the exact same age, so it's work well.
When Friend A's kid grows out of his stuff, she packed it all up into the container (both hers and friend B's stuff), and gives it to me. I then have A and B clothes and add mine.
When B needed clothes back to give to a coworker, it was pretty easy to seperate out her clothes.