For those of you who buy new clothes each season:
What months for you do you tend to buy your "seasonal" clothes? For yourself or your kids?
I've always just bought new clothes for my kids "as needed" and for me "as wanted", since it's not like I grow and need new sizes, lol. I think buying in seasons, or even twice a year, might be a more efficient way to do it. I've never paid attention to when stores release new seasons of clothes.
Re: s/o clothes...
I buy in seasons because I wait for a really awesome coupon (I get tons from Gap, Old Navy and Gymboree). Usually there will be a 40% off one and I just buy everything then.
I also get sale notices and coupons for Olly and get shoes there
DS 3.12.08
DD 7.11.09
DD 8.01.13
DS2 - Oct 2010 (my VBAC baby!)
W : 01.11.13
#3 : due 11.02.15
Thats for ds. I just buy what i want whenever i want it for me. I do pack up winter clothes before summer and visaversa so that its like i get to.shop.through the boxes again lol.
I just buy at the start of each season. I get back-to-school clothes in August (and we use some of this through the winter, we'll just layer with long sleeved shirts), then I'll shop again around December or so for some winter stuff for her. Then usually we need some new t-shirts for spring, since she outgrows the ones from the summer. Then I do shorts and stuff as soon as the weather turns warm. I can never shop for the "next season" once it's on sale, I never know her size.
As far as I go, I shop new each season for me too. But that's only because I've lost 35 pounds, so nothing fits from season to season.. or from previous ones. Once I'm at goal weight, I'll have a more solid wardrobe and won't need to do that as much.
If I do buy something, I shop the JBF sales at the beginning of each season - sometimes those things still have tags even! I've found entire Gymboree outfits for $6! For myself, well, I used to be JCP fan and went at the beginning of the school year. I've kind of been wearing maternity shirts for 3 yrs though...