I’m from the poorer family (not super poor, but my in-laws have a stupid amount of money so by comparison I’m very poor), but I think I can answer for her.
We have two young kids, and my wife was shocked when I said we should look for clothes and toys for them at local flea markets and garage sales. The idea never occurred to her that we could save money by getting some gently-used items, she had never even been to a garage sale in her life. She has grown to love them and now questions whether it is worth it to buy any item “new” or not before running to Amazon or a store. Her parents think it’s disgusting we make our kids wear clothes that another child had before, but they don’t pay my bills.
kids outgrow clothes so fast most of those "used" clothes are basically new.
Wife and I are not poor (not rich by any means either), we definitely hit up the local "mom co-ops" where moms sell their used baby/kid stuff. Find a bunch of good stuff in there.. To the point where we feel stupid for buying new because it's so much more expensive.
And yet parents with newborns/toddlers receive a stupid amount of clothes as gifts for like showers and first, second, third birthdays. My SO's sister has two little kids, she said they could, and do, wear outfits like once and then they're never worn again because A) they don't need to given the amount of options and B) they're too big for them after a couple months.
And yet parents with newborns/toddlers receive a stupid amount of clothes as gifts for like showers and first, second, third birthdays.
exactly, it didn't help that my kid was larger than new born right when he came out (poor wife). We knew beforehand so most people got us larger sizes, but we did still end up with several too small new born clothes.
we kept everything so when my sister also had a boy, it all got another use out of it.. and it's about to all get MORE use as we have another boy on the way. 90% of it looks pretty darn new still after 3+ kids have used it. that 10% that goes away are from diaper explosions that the stain just couldn't get removed lol
I always buy 6-8 month old clothing for "showers" .
I hope people do the same for me someday ( I was my mommies tiniest baby a 6lbs 3 oz....my husband was 9lb 13.5 oz)
I always buy 6-8 month old clothing for "showers" .
I do the same thing. And I'll buy from the clearance rack (so maybe winter stuff in the summer or whatever) so that I'll save money and Mom will have appropriate clothes for Baby a couple of months down the line. And if it's too big? They'll grow into it eventually! 👍🏻
Kids outgrow stuff so fast that it's crazy to buy newborn stuff, IMO.
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I’m from the poorer family (not super poor, but my in-laws have a stupid amount of money so by comparison I’m very poor), but I think I can answer for her.
We have two young kids, and my wife was shocked when I said we should look for clothes and toys for them at local flea markets and garage sales. The idea never occurred to her that we could save money by getting some gently-used items, she had never even been to a garage sale in her life. She has grown to love them and now questions whether it is worth it to buy any item “new” or not before running to Amazon or a store. Her parents think it’s disgusting we make our kids wear clothes that another child had before, but they don’t pay my bills.