Handing down clothes

When Zamara was a baby, I religiously kept almost everything she wore / used as we were absolutely planning more babies.

Now that we have Katerina however, I'm surprised to find that there's quite a lot of Zamara's stuff that's not suitable. They're only 20 months apart - so about 4 months different in seasons - but K is on the large size for her age and Zamara has always been a midget. Thus, size vs. season wise in clothes needs, they've been nearly polar opposites (iykwim) Thankfully I have enough borderline stuff, and have been given some other clothes, that we're not in desperate need.... but that's not what this post is about anyway Laughing

Rather, for those with more than one child of the same sex... realistically, how much gets reused by subsequent children? Zamara's fairly hard on her clothes to begin with, plus a lot of her stuff (particularly sz 1+) has been bought secondhand... and I'm just not sure it's going to last through what use K could get from it, let alone subsequent children. I'm going through and trying to both pack away and declutter, and I'm not sure how much clothes to hang on to for any more babies we may have. My experience with these two tells me I'd be good to get rid of a good portion of it.... but my luck my next baby will prove me wrong, again

What do mums here do?

I was given a huge box of hand me downs that are just wonderful - A has worn almost everything so far, and I'm finding it great to have 'play clothes" that I don't mind if she crawls on concrete in etc.

I am passing most of the best stuff (second hand and stuff i bought new) on to a friend with a 4mth old, on the proviso that it comes back if we have another girl...

I've kept unisex tiny baby clothes for next time.

Yeah, I've kept all the baby clothes regardless as we didn't find out the flavour of either child so most things are unisex It's the 00's and up that's the problem... and I'm starting to suspect it'll be a moot point anyway as they may well end up in the same size at the same time! As it is, Z still fits size 0 pants (albeit more like capris) and K's a perfect fit in size 0 now But I keep telling myself she'll slim down when she figures out crawling....

I put the girls special stuff (coming home outfits etc.) in their memory boxes.

I've never kept any little baby stuff coz after each pregnancy I wasn't planning on having another any time soon lol! By the time I got preg with the gremlins Maya was 3 and I figured by the time the gremlins get to 3 that stuff will be really dated so I only kept a few key things. Have kept way more of the gremlins stuff, pretty much from 12mo on which is when I found out I was preg. I have no idea how much she'll actually wear, they're similar to your girls in that they're 4 mths apart season wise but lil miss is tiny so who knows. She does have a couple of dresses that were theirs as little babies and that I gave to a friend for her daughter then got given back after I had her which is nice, it's cute seeing her in the same things they wore.

I probably won't keep much of the stuff they have now, or of Maya's stuff from now coz the older they get the longer they fit stuff for and the harder they are on it.

Oh but the exception is school uniforms - at $75 a dress they are bloody well being handed down!