Sell or keep?
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Topic: Sell or keep?
Posted By: MamaMore
Subject: Sell or keep?
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 9:22am
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I'm doing a bit of a clear out and don't know whether to sell my baby wrap or keep it. I know I can get a good price for it but it'd be something nice to pass on to my daughter when she has her own baby (omg eek!).
What would you do? Also has anyone regretted selling their wedding dress? |
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Posted By: fire_engine
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 9:35am
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Depends what kind of wrap. If it was something hand-knitted then I'd keep it. If it was something you bought and don't have a strond emotional attachement to, then probably move it on! ------------- Mum to two wee boys |
Posted By: MamaMore
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 9:41am
| It's not hand knitted or anything like that. It's a type of baby carrier. |
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 9:59am
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I haven't sold my wedding dress yet, still hasn't been drycleaned since the day I wore it. Will get sold eventually - never going to wear it again. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 10:03am
Id never sell my wedding dress, my mum still has hers 
I wont be keeping my wrap after we are done having kids, it will get sold on. Things like hand knitted baby clothes/booties/mittens, they stay in the family My kids have all worn stuff that my nana and mum knitted for my brothers and I when we were babies, so its really special.------------- |
Posted By: fire_engine
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 10:08am
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Ah, if it's just a baby carrier - sell. Definitely. By the time she has kids, there will be heaps more of the market. ------------- Mum to two wee boys |
Posted By: monkey33
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 10:27am
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DH won't let me sell my wedding dress - I got it drycleaned as it the bottom of it was really dirty but have yet to get it boxed. It is hanging in my Mum's spare room wardrobe and I'll eventually get round to it.
I would sell the baby wrap, but keep other things like first outfits, first shoes, favourite toy etc. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: amme_eilyk
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 10:32am
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I wont be selling my wedding dress, I need to get it drycleaned but am too scared in case it gets damaged.
I would sell the baby wrap, things will have probably changed when your daughter has kids. I'd keep clothes though as they are definitely handy. |
Posted By: Renee & Lauren
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 11:06am
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Wedding dress - I'm not going to sell it until at least we go to Fiji / Raro or somewhere like that to renew our vows as I want to do it in my wedding dress again. ------------- http://lilyslim.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Kellyfer
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 11:58am
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I will probably never sell my wedding dress - I remember how much I loved gettting my mum's one out when I was little. Also it was made for me as a gift, so it would be a little insulting to turf it!
With baby stuff, I'd be inclined to keep the stuff that's been made for you by family members, or things like favourite toys, first outfits etc. My mum kept EVERYTHING (chronic hoarder) and most of it i wouldn't use today coz there's just so much better stuff available now. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: clover
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 12:04pm
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I don't think I'd sell my dress. I wouldn't recoup much of what I paid for it and I think it is a lovely thing to keep, even if you only bring it out to look at every now and then. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: snooze
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 7:19pm
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After much umming and arring I am selling my wedding dress. I have heaps of pics of me in it and I would like the $'s for a rainy day. Maybe I will regret it I dunno.... ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Bexee
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 8:15pm
| I would love to sell my wedding dress but DH won't let me. It's a Jane Yeh one that is very much of it's time now, but wouldn't necessarily work for my daughter (if we were to have one) and it was custom made. I would however keep my veil to hand down. |
Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 8:21pm
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I plan to keep my wedding dress... Just because it will hold special meaning.
My gran lent hers to her cousin to get married in and never got it back because her cousin sold it!  She was so upset!
Also with the wrap I would probably keep it, jic... Maybe. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: myfullhouse
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 9:53pm
Same! I am going to keep somethings fto hand down to my children/grandchildren but I think they will mostly be the bassinette, special blankets etc I say go with your gut. If you aren't sure then hang on to it, you can always sell it later ------------- Lindsey 
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Sheza wrote:Posted By: JadeC
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 10:15pm
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What kind of wrap is it? I've heard of people keeping Didys to pass on to their daughters, so they'll be nice and soft and broken in. I think if it's a good quality woven wrap it's a lovely idea. ------------- http://pregnancy.baby-gaga.com/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: lovingmummyhood
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 10:20pm
Ditto to the wedding dress and the hand knitted stuff
We also have the highchair that was my Dads when he was a baby (so at least 60 something years old!) ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kandk
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 10:45pm
My Mum kept her wedding dress (she wondered if I wanted to get married in it - ah no!) but she used the veil to make my First Communion dress, which was then used for the flower girl at my wedding  . So I've kept my dress, but not really keeping much baby stuff beyond what I need for #2.------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: WestiesGirl
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 11:25pm
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I wont be selling my wedding dress either. It has sentimental value and means too much to me and DH to sell it.
As for baby stuff, I say go for it if you dont want it. I will be keeping things like hand knitted things and keepsakes but other baby stuff will eventually get sold
Wow lovingmummyhood thats an awesome achievement  ------------- Our Angel July 08  Gone but not forgotten
And to complete our family, our princess has arrived 
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Posted By: nathansmummy
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 11:26pm
| I always think you should keep things that are special to you. Especially to do with weddings and babies and special events like that. Money will come and go but memories like that are special. |
Posted By: MamaMore
Date Posted: 30 July 2010 at 1:18pm
It's a Popit wrap... basically just a long length of fabric. I loved it. I'm not really sentimental about my wedding dress. I really shouldn't have worn it... it looks great on the hanger but not on me. |
Posted By: MrsEmma
Date Posted: 30 July 2010 at 4:54pm
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I won't be selling my wedding dress either, I love it too much even though I won't ever wear it again unless we renew our vows. I flew to Sydney and back in a day just to pick it up and I would never recoup the cost of it! Plus DH told me I wasn't allowed to sell it just in case I ever regret it
As for baby things, I am a bit of a shocker so I will probably keep quite a lot past what I need for No. 2 ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: SquishysMum
Date Posted: 30 July 2010 at 7:18pm
Oh me too, except mine was made out of a design I made up out of magazine cut-outs (ok, sounds dodge, but it was just the top off one dress with the skirt off another). Looked GREAT on the models, but the top just didn't work with me!!! I still have the dress, looking forward to DD playing dress-ups in it one day. My mum was so emotionally attached to her dress, we were allowed to look but not touch, and then our house burned down and it was gone. I want my girl to play princesses like I would have loved to! |
Posted By: deodora
Date Posted: 30 July 2010 at 7:34pm
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I think if you are asking the question then deep down you probably know you want to keep it - even if you dont' know you know it!!! You can alway change your mind later but I would keep it for now rather than regret it when it is too late.
On another note I notice that lots of people talk about baby things they will sell. I am curious that few seem to be giving things to others. The tradition of passing on baby things with pleasure and love seems to have been abrutly ended by many. It may be a generation thing - I don't know other people on this threads ages . I am an older mother in my late 30's and I have noticed that in our coffee morning group and amongst my friends those in my age group and older tend to pass things on to each other, to friends of friends or to charity while most of the younger ones to to put things on trade me or even try to sell them to friends. I understand that times are hard and every $ can help but I don't think it is just about money as some of the people selling have plenty and many of those who are the most generous have little. Is it another step away from supportive and sharing communities to individualism? Am I just too old fashioned and sentimental? I'm not sure but it makes me a little sad. |
Posted By: shadowfeet
Date Posted: 30 July 2010 at 9:08pm
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I don't have my dress. I think my Mum sold it. I hated how I looked so it's not something I wanted to keep. ------------- 
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