Baby clothes - where to buy?

[sashalo]

Apparent date is 28 May 2010. Hopefully it will be on time!

So there are loads of secondwear trade going on facebook pages? That's pretty cool! I didn't know about that. Do I just search baby clothes on FB?

Thanks!

[BrightSparkles]

I'll have to have a look and see what the groups are called that I have on my page. I'll let you know tonight... don't have FB at work

Do you know what your having??? I'm due around the same time as you and we don't know what we are having, but if we have a boy your welcome to the hundreds of bags of girls stuff we have

Also, you'd be surprised at how generous people are when you actually have the baby!

[ss_storm]

I have got a lot of clothes for DD off Ebay. Baby clothes don't have a lot of wear and tear (until they start crawling!) so generally second hand clothes are in really good condition and look almost brand new. Maybe try the Salvos as well?

And I second that once people know you are having a baby, you will have freebies coming out your ears! I got so many clothes from just work colleagues that I didn't have to buy much at all for her as a newborn.

[sashalo]

I think getting second hand clothes isn't so bad from a friend or parent, but my boyfriend is super *** about Salvo's and stuff.

I don't see the big deal, but it's his baby too..so...

But I think checking out facebook would be all right! (Haven't told him yet)

Do people buy off ebay in bulk second hand clothes?

Apologies it seems like I have so many questions!

[girlonamission]

Hi,

I have gotten some really good bargains on ebay from time to time for my boys as well - as SammyRo pointed out, sometimes the stuff you end up with isn't worth wearing and I've been known to put stuff straight in the bin, but if you're careful who you buy from, you can get some really good bulk packs of clothes.

I tried the whole online thing too from various online stores, but I found once I paid for postage, often it wasn't always worth it, and I was better off waiting until the likes of Target were having a sale, and also Best & Less is quite good for bub/little kids clothes. I find that Best & Less is probably better for toddler clothes than it is for baby clothes. but I realise you were hoping for online stuff.

Its true about them growing so fast though - my boys were both really small newborns so they were in 00000 sized clothes to start with, but they really only fitted into them for a few weeks at the most (even DS2 who was 5 weeks early had grown into 0000 by the time his due date rolled around), so definitely don't go too crazy with the newborn stuff, you may even find bub doesn't wear some of it at all if he/she grows too fast.

Good luck!

[widdly]

I just got stuff from Target and Kmart and had a few people give me hand me downs which were great too. I wonce bought a heap of Pumpkin Patch clothes and they were the worst quality clothes I have bought fo rthe money, I thought Target were alot better quality and half the price.

[sashalo]

I think Kmart and Target are all right. Got some stuff for my friend's 3 year old, everything is quite decently priced!

Does anyone ever go off the tangent and buy designer babywear?

And I was looking at the online websites before, there's this gadget called b. box. Anyone heard of it? It's like this baby wipes thing and they say once you use it, you would never want to live without it? Seems too good to be true - any mummies have used it before I make a purchase?