Children's Clothes - How Many Do You Buy, How Much Do You Spend?

[Olive]

I buy too much I mainly buy from the UK
Tan DD2 has refused jeans/pants for a few years now do its dresses/skirts with tights and leggings as well, works well for us because being a string bean pants just don't fit, DD2 is similar

[~Kim~]

Funny you post this. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm actually better at it for DS.
I'm writiing down these ideas for my expedition today. We have very limited kids stuff available and Target have 20%off and triple flybys today so that's where we're headed.

[Cranky Kitten]

Heh, I did DS's big winter shop during the big baby sales and put it on layby. Got a heap of long sleeved t-shirts, a couple of hoodie jumpers (one thick woollen one, one lighter fleecy one) and a few pairs of pants, both trackies and cargos/jeans. The problem I'm having at the moment is it's all size 0, and while some stuff fits with legs rolled up etc, most doesn't - so I've had to go out and supplement with some smaller warm clothes because it's gotten cold at night already.

Mind you, I did manage to raid the local op shops for some of it. Nice stuff at $1-2 per piece is awesome

[LuluHB]

Too many and too much basically! I almost never buy clothes for myself but have in the past struggled to resist cute/pretty things for the girls. It is definitely my biggest financial weakness. I don't ever buy second hand even though I know some of the stuff I donate to the op shops is practically brand new still, so other stuff must be too. I just can't bring myself to do it and justify it on the basis that DD2 will already have a lot of second hand stuff.

I've definitely turned a corner with both of them now that they're at school/kindy though. They wear uniforms, which saves a heap on clothing requirements. Like Tan and Olive's girls, they both refuse to wear anything but dresses most of the time too although in winter I can talk them into jeans or tracky dacks if we're going to the park or outside to play. So, dresses and skirts with tights here, and a couple of pairs of jeans and trackies for outside play. They will have two pairs of shoes each - sneakers and good shoes (hopefully the ones I bought a little too big for them in Hong Kong just before Christmas will fit them!). I try and end up with two colour schemes each, so that everything can mix and match.

Of course, #3 already has a wardrobe full of brand new outfits courtesy of me and my Mum, who also has absolutely no self control when it comes to the girls' clothes. I never thought we would plan a third, so this little one will have to be in size 2s and 3s before she can expect hand me downs from her big sisterw. At last count I think I had about 30 outfits in 0000s but mainly 000s. My justification is that as a busy mum of 3 I want to minimise my need for washing frequently by having more changes. DH isn't buying that one though