Passing Down Undies?

**~ Zarava Flutterby ~** · February 8th, 2012, 06:02 AM

Ok so this is probably an odd question but my girls are very close in age, DD1 is TT'd and DD2 is in the process at the moment.
DD1 is basically out of her small undies now but i don't know if i should just pass them down to DD2.

I mean i know where they have been, i know they are clean and how quickly they are cleaned after accidents, i know my girls are clean but undies to me are just one of those things you DON'T pass on.

SO i am interested to hear if you've passed undies down to the younger sibling or just thrown the old (in perfect condition) ones out?

DD2 has some new ones she's been using as i wanted her to pick her own undies for starting TTing but yeah i just don't know.

this could get interesting.

**Novella** · February 8th, 2012, 06:13 AM

yes we did, especially when TT. DD2 got one pack of nice undies but if she had an accident in them she then wore some of dd2's old nickers. It was good because if it was a number 2 accident I just threw them out

Now she is TT I tend to buy new nickers, in saying that my girls arent that different in size and sometimes their undies get mixed up anyway in th ewash

**Snowy Love** · February 8th, 2012, 06:21 AM

We re-used nappies so undies aren't that different to me, I was going to re-use them but my 5 year old still fits in his size 2-3's that haven't been worn to pieces and my 2 year old has a tiny butt so I had to find smaller undies for him.

**Zee** · February 8th, 2012, 06:30 AM

For me I wont be handing down undies.... I just can't but doesn't mean it's wrong or a no-no that's just me I guess. To tell you the truth, I don't do hand me downs at all. As soon as something doesn't fit one of my kids, off it goes to a friend or salvos.

**Lenny** · February 8th, 2012, 10:40 AM

Yes - in fact DS1 still fits the ones that DS2 wears so if I make a calculation error when i'm packing clothes - it's all good!
I used cloth nappies and second hand ones too. Hand me downs are awesome! It's not about money - the environment needs less clothes wasted. And it sure saves me going to the shops unnecessarily. (that took me 2 goes to spell

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I am super lucky to get so many clothes from my mother's group. But none have ever passed undies on

**Babyluv** · February 8th, 2012, 06:33 AM

I don't see the diff between using the same nappies and the same undies for your children, I would use them.

**~ Zarava Flutterby ~** · February 8th, 2012, 06:37 AM

As soon as something doesn't fit one of my kids, off it goes to a friend or salvos.

Wow really?
My girls are paddock kids so I pass down everything, stained stuff becomes motorbike & paddock clothes and anything not ruined is passed on for the fact it survived

My girls are so close on age though that I do an empty of 1 draw and it goes straight to DD2, they have soooo many clothes given to them sometimes DD1 doesn't wear things.

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**megs** · February 8th, 2012, 06:43 AM

Wow really?
My girls are paddock kids so I pass down everything, stained stuff becomes motorbike & paddock clothes and anything not ruined is passed on for the fact it survived

My girls are so close on age though that I do an empty of 1 draw and it goes straight to DD2, they have soooo many clothes given to them sometimes DD1 doesn't wear things.!

Same here with my boys ZF.....what everything can get worn especially being on a farm, they have there farm clothes.

But in answer to the question yes I do hand down undies, my 2 eldest boys are the same size so it became too hard trying to remember whose undies were whose (and they didn't care) so now that just all go in the draw together. I have kept the decent ones and handed them down to there younger brother. That being said when he started toilet training he did get some brand new jocks of his own so I too just through out anyones that ended up with No 2's in them in the bin. I wouldn't accept underwear from someone else though I use these as I know where they have been and how they have been washed.

**Phteven** · February 8th, 2012, 06:53 AM

We hand them down.
Clothes too and then when we're done with the clothes they go to cousins (not the undies).

The boys are very close in size so TBH they share more than hand them down. I've pretty much forgotten which undies belong to whom

I try to be an ethical consumer so even if I was inclined to spend money on 2 wardrobes I wouldn't because I think that sharing clothes in a family is the socailly and environmentally responsible thing to do.

**~ Zarava Flutterby ~** · February 8th, 2012, 06:55 AM

The boys are very close in size so TBH they share more than hand them down. I've pretty much forgotten which undies belong to whom

I try to be an ethical consumer so even if I was inclined to spend money on 2 wardrobes I wouldn't because I think that sharing clothes in a family is the socailly and environmentally responsible thing to do.

This is the other thing too the girls CAN share clothes at the moment, including undies and it would make life so much easier to just throw all undies in 1 draw and then let them go from there until DD1 goes to the next size up....

I guess i just need to get over the 'don't share undies' thing and realise they are sisters, they don't have germs, they are clean, healthy little people there could be much worse than sharing undies.

Thanks everyone.

***TripleJ*** · February 8th, 2012, 07:12 AM

nope no problem i use second hand nappies and am currently using second hand undies on DS tt but they dont last very long on i usually just do a anti bacterial wash when i get them and occasionally every now and then

**fromscratch** · February 8th, 2012, 11:16 AM

Wow really?
My girls are paddock kids so I pass down everything, stained stuff becomes motorbike & paddock clothes and anything not ruined is passed on for the fact it survived

Us too. And mine are different genders.
If the T-shirt survived ds and most did and if I still have them they are handed down to dd to wear around the house and farm agistment. I don't give a toss that they aren't pink. Pinks only end up stained and ruined so it's bad luck for her. Although if the t-shirt is very boyish I have been known to girl it up a bit or give it away. We have a lot of sports team tops and lucky for me they barrick for the same teams so we get away with that fairly easily, phew! DD did want to barrick for a different afl team and I told her she'd have to sleep outside with the dog so she changed her mind......I'm Baaaaaad. lol
She does have girls clothes and she does wear them just not at the farm agistment or when we do anything horsey or yard work. Pants though are girls pants unless they are Jodpers. I bought unisex pull on ones so they are handed down....but ds rides in jeans now so there go's that one.....

Undies though for the same gender siblings and tt think I'd hand them down and throw out number 2's as well.

**Astrid** · February 8th, 2012, 05:37 PM

DD1's undies have been handed down to DD2. All their clothes get washed together, including undies, so if there was any ickiness to be passed on, it would have done so by now

In fact I am now in a dillemma with the undies that DD2 is growing out off. Normally everything either goes to an op shop or a friend, but I was unsure about the undie issue (even though I have passed on nappies)

**Phteven** · February 8th, 2012, 06:02 PM

Pre-schools and child care centres are often grateful for undies (and socks) in good condition so that they can put a clean pair on after an accident.
Women's refuges can use them too because women often turn up with children and they may have nothing except the clothes they stand up in.

**Astrolady** · February 9th, 2012, 08:31 AM

I have passed down all of my boys, from one boy to the next. I do stop at Ash though and from there they get thrown out.

**black_rose** · February 8th, 2012, 08:28 AM

We pass them on, they are close in age so are in the same size. They have some that are just theirs ie tinker bell and Minnie and pink or purple but I don't know with some of the others so they are always interchanged in the washing. I know they are washed and clean and it's just like the nappies ds and dd2 shared. I imagine when they are older and going through puberty it will be different.