If you can get a second hand or loan bassinette and you are planning more bubs close together than get one. If not I did not have the need for a bassinette with DD1. She was in a porta cot in a snuggle bed for 4 months in our room then in a snuggle bed in her own cot in her room.

TBH Loren hated the bassinette from 12wks and ended up in the porta cot anyway.

BTW Big W and Target have bassinettes for cheaper than $200.

I never used bassinette sheets. I used muslin wraps and small blankets too.