Charity shops

catznine

Thanks Tiff have just found out how to do it and will now go and have some fun!

Lillibet_2

Being a fan of chairty shops & pregnant I have spent the last few days looking in charity shops for baby clothes. Result : Not a thing for under 1 year olds execpt what obviously stared out life as a multi pack of body suits for newborns (Unfortuantely only suitable for a boy & I am still at the neutral stage). As I am constantly being told not to buy for newborn but to get bigger sizes I anticipated picking up 3-6 month & 6-9 month stuff but could not find so much as a sock! What do people do with it when all their children have out grown it? I am the first in my circle to get pregnantt so do not expect to recive any hand-me-downs and had been planning on relying on chairty shops to see me through! Is it just my area?

Cheers

tiff

I noticed a sad lack of childrens clothes too yesterday.

Ticklemouse

When I was pregnant with No1, I went into a local charity shop to see if they had anything. They had just taken delivery of sackfuls of stuff from a designer baby shop that had finished doing maternity clothes - these were what had been left after the sale. I bought over £200 worth of clothes for £35 - brand new. Trouble was, I got carried away and some of the stuff never fitted or looked dreadful on. It's hard to judge what you will look like at 8 months+ when you're not yet showing. Ah well, gave most of it back to charity later on

Lillibet - unless you're a real clothes lover (I'm not) you may find you can get away with very few clothes. I lived in a Tesco's denim button up maternity dress (can just wear ordinary t shirts/jumpers under) along with Tesco maternity jeans and a couple of mat. tops. Got one decent dress for weddings/Xmas/going out etc.

culpepper

Lillibet wrote:

Being a fan of chairty shops & pregnant I have spent the last few days looking in charity shops for baby clothes. Result : Not a thing for under 1 year olds execpt what obviously stared out life as a multi pack of body suits for newborns (Unfortuantely only suitable for a boy & I am still at the neutral stage). As I am constantly being told not to buy for newborn but to get bigger sizes I anticipated picking up 3-6 month & 6-9 month stuff but could not find so much as a sock! What do people do with it when all their children have out grown it? I am the first in my circle to get pregnantt so do not expect to recive any hand-me-downs and had been planning on relying on chairty shops to see me through! Is it just my area?

Cheers

Try the NCT.They have sales of baby clothes,equipment and maternity clothes. You should find them in the yellow pages. People sometimes sell their baby clothes through local ads.They are so new still once your bubs have outgrown them.We bought a huge sack of baby clothes,a pram and baby bath from our local paper's for sale section years ago,they did for two bubs and then were passed on to other family.

elona

Lillibet

I do not know were you live but we live almost equal distances from Leeds, Harrogate, York and there is a lot of difference in the charity shops in those areas. Try going somewhere in a "posh " area where they just chuck stuff out and do not re use.

sans_2

Lillibet wrote:

Being a fan of chairty shops & pregnant I have spent the last few days looking in charity shops for baby clothes. Result : Not a thing for under 1 year olds execpt what obviously stared out life as a multi pack of body suits for newborns (Unfortuantely only suitable for a boy & I am still at the neutral stage). As I am constantly being told not to buy for newborn but to get bigger sizes I anticipated picking up 3-6 month & 6-9 month stuff but could not find so much as a sock! What do people do with it when all their children have out grown it? I am the first in my circle to get pregnantt so do not expect to recive any hand-me-downs and had been planning on relying on chairty shops to see me through! Is it just my area?

Cheers

Do you have a Tesco or Asda near you? Both accept coupons without buying the product so you might be able to buy a few cheap clothes by using some of those coupons! I can count on one hand the amount of times I've paid full price for nappies.

wendym

I'm having a huge sort out of my sewing things, and have fabric that's too heavy for Ebay to pass on.

The last time I gave some to a charity shop, I saw it a couple of days later in their bin bag, which was a shocking waste, I thought. It was decent stuff, in useful lengths, not scratty bits and pieces.

Does anyone know the best place to give it to?

elona

You could advertise it on your local freecycle.

redballoon_2

i always use the pdsa or oxfam