Cheap children's clothing

Lyns15

Interested to find out where people buy their children's clothes from and how much they spend.

We tend to get most of our clothes for birthday and Christmas presents but do have to buy wee bits and pieces from time to time. Unfortunately, all 4 of them have taken in growth spurt!

We have DS aged 14; DD aged 12; DD soon to be aged 5 and DD aged 3 (who gets her sister's old clothes).


Many thanks

Lyns

bravobeastie

Charity shops and ebay for my 2. My husband wanted to buy our daughter a winter coat from the Liverpool Football club shop but at almost £50 we couldn't afford. Forward 6 months and I found one in a charity shop, could have only been worn a couple of times as it still had the ribbon attached to it for £1.50

To say I was the best wife in the world that day is an understatement.

I love the buzz of finding lovely clothes for next to nothing in charity shops. My children are always immaculately dressed and the outfit rarely costs more than £10 max

Loulou2010

my ds has nursery clothes an home clothes... most of the home clothes are next, gap and pumpkin patch so more expensive - although i think better quality.

nursery clothes - asda, tesco, sainsburys, primark.... easily get multi pack or t-shirts trousers for £10-£15

Rachel021967

I kit my three out from George at Asda, Florence and Fred at Tesco, Next and charity shops. My eldest two aged 17 and 14 will look for outfits in charity shops. For my eldest daughter's Prom we bought her dress from a second hand designer clothing shop. Nowhere rented them and to buy prices started at £200. We bought her a lovely dress in keeping with her peers for £40. So its always good to have a rummage around a second hand shop. Also with the younger ones I sometimes buy clothes a size or two above what she needs now in the end of season sales. For school clothes I either buy from the supermarket or charity shops. When my elder two were younger I bought their school clothes from the second hand uniform sale.
Shoes I won't scrimpe on and is our major expense. I've seen some hideous deformed feet in my time where the hand-me-down was too narrow for their young feet. I will spend £40-£70 on a pair of shoes each.
Sorry I'm waffling but supermarkets and charity shops are the places to go for cheap clothes. Do you or anybody you know, knows how to make, alter or embellish clothes. My girls would give their high teeth for this. They do there best by hand but they would like to make professional looking clothes.

jumblejack

One word:freecycle!!!!!

Bitsy_Beans

I use a mixture of supermarkets and ebay. I am too tight to spend lots of money in Next etc, nice clothes but ridiculous prices. Especially since mine are only 5 and nearly 3 so they get quite muddy, paint splattered, glue and food. My local CS don't seem to be very good for kids clothes and not the bargain centres they once were. You could also try carboots and table top sales. Not sure how that would work for the older kids if they are a bit sniffy about second hand clothes?

1jim

asda, tesco, sainsbury, next, primark, ebay

hermum

I haven't got young kids now but am always amazed at the great kids clothes you can get from car boot sales.
If it's someone purely decluttering I've seen some people selling monsoon, next etc, new with tags.
A sale I did last year the people in the car next to me offered all they had left at the end of the sale for a couple of quid, a very happy Mum walked off with a couple of black bags full of decent clothing.

LJM

I have 2 girls and I tend to buy alot from eBay matalan George and charity shops I only buy sale items though otherwise I could end up spending a fortune I also resell their clothes back onto eBay to have funds to restock for them. Childrens clothes can be so expensive