Baby clothes and furniture

Hello DJ9020

We got mostly new stuff with our first child, but quickly learned the wisdom of previously owned stuff with our 2nd and 3rd children. I am now very much into previously owned things and am mad at myself for not realizing what great savings there are in buying things that have already been used. I will do this for most anything except for previously chewed food.

I got practically no new clothes really. There were some items given to me of course, and a few things that I picked up just because they were too cute to resist, but since kids outgrow things so quickly it just didn't make sense to me to spend a lot of money on things! I was given a lot of used items by friends who had small children, and they came in very useful.

As for furniture, when my son was very small I borrowed a cradle, a clamshell playpen, and a couple of other items that have now gone back to their original owners for further usage with later children and grandchildren and such. The crib that my son sleeps in was also given to us, but we did check out all the safety standards and stuff just to be sure, since that's something you have to be careful about.

We don't have any special dressers or anything for our baby, so I hadn't even thought about that one.