Baby Clothes

As we are just preparing for Baby to arrive, we aren’t delving too much into clothes yet. My wife is very savvy with Craigslist and other online pursuits. And we are very cost conscious. Me, especially. So we decided not to buy a lot of clothes for Baby that will only get worn a few times before they are outgrown.

We took a Friday off work and hit some garage sales that advertised baby items.  Since we are waiting to learn the sex of Baby, we had to search a little harder to find gender-neutral things, but it wasn’t too bad. We did have to pass up some super-cute things, though.

As far as cost, the baby clothes (sometimes with the tags still on them!) were selling for $1 to $2. Same for baby board books – in perfect condition. We estimate that we got well over $500 worth of essentials for $100.

There may come a time when we need special clothing for an event that we’ll have to hit the stores for, but for day-to-day stuff, garage sales are the way to go. I would imagine we’ll get some other clothes at baby showers and such. After that, we’ll see what items we still need.