Some of them are going into the baby's dresser. The empty ones were re-filled with Shamus' clothes that don't fit anymore and are being sent back up for the baby. It took forever to unpack, sort, and then re-pack everything, though I'll admit it was fun for me getting to rediscover all the cute stuff people have given us over the years (TINY OWL SHOES!). A whole lot of them ended up being Shamus' "new clothes". It's going to suck when he gets old enough to realize hand-me-downs aren't super exciting. I was lucky- like Chance, I was the oldest kid so my sisters all had to wear MY old shabby stuff. Ha HA! For all the boxes full of kid clothes we saved, I wish we'd been more stingy with our little baby clothes. I gave all the non-sentimental stuff away and kept the rest to eventually make a quilt or something with. Thankful I never bothered to cut them up (If anyone has hand me downs to throw our way, I never say no! We're pretty short on everything 12 months and under.)
We've been using our old baby changing table as storage in our dining room for a year now. I bought it when Chance was a baby and we lived in Vallejo. After Shamus grew out of it, we were never certain about whether we were going to have another one.. We almost purged it several times, but ended up repurposing it just in case. Like our mountains of toddler clothes, I'm glad we held onto it! After months of Craigslisting every few days and seeing nothing I liked for that spot/ purpose, we made a trip to Urban Ore Saturday and there it was! I'm several hours of sanding and painting away from having a dining room I'll want to photograph. And then several MORE hours of sanding and painting away from having a changing table that doesn't look like two sticker-happy children have already loved it to death. Anyone want to join me for several upon several hours of sanding and painting? You know you wanna!
Short on baby clothes you say? SAY NO MORE. I love any excuse to buy adorable tiny outfits.
ReplyDeleteHa ha, I'll never say no to tiny outfits. I've been trying to Goodwill onesies here and there, but it's slow going. I still need three month and six month stuff and so far I've only found two or three things that say 9 months on them anywhere. How can I have so many boxes and so little infant clothing? It boggles the mind.
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