Do you pass down underwear? - Page 2

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Originally Posted by Drummer's Wife

I wonder if people who don't pass down underwear also don't re-use cloth diapers with subsequent babies. Because that seems grosser to me (and I did re-use them, just saying), since diapers are actually pooped and peed in, while underwear, generally, is not.

Exactly. I pass underwear down between kids. I have passed mama pads on to other mamas. And I have bought and sold used diapers and training pants - from (gasp) strangers.

If I thought my washing routine was not sanitary enough for other people's underwear, it wouldn't be sanitary enough for our family's underwear, yk?

Once we stopped washing diapers, I continued to wash handkerchiefs, kitchen cloths, family cloth, underwear, dishtowels, and socks with a more "sanitizing" routine than the rest of the laundry.

I see no problem with used underwear at all. My girls love getting hand-me-down underwear because sometimes it has better pictures than the underwear I am willing to buy! (Disney stuff...) We pass our outgrown undies down to cousins.

[LaughingHyena]

I have no problem with the idea, but since I have one of each it's not often that we do now they are old enough to have strong opinions on what they wear.

So far I have passed our good condition used ones onto the preschool for their spares pile. I'm not sure what I'll do with them when we are out of preschool sizes, it seems a shame to throw them out but I don't know many people that would accept them.

I was initially q bit squeamish about used nappies but it only took a couple of weeks before I got over it. I reasoned that I felt ones DD has pooed in were clean enough after being washed then any nappies I washed should be clean enough.

[Irishmommy]

I do, or did. Dd2 has stopped wearing any that were her sister's, so now all get bought new, instead of just some.

[jellybeanandkids]

I have a DS and a DD and an 8 year gap to boot, but I am squeamish about used underwear, so it would be a no. I know I'd rather go commando than wear someone else's used undies.

[Breastisbest2008]

I usually buy new. The kids love being able to get new undies with fun charachters on them of their own. But I dont see anything wrong with it for younger children.

[ILoveMyBabyBird]

ds gets hand me down underwear from cousins, and while i am okay with it now, as they aren't in great shape, but not stained up or anything just a bit faded, i think once he hits school age i will be buying him new underwear. I have also bought used cloth diapers from strangers, so i don't think that it is any worse than that. Unless they are in great condition, after 4 years old i won't be taking them, and yeah pre-puberty of course, I don't really want any underwear hand me downs for ds or other children past size 8 or so. And he is already wearing size 6/8 at 4 so this is probably it for him.

[Logan]

We do for younger ages, and my kids are both still little at the moment. With the learning to use the toilet the little ones need heaps of underwear so they dont wear out very fast. But with the older ages they have a lot less pairs and they stay in one size a lot longer, so they get a bit old and worn by the time they are outgrown. I only pass down good condition ones though even in the little sizes.

[UberMama]

This is one of the few things that my kids wouldn't pass down. I have twin boys and then a girl that is 21 months younger. She is verrrry picky about what undies she wears, so she wouldn't like theirs anyway. But my boys do share undies, since they are in the same size. THAT doesn't ick me out though?!

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Originally Posted by Logan

But with the older ages they have a lot less pairs and they stay in one size a lot longer, so they get a bit old and worn by the time they are outgrown.

Maybe this is one reason I can hand mine down - I like to have a pile of underwear in each size so I never hear that a kid can't find any. LOL. There are definitely underwear casualties with each pass-down. I probably buy enough for two kids, for the first kid, and then there are more than enough survivors for the second kid (and maybe just enough for the cousin).

I am totally not icked out by it - I trust my washing routine. But YMMV.