Do any of you Mamas have an EXTREMELY hard time getting rid of/selling any of your kids things? Even stuff my daughter barely used or wore, i just can’t give it up! And i have no where to put it all! How do i get over it and get rid of the stuff? I’m thinking it’s just an emotional thing because she’s my first baby
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It’s easier for me to take it to a consignment store like Once Upon a Child. I always take our outgrown items in and trade for clothing that will fit and things we can use! It helps knowing those things will go to another child and get used, AND I get to come home with new goodies to replace everything with!
I’m the same way keep some of the really cute things, or 1sts and tell yourself you have to help others that helped me.
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I still have all
My daughter’s nice smocked dresses and they are from 26 years ago . My grandchild wears them
Keep a few items. Just think, you’ll have more space!
That’s how hoarding starts. I either find people I know personally and give it to them or try in a local mom page
Someone once told me that by getting rid of things they no longer use, you are allowing them more room to grow 
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I’m the same way. I eventually when Im up to it I’ll post it on my site near me. And try to get rid of it, if not I’ll give it to salvation army, or good will. Or something.
Yes and my kids are adults now . But I just can’t let go of the stuff .
We still have the first shirt I bought my son and he is 37 years old now
It will all go at a yardsale
Try to pass them down to people you love. That way, you can see them being loved, by the ones you love 
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Through it in a back of a Dodge ram truck so they can pull it out later
It took me 5 years of sorting through my daughters baby clothes every few months… now I have just enough for a memory box 
I wanted to keep all the clothes for any future baby’s then unexpectedly fell pregnant with a little boy so I kept the few faves of my daughters and did a swap with my mums friend who was expecting a girl but had boys previously so I got a bunch of baby boy things
Honestly if your not planning on having another any time soon get rid of it! It’s a pain to lug it with you if you move, take it from someone who learnt the hard way my house got cluttered for awhile because I had a hard time letting it all go, now I just want to throw everything away and have essentials only
If you know anyone expecting its a great way to give it up knowing it’s going to someone who will use It
I guess I was that way with my first…but by the third they were lucky I didn’t donate them 
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put some of the more intimate/sentimental things away in a box for keepsakes. I’ve got 3 kiddos, and have some of there more loved toys they’d enjoy still, but certain bigger toys I’ve gotten rid of. later on you can create a cute keepsake box for her, and add more with your other kids. keep a few shirts or sweaters to build over time of there’s, and create a quilt with them later when they’re grown.
you can’t hold onto it all, there’d never be enough space… try to hold onto certain ones to enjoy a sweet memory once awhile
Use to until I realized if they don’t pick it up or put it away they really don’t want it so bye bye 
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Bag it all up
And post photos on your local
Pay it forward page
Or donate it to charities
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Get some help. Or you will be like me. 50+ with a 30 and 28 year old and 4 storage buildings full. Bless you. Clothes will dry rot. I have the 1st jar, washed out, of baby food mine ate. I have parted with toys that I have and sent home to the grandchildren, now they can play with what daddy or mama played with. You just can’t keep it all.
I saved my daughters dresses . I’m going to have baby blankets made with the material. I had their Pom shirts made into big blankets
When it comes to toys, I just started to rotate the toys my kids play with. Every other week, I swap their toys out. What they don’t play with, I will give away. If it was expensive, I will keep it. Unless it’s huge. I’m holding onto the fact I’ll have grandkids someday. 
We usually have the same toys. Alot of little people and accessories, disney toys, spiderman toys. I just put up all the disney action figures, my kids haven’t touched them in a long time. But see I’ve put way to much money into them
- I can’t bring myself to sell them, or give then away
- I have 3 kids, someone better give me grandkids
- I will save toys that have gone through my kids, so ik they’ll last my grandkids, my kids throw everything everywhere.
- I have the space to put the tubs, so my house doesn’t look cluttered. Now if i didn’t have the space, I wouldn’t keep the toys.
My son had a huge 5 foot stand up racecar track he got for his birthday. It was great for a month, til he broke it. So I gave it away for free. It was expensive, but it was broken. An easy fix, but I didn’t want to deal with it.
As clothes, that’s easy to get rid of. Sad, but if I like the outfit I’ll get it in a bigger size. Or I’ll keep it if I have a child same gender in a smaller size.
My kids are also young. Oldest is 5. If you have the storage, store it. If you don’t have to storage, it isn’t fair to your kids and yourself to keep the items. Don’t do it, if you can’t store it, without space being an issue.
Hope this helps.
Add…If you aren’t done having kids keep all the kids items. Baby beds, pumps, swings, baby clothes.
If you’re done, get rid of them. Yes it’s sad, super sad, but it’s better to have a clean home, rather than a cluttered one. If it makes you sad, make each kid a photo album with them playing with the toys, or in their clothes.
Did your parents keep your stuff from when you were younger? Just saying you probably don’t really care about it?? Keep one or two things and that’s good enough I think
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I’ve been selling her cutest items online I know others will enjoy those super cute dresses I sell
Nope. Clutter makes my skin crawl 
Clean they’re room when they’re not home💯
I donate to women and children’s shelters
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We kept everything even stuff our kids didn’t like that much. We filled up the attic. We figured they would choose or we’d give it to our grandkids. Never happened as far as I know. But it made good insulation.
throw it in a garbage bag and give it to another kid in need 
My daughter had a 100$ repunzal horse. Sold it for 40$. She still doesn’t know it’s even gone 
I keep the nicest things that have sentimental value amd the rest I sell on marketplace and I have a yardsale every november to get rid of things she has outgrown.
I still have their coming home from the hospital outfits and they are 34 and 30.
I put it on MarketPlace for free… I can’t stand clutter lol.
Eh, we had an attic built!
Seriously, look for a professional organizer. They are trained in the psychology of keeping stuff and can help you part with lots of things without grieving too much. I had a friend who asked why I didn’t just pay someone to clean up, but I explained I was paying to help with the mental aspects of decluttering.
Keep the handmade stuff or things from someone special who is no longer around, donate the more generic stuff to a charity. Save only the most spectacular artwork or the first of something.
I have a sweet frilly baby dress and a giant teddy bear from the beloved, dearly departed Aunt Ginny (who was more like a great-grandma), a hand-stenciled dress from Aunt Pam; a tiny chair, rocking chair & baby doll cradle handmade by my grandfather, a lock of each of my kids’ hair, trophies and tons of pix of my kids. Kept my son’s signed baseball, my original Barbie doll for example (glad I did—it’s now worth big bucks!). My son turned his clothes and shoes to dust playing, but I might have saved a hat or tiny outfit he outgrew in the blink of an eye.
Just box up the stuff you can’t get rid of and look at it again when you’re not so emotional. Anything generic can go. I used to toss all the stupid plastic McDonald’s toys and the like into a drawer or box as the kids got bored with them. When the drawer was full I’d bleach wash them & donate them to my kids’ preschool or elementary school to use as prizes for competitions. Maybe they just tossed them in the trash but as long as I didn’t see it I was OK.
Sometimes I have someone else take something away to toss out so I don’t have to do it myself.
Good luck! My kids say when I die they are just going to firebomb my house. 
They don’t want much of anything, and my son is a minimalist so there’s that.
My daughter is 12 now (my only child) and I literally have totes sitting in my basement of stuff because some of her toys, outfits, and random stuff over the years
I was the same way with my first. It worked out well for me because we had another one and all the clothes were passed down. Then after my second grew out of them there were a few things I kept longer because I liked them. I guess that isn’t really advice but letting you know you aren’t alone. For me once there was two of everything and soo many toys I got over it and said some of this has got to go.
You’re hanging in to Emotions while someone could use clothes…hmm
I chose 2 things outfits/toys/shoes etc each year for each of my children until they left home and gave them to them then. I took photos of everything before they took them.