My best friend (since we were 2 years old) had a little boy last year and has literally hundreds of outfits that he barely wore from newborn (which he couldn't wear at all) all the way to 12 months. I visited her last week and left with a giant box of the most adorable brand-new looking baby clothes ever. She called me up today and has 3 more for me. Needless to say I was overjoyed! Free clothes = no money out of our pockets! I tell OH and all he says is "It's a waste of time" in the most uninterested voice ever. So I get all annoyed. The clothes are a huge range of newborn-12 months and in my opinion it's better to have more than enough than not enough clothes. But he seems to think having so much will be a hassle and that we won't use half of them. Which could very well be true but you never know. Then he tried to say they were "diseased" because they weren't off the rack brand new. She washed everything in baby-safe/environment-safe detergent before she even considered giving anything to me.

Sorry that was so long but I'm annoyed at his reaction to my friend's kindness. Am I overreacting and is he right? Or is he just being negative?

I don't think he's right at all. Free stuff is always good, and baby's grow out of their clothes so quickly there really is no need to buy all of it brand new if you don't have to!

That's what I thought! He was talking like the 3-6 month clothes were going to last forever and I kept telling him babies grow out of clothes so fast we'd barely be able to keep up if we had to buy it all ourselves!

I agree with you, babies grow so quickly!!! They'll be out of the 3-6 month old clothing before he knows it!!

there is nothing wrong with getting and using clothing second hand! a quick wash and they are good to go. And baby clothes at that...my friends w/ newborns and real little ones have outfits they use only once or twice before LO grows out of them! It's probably the same with the clothes you got, practically brand new, and free at that! You have a good friend there, lucky you!

Men usually like to save money if its not being spent on them! Use them and thank your kind friend. You know where they have come from . Tell your oh you really are lucky to have such a generous friend. Babies really do grow out of their clothes very very quickly! MEN grumble , grumble !!!!!

Oh my gosh, ask him if he can afford to buy lots of clothes every month cause LO keeps outgrowing them! I WISH that someone I knew had a baby girl recently. Everyone I know had boys, and told me if I had a boy they'd give me their clothes, but I ended up with a girl.

Also, they came from your best friend, its not like you found the box on the street! Keep em, if he wants to buy his own for LO, let him.

I think its great of your friend to do that for you. Like everyone else has said, babies have these clothes on them a couple of times max, before they grow out of them. They´ve been washed and you know whose given them to you, so whats the problem?

Two of my best mates have had babies over the last year and have already started sorting out clothes for me that I can have.....bring it on is what I say.

When I was younger, I had a lot of hand me clothes throughout my childhood, and once I´d outgrown them, if they were still in good condition they were passed onto my younger cousin - its a normal thing to do!

Maybe your OH feels a bit put out that people think that he maybe can´t provide for his child - which is daft, but you know how men can be sometimes!

I've got baby clothes that my mother has given me. They used to be MY baby clothes!

Just ignore your man and clothe your baby in whatever you've got. And once you're done with the clothes I'm sure another pregnant mama will be thankful for them.

(Ps, it's good for the environment too!)

Quite a few of my friends had baby boys, and gave me loads of baby clothes. Saved me a fortune. There is absoultely nothing wrong with 2nd hand baby clothes, the rate babies grow nothing fits them for long anyway. Put the money you would of spent to better use.