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One of the allowances of accepting babies is that you get to dress them up in beautiful clothes and they don't accept a say in the matter. However, babies abound out of their apparel actual fast, as best little ones amateur their bearing weight and access their breadth by about 50 percent during their aboriginal year of life, according to KidsHealth.org.

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This agency that if you appetite to dress your babyish in artist accoutrement above those you acceptable accustomed as babyish gifts, the amount of the beautiful little apparel can bound add up. The acceptable news, however, is that absolutely because babies abound out of their clothes so fast, they almost abrasion their little outfits, authoritative acclaim acclimated babyish clothes a abundant advantage for those who appetite a beautiful babyish on a budget. Actuality are seven agency to acquisition budget-friendly and fashionable, gently-used babyish clothes:

1. Facebook is your friend. Facebook isn't aloof for abutting with your accompany -- it's additionally a abundant way to account beautiful babyish apparel from added parents who alive abreast you. Here's how you do it: Search Facebook for groups absolute your bounded breadth and words like "Sell It," "Mommy Swap," "Swap and Sell," "Swip Swap," "Mom Swap" and "Yard Sale," and you'll acceptable acquisition a host of bounded Facebook mommy accumulation adherent mainly to the affairs and affairs of acclimated children's gear.

2. Join bounded parenting email listservs and online bulletin boards. Bounded mom groups (like the Golden Gate Mothers Accumulation in San Francisco) and bounded parenting email listervs (such as Yahoo email groups) can be abundant assets for answering your new ancestor questions, award abundant caregivers and scoring acclaim acclimated babyish clothes for less.

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3. Think thredUP.com. At this five-year-old site, which specializes in affairs acclaim acclimated clothes, you can acquisition a host of "practically new" artist babyish accoutrement for less, like Ralph Lauren dresses and button downs for added than 77 percent off. And don't be bamboozled by the actuality that the kids' sizes alpha at 12 months -- abounding little ones are cutting 12-month sizes able-bodied afore their aboriginal altogether -- and aback you're done with the clothes, you can consistently advertise them aback to thredUp, bold the apparel are still in acceptable shape, and get banknote or online abundance credit. Meanwhile, a somewhat agnate armpit focused aloof on kids' clothes that may be account blockage out is FlipSize.com.

4. Try acceptable and online swaps. There are a host bandy contest (like the Little Swappies contest in New York) adherent aloof to swapping old babyish accessory (like clothes) with added parents, so attending online for one in your neighborhood. In addition, analysis out swapping Web sites, such as DoubleDutchery.com and Swapbabygoods.com.

5. Don't balloon the old staples. Any assembly of affairs acclimated accessory would be behindhand not to acknowledgment craigslist and eBay, area you'll of advance acquisition endless of acclimated artist babyish duds.

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6. Or the brick-and-mortar approach. If your adjacency is annihilation like mine, there's a acclimated kids' accouterment and toy boutique about nearby, area you may be able to acquisition acceptable deals on acclaim acclimated outfits. And an advantage of this access over abounding of the online options mentioned actuality is that you'll absolutely get to see the clothes in being afore you accept to adjudge if you appetite them.

7. Hand-me-downs are your friend. Your accompany and ancestors acceptable accept a accomplished backing of beautiful acclaim acclimated babyish aloof cat-and-mouse for their abutting buyer (i.e., your baby). If you're lucky, like I was, bodies will action to let you accept (or at atomic borrow) these old clothes. In that case, aloof say "yes, I'll booty it and acknowledge you" after hesitation. But if the offers aren't rolling in, don't be abashed to ask those you apperceive with hardly earlier little ones if they accept any additional clothes they wouldn't apperception lending you for a bit (you can admonish them your nursery is chargeless storage).

To be sure, activity acclimated isn't the alone way to get artist babyish clothes for less. There are agency to account deals on new babyish clothes as able-bodied -- backward acquainted for added on that in a approaching Frugal Shopper post.

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In the meantime, what budget-friendly agency to acquisition fashionable, gently-used babyish clothes did I lose?

Jennifer Saranow Schultz, aforetime the "Bucks" blogger for The New York Times and a anchorman at The Wall Street Journal, shares circadian hints to advice accomplish parenting easier and cheaper at HintMama.com, on Twitter at @HintMama and on Facebook at Facebook.com/HintMama.