Quite a lot of my friends here in Sweden who got kids lately ended up just buying tons of second hand velcro-closed baby clothes, paid by weight. I don't under

Quite a lot of my friends here in Sweden who got kids lately ended up just buying tons of second hand velcro-closed baby clothes, paid by weight. I don't understand why that isn't a much more common practice across the world, it doesn't make sense to me that people are buying new clothes for kids that will outgrow them in 1-6 months time.