Storing baby items

For those mummies who are wanting more babies/ had babies before, how have you stored/ packed away items of clothing / car seats and prams etc so they don’t go mouldy?
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They need to stay within the house, have you got a cupboard you could use? I've got boxes of clothes behind the TV in my bedroom. Unfortunately I had to bin all big items I stored in the loft like the next to me crib due to mould and I had them all cleaned before storing too x

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so I did think about putting them in the loft, but now I’m reconsidering. I do have a spare room so they could go in there.

Have you stored in bin bags? Or vacuum bags before putting in the boxes? X

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Just in big boxes like the clip lid ones and they've been absolutely fine, my eldest turned 3 the same month baby was born so newborn stuff had been stored for nearly 3yrs and all felt like new once washed. I would definitely store in the spare room rather than loft.
I was absolutely gutted! I go in our loft quite regularly so I know they were fine when I first got pregnant but when I went to pull them out around 30 weeks we'd had crazy weather and spots of mould were all over a next to me, buggy, bouncer and playmats x

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Popped them in auction bags and lobbed into the loft. Need to go through it but just cba there’s so much 😂

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We have used the vaccum bags for everything - don’t necessarily vacuum it down for like the pram inserts but we have found the bags themselves to be brilliant. Popped a few sachets of silica gel in the big bits and then we stored in wardrobes and the garage. We have a 5 year gap and everything we kept was absolutely fine.

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Thanks mummies!

I’ll pop them all in the spare room.
They are currently in babies room but he needs to go into his own room now

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