Wispa I was bowled over with the amount of gifts and particularly clothes we were given, people were so generous and we were given gifts from people I really really didn't expect. I think people are just full of love and kindness for new babies! You may well be surprised at the amount of clothes.
We must have had easily 20 vests and babygrows if not more when he was in the first size and then the same for 0-3.
O is a sicky baby so despite the fact I've mastered the art of catching it with bibs and Muslins, we still regularly have 2-3 changes during the day and early days it was much worse, between sickness and him peeing the second I took his nappy away and soaking his vest we probably changed him up to 5 or 6 times a day easily.
I've actually just sat folding up O's clothes from the dryer and I have 23 bibs and 18 Muslins and 4 burp clothes in the washing and I think that's only washing for maybe 2 or 3 days.
Socks - O was only ever in babygrows for the first few months and because they have feet we never used socks. Even now at 17 weeks I still put him in some 'nicer' babygrows during the day and plain ones at night. I only really put an outfit on him if we're going somewhere and I only started that when he was about 12 weeks. We've got a lot of rompers though with no feet so those are the day ones with socks on. I don't have any problem with him keeping them on, but can't comment from a newborn stage. Our socks are from boots and I have some from asda, also no issues pairing them either, there is only ever 3 of 4 pairs in the washing at once so I just ball them together when dry and put them away.
Pram suit - O was early December and a teeny bubs so we bought a cosy first size pram suit and once we were actually taking him out and about anywhere he was in it all the time. It was cold and he needed the layers. About a month ago I ordered a stage 2 morrck and we now use this and not pram suits and just put a cardi on him if it's really cold.
Blankets - we have a few but only ever used one at a time on the pram and use them round the house if O falls asleep in his swing for example or to cuddle him up for a sleep if it's a bit cooler. I have a cellular blanket that we used for loose swaddling after he got to the point that he could riggle out of his swaddle blanket.
Scratch mits - most of the babygrows we got as gifts didn't have the fold over mits and O was a real face rubber and therefore scratcher! I struggled to keep the on to begin with but we had to buy tiny baby clothes anyway and these had fold over mits but I used them all the time with his 0-3 month clothes. Again I got a couple of packs of 2 from boots and they stay on fine. I still use them now actually if I'm taking O out as he tends to bring his arms out of the blanket and I don't want his hands getting cold.
One other thing to mention, the sizes vary a lot on the 0-3 months depending where they are from, some of them go up to 12lb and some are 14lb so I was thinking O was outgrowing his 0-3 but actually it was only the smaller stuff, the 14lb clothes still had a good few weeks left of growth space in them! Worth checking as I was about to clear out his wardrobe of all that size!