Smoke: You might want to check with TMC. Go to the counter and ask. They shd be able to advise. Or you can call them up. They are very friendly one.
Eliz: I went all out for new stuff for #1. She is the 1st baby in the family on both sides. And, I am like one of the 1st few in my group of friends who had a baby. Only got like a few pcs of hand me downs from a friend who got the items from another of his friend. Cos he had a boy and i had a ger. So he gave me the "unwanted" ger stuff.
Luckily with all the new stuff, she is still quite a good baby lar. Don't really have big problems with her.
Shopping: I also only started after 20 weeks. I did a lot of research and stuff on where to get cheaper stuff, but in the end we just walked into mothercare and bought all the big items, and bb clothes. Definitely not cheap lar, but, really save a lot of time.
Milk bottles, sterilizer, other feeding stuff, we got from Robinsons cos we had a lot of vouchers.
So all the buying was very very fast for us.
It's like, 1 week we had nothing at home, the next week we had everything at home and all ready for bb.