Outgrown Clothes

[cricketwife]

I sell on Facebook, porch pickup only. I love it. It’s super easy. And if someone doesn’t pickup, nbd, all I did was put it on my porch.

I think it’s great that people who give stuff away/donate. But for us, while we don’t “need” the money, it really adds up and helps our budget. Getting $1 here, $5 there paid for our family’s beach vacation last year, which we wouldn’t have done otherwise. (It wasn’t all clothes, there were a lot of toys too.)

But my strategy is also to deal with a little at a time. The minute something is outgrown, I list it. And when winter is over an I know my kid won’t fit in those clothes next year, I pull out all the worn/stained clothes and put all the nicer stuff in a bin labelled “to sell” and list it the following fall. I’m never dealing with bins and bins of stuff at once.

[mbcdefg]

We have friends with a daughter a bit younger than DD, so every few months we give them a box of clothes.

I’ve only sold some fancy newborn outfits that were gifted to us that DD never wore. Otherwise we don’t have any clothes that people would want to buy. Most of DD’s clothes are from Target, Carter’s, etc.

[luv2rn4fun]

I always donate to Goodwill. Our local one closed due to COVID (been closed for months). Since we have multiple friends who give us clothes (plus all of DS1’s clothes that we buy), we ended up having a good 8 bags and full closet of old clothes we needed to get rid of. We found that another Goodwill was still open and went to donate them. Feels so good to have the closet free again!

ETA: we don’t know any little boys who could use the clothes...if we did they would go there first.

[maudefindlay]

When I'm purging I just want stuff gone and right now the easiest thing has been to donate to a preschool and the kids' elementary school. They all need spares for any incidents that happen.

[joy]

I donate everything.

[minniemouse]

Mostly give to a friend for her dd. The rest is posted on our buy nothing group. I love that group. People have been great about picking up timely.

[aspentosh]

I still use FB groups 90% of the time. She wears mostly Hanna, Boden, Tea, Ivivva, and Athleta Girl. So I am in groups specific for those brands, which reduces fees (only PP) and then I can ship through PP for cheaper shipping.

If it doesn't sell on FB then I do Mercari or Kidizen. Sometimes post here because I can do lower cost to pass on but I feel like there isn't a market here that much.

And then if those don't work, I donate on my local buy nothing group. I also do this for things that she reaaaaaally wears because I hate the idea of putting in a landfill because of knee wear or whatever.

[mainelyfoolish]

When I have a couple of bags of outgrown clothes, I take them to Children’s Orchard. My store doesn’t require you to stay while they look at your items, so I drop the bags, run other errands in the area, and come back an hour or two later to collect my money and whatever they didn’t buy. Pre-COVID, my kid’s elementary school held a consignment sale and I would take the Children’s Orchard rejects and put those in the school sale for cheap ($1 for most things, not fancy brands, but still in decent shape) because the school benefited from that. Without the school sale, I now take whatever CO didn’t buy and drop them off at the thrift store down the road. I don’t make a lot of money selling the used items, but I figure whatever I get is a bonus because I bought the clothes for my kids to use, not with the plan of getting money back on reselling.

[sporklemotion]

I had a friend with kids 2 years younger than mine who took lots of my outgrown infant stuff. More recently, I have had great luck on my Buy Nothing group, but I don’t try to recoup anything. My girls were slow growers and stuff was worn a lot before passing on, and people were happy to take bags of clothes and either donate or pass on what they didn’t want.

[sandandsea]

We donate them. We have a few places still taking donations.

[ssmjlm]

Well I got my act together and went through the bin.

I’ve got 2 lots on the buy nothing group, listed some more Lilly online, and have a pile for the local consignment store.

[Poeticxpassion]

I donate most except for the occasional nice piece. I post on eBay.

Last June I used once upon a child and I had to schedule an appointment online. The store was limiting the amount of people in at one time, not accepting drop offs to buy items. It was a good experience.

[chickadee77]

I donate to our local shelter for abused women and children, since I usually keep a catch-all bag/box from both myself and my kids, so this way I don't have to separate. I used to take them to our local 2nd hand kids/maternity, but don't feel safe since they've posted a lot of anti-vax/anti-mask/covid denial stuff online and regularly advertise play gatherings (they also have a large play structure inside so kids can play while parent shop, which, in normal times, is AMAZING, but not so much right now).

I should probably try to sell, but I just don't have the energy to try to take pics/ship/etc. I wish I did, but I don't.

[ellipses84]

I’ve sold a little on my local moms group board, but most I just give away. We’ve been given lots of hand-me-downs so I give unisex stuff to my niece and give the rest away in my buy nothing group.

[sent]

I usually try to give it away on our mom's group. Someone always takes it. My husband is always eager to haul everything to Green Drop.

[edwardo123]

I usually donate to Goodwill or a local shelter. Lately, I’ve been giving a lot away on our neighborhood Buy Nothing group. I did a mom sale once and it was so much work and time for the $75 I made.

[chocolatepie]

He wears almost exclusively smocked/applique/boutique items that I buy on FB in BST or preorders. When he outgrows stuff, I sell them in those same BST groups and ship through Paypal. They hold their value really, really well.

We have some mall brands and Target stuff and I sell those through the semi-annual Rhea Lana consignment sale and donate anything that doesn't sell. They don't hold their value at all.

Shoes sell extremely well in the BST groups on FB, too, unless they are Target/Old Navy/Carters.

[bronxgirl]

The really nice pieces I sell on Ebay. The stuff that I don't think will go on ebay, but still in good condition I take to Once Upon A child. The stuff they don't take and the stuff i don't bring in there, but still has some wearability left I give to a friend with a younger daughter. Anything that's stained, torn, can't be worn I bring to fabric recycling.

[hbomdiggity]

Nothing. I’ve literally done nothing. I have 5.5 years worth of outgrown clothes (and shoes!) in my attic and spare bedroom closet.

[tripleshot]

DH is a school principal in a high poverty area. We give all of DS’s clothes to the school community liaison to give to kids in need.

[Pilsy]

I give everything away after DD2 uses it. I offer it to friends first, but then move to the buy-nothing site or a pick-up by Vietnam Veterans of America or Big Brothers Big Sisters.

[af1212]

I keep a few sentimental things to make a quilt with someday. The rest I give away on buy nothing.

[chedifuen]

I give everything away on Buy Nothing

[sdlaura]

I just got a facebook message today with the cutest picture of a baby in one of my kids' onesies that I gave away on Buy Nothing. It made my day that one of our favorite outfits is also one of their favorites!

[gastro]

For boys clothes I pass onto a friend, but I have two boys so by the time DS2 wears things they really aren’t in any shape to be passed on so it’s not much.
I pass my daughters clothes onto a younger cousin who has a baby girl about a year younger than my DD. I have to mail it to her though as she lives across the country so I only send nice things. She appreciates it so much and I often see the hand me downs in pictures so I know she is using them.
I donate wearable things that I haven’t passed on to a local woman’s shelter (they haven’t been taking things during Covid so I’ve been taking to Goodwill).