What do you guys do with your kids’ old clothes?
I am talking of those which show signs of being worn,like stains or some lint or slightly faded colors.A few have lost the original buttons(in the washer/dryer) and might have a mismatched button or so.
Should I dump them in those donation boxes which they have placed in some parking lots…??..leave them at Good will…??
The clothes I am talking about are not those which can’t be worn at all,because they can be.I am running out of space to store *all *of the clothes,and I think I don’t want to just throw them in the trash.What is my best choice to dispose them in a way that they can be used by someone??
I am going to donate my daughter's clothes to goodwill. One man's trash is another's gold (or something like that lol) so i am guessing someone will see the good in the not so decent ones and make an outfit out of it by replacing buttons or other crafty things with them.
We donated to goodwill. Some people I know send them to Pakistan to be given to poor folks there. They even send dresses of grown up folks to be donated to poor people.
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I think most of them will end up at Goodwill.These are the ones I don't want to save and know that I wont be using them for any future kids.
If it was an easy thing to do,I would have just sent them back home but that wont work out for now.
I will prefer goodwill over the boxes that you find in the parking lots.. what I have heard is taht at Goodwill, they actually sort them out and use locally right away but in the boxes things sit there forever and forever, get rotten, and most of it discarded later!!
I cant picture parting away with my baby clothes yet.. I may hang on to them forever :D
I will prefer goodwill over the boxes that you find in the parking lots.. what I have heard is taht at Goodwill, they actually sort them out and use locally right away but in the boxes things sit there forever and forever, get rotten, and most of it discarded later!!
I cant picture parting away with my baby clothes yet.. I may hang on to them forever :D
I used to think the same way just a year ago.I even had a hard time leaving her outgrown clothes in Pakistan just because my luggage was overweight.But they take up so much space,that unless I get that big house with walk in closets,I can't just keep everything.The basement is getting occupied with the bigger stuff,the swing,the old car seat..eventually the high chair has to join in there as well.My baby does need a bigger house...:D
There are charities that even come and pick up at your doostep. You don't even have to answer thedoor, just leave them out in trash bags orboxes marked with the name of thecharity and they will leave you a tax deductible receipt. VVA is one. There is also Women Another Chance and Children Home Society here in the States.
I am not hanging on to anything except his swing, car seat, gym. I made bags of clothes with 0-3, 3-6 months. Two seperate bags. He is now wearing 6+. I want to send them to Pakistan so I need to find someone who can take them. Maybe my MIL who is visiting me in few weeks will.