The rules of baby clothes

[babyslime]

I will never understand the selling of used baby clothes as a regular thing. I totally get it if you're in need of money and have friends/others who want to help you out, that makes total sense… but as a regular thing? Like a, "my friend is having a baby, let me sell her my used baby clothes" thing? I don't get that

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[ppplmgwiw]

No way on 1 & 2. I've never given or received like that--clean absolutely but folded no.

[altarflame]

I agree - I've gotten MANY MANY hefty bags of clothes from all kinds of sources over the decades (my childhood, my pregnancies, my kids...) but how in the hell do you fold shit in hefty bags anyway?

Washed and organized by size, yes.

[jenrose1]

This.

[ppplmgwiw]

I've never sold used clothing or going to used clothing stores. My kids clothing have been hand-me-down so many times I've lost count. But wash clothing, sort into sizes, fix any rips, tears and even hems that are frayed. If a hem is so bad (like jeans) I will cut both hems, and then seam it up like it wasn't even worn. I have kids clothing that is over 15 years old that still looks new and been on so many different kids.

Another rule i would like to add that's not carved in stone: don't give the stuff away then want it back. It's rude to ask for clothing that you gave away. Even if you are expecting another child, it's rude to just say "you know that big ole bag of stuff I gave you years ago?" yes that bag, I want it back. That has actually happened to me. The person then wrote down all the clothing she apparently loaned out to me, not given.
And went through it all and took it all back even the stuff that my child hadn't worn or gotten to wear because it was too big yet. SCREW THEM I DON'T WANT THEIR SHITTY CLOTHING THEN!

[babyslime]

Serious? I've never had a bag given to me that wasn't washed and folded by size... And I never give away without at least TRYING to fold and organize.

[mammaopal]

I recently did a winter clothing drive for Attawapiskat, and filled an entire ROOM with donations from people. In my exprience, the higher up the socio-economic ladder the family who donated was, the more neat and tidy the donations were. Folded, sorted and smelling fresh only came from about 10% of the donations (and never sorted by size). The rest of them is a mish-mash, stuffed into bags.

However, the mailed donations from ME, are clean, folded and sorted by size, but I'm talking about boxes and boxes of clothing. I don't want to be a burden to the recieving end of the charity.

[ppplmgwiw]

Serious. I've NEVER received anything like that, never been bothered by it, and never had any complaints when I've passed on a bag of awesome, clean, disorganized free clothing. First thing I do with hand-me-downs is dump out the bag/box to see what I like and turf the rest--and that generally involves the child for whom the clothes are destined getting in there, too, grabbing and trying on, and playing, etc. Given that, any pre-folding/sorting would go to waste with me, so I'm glad no one I've ever known has done it!