Getting rid of baby clothes....

jettagurl

What did you do? Donate? Sell on CL in lots?  Sell some on Ebay?  Consignment?  I'm swamped....and I need to get all the 0-9 month stuff out of here....and some of the bigger stuff as well so G & E do actually get some new stuff.  

Oh, and if you donate (or have an opinion) - we'd be donating to our church's clothing drive - do you know what the donated values are?  Its a small church, so we do a letter and our trustees would sign off on the donation/amount for tax purposes.

 

j-w

Now, I've never done baby clothes, but I have recently gotten rid of some of my clothes.  I have NO luck with ANYTHING on craigslist.  So, I would recommend ebay over cl.  I really don't care for consignment because it's like you have to constantly check back in to see what they've sold and they only take 'in season' stuff, so you are left sitting with what is not in season.  I wouldn't mess with consignment if you have a lot of stuff.  I would recommend ebay first, just make sure you cover shipping, and the fees.  I am new to selling on ebay, but have had good luck.  Anything that doesn't sell on ebay goes to Goodwill.

rachyru

I garage sale the really used/stained clothes for cheap

I ebay my gymboree

I am also part of a huge resale that a local church does (they have about 250 seller's) and they have a spring and fall sale every year. All my other stuff gets sold there.

If you give it to your church I would google or stop by a local goodwill. Mine has a printed out list of value to claim on each item for tax purposes.

elm1032004

we give the clothes away to people that we know who could use them. 

veloelle

I just went through 3 bins of DD's baby clothes. Two went to a friend of my sisters that just had a baby, and 1 bin is going to DH's niece.

If I didn't know people, I'd have donated them to our church's outreach and some to Goodwill. Nothing she had was of particular value, i.e. Carters, Target, Gymboree, etc. Nothing that was worth my time to list. 

edit: A huge reason we gave away all of her clothes is because we were given a lot of clothes when she was born, and a ton when we had DS since he was a boy, everyone thought we needed boy clothes. : ) AND I had two friends give me boxes of hand me down boy clothes for DS. Between hand me downs and new, DS is totally outfitted 0-9 months. He has 3 draws of clothes! I'm a big believer in pay it forward since we were so generously given new and gently used clothes. And, quite frankly, I'm way too lazy for CL or eBay.

Mrs Manners

I sell all of Sean's clothes at the twice annual kids consignment sales that we have in our area. I also buy many of his clothes there too.

JOEBunny

I gave most of mine to GoDawgs for her new baby boy who she is adopting this week.  I gave DD's to a cousin.