To think that is not a tea stain!

[MistyMinge]

Someone on a local Facebook second hand baby stuff page is actually trying to sell this mattress!

A few comments asking WTF - apparently it's a tea stain 😂

She only wants a fiver for it. What a bargain.

She's turned off commenting. Such a shame as it was just getting interesting.

But you still brought the post here in the hopes others would ridicule her?

I once had a baby sleeping bag thrown out of an NCT sale due to a cluster of mysterious brown stains (the hazard of sorting things up for sale late at night in a dim room is that you don't always spot things) . God knows what they were but they were in completely the wrong place for poo and you can't boil wash grobags. I ended up Freecycling it with a listing saying "it's got a cluster of mysterious brown stains but I swear on my life they're not poo". Taker was very grateful.

But at the same sale one seller came to me absolutely gutted because she'd found a pair of her wellies in the Reject Box Of Shame with a lengthy note saying that their condition was disgusting and she should have some self-respect - the subtext was that she should fuck off and wasn't wanted here. Now granted muddy wellies are not acceptable at a Nearly New Sale - you should definitely wash them first. But you will be unsurprised to hear that the seller in question was the only working class person in the room, making badly-needed money from canny upselling from bootfairs I suspect, and the zealous checker was the SAHM wife of an investment banker.

Oh no poor person they must be absolute rock bottom. This really made me . Why else it is terrible.

I'm not sure what your point is actually - the working class person should be allowed to sell muddy wellies? The investment bankers wife only picked on the working class persons wellies and let posh people see dirty things?

I don't like the undercurrent to this thread that poor people don't understand they need to clean it before they sell it?

Posh people sell not see

I don't get being "absolutely gutted" at being told not to put mud encrusted wellies on your stall. If I'd been the checker I'd have told her the same thing?

And brown stains in the wrong place for poo?? Does shit only stick to very specific locations, then? Most people would have put it in the bin at that point??

The undercurrent was that the checker was absolutely entitled to chuck it out, just as she had with my dodgy grobag, but that the unprecedented severity of the associated comments was not warranted and was almost certainly based on economic and class discrimination. I'm not sure how it fits in with the OP's grim example but it came to mind.

The brown stains were tiny and on the outside front but not the inside or the back so yes it would have been physically impossible for them to be poo unless baby was a very odd shape.

It's a priceless Easter bargain, right up there with the Turin Shroud.

Which was thought to be a result of bilirubin leakage, so technically being shit-stained just adds to the authenticity of the piece. Bid high, I say.

It would only be economic and class discrimination if the more affluent sellers also had stalls full of muddy goods, but it was accepted as classy muck, far superior to crappy old working class muck.
Jesus, don't try to sell shite and you won't have to hear someone call you out on it!
Why did the fact that the seller badly needed money excuse her from cleaning the crap off her boots first?

highinthesky now that is funny

Another agree here for the 'Don't assume being skanky is synonymous with being poor' (having grown up poor myself).

I do have a toddler from whom those stains could be tea, though! She's been keen on having a swig sip from our cups as long as she's been aware of it (and no, we don't let her have much), and loves ripping up teabags...

I'm poor and trying to sell as much unneeded stuff as possible. But I would never try to sell something as dirty as those clothes.
Being poor doesn't mean dirty or lazy.

And babygrows in this condition would be swimming in bleach for several hours in my house. And after that - passed on for free, as after bleaching they lose their shape and colour, so can't be sold as new or very good condition.

Ffs stop trying to poverty shame the op.

Just because someone is poor doesn't mean they are a skank! This is disgusting and should be rightly laughed at!!

Why should it be laughed at? We don't know anything about this person. They may be taking the mick or they may be desperate. Who knows. Nobody is going to buy it anyway.

God MN can be so patronising sometimes. The vast majority of people, rich, poor and in-between, are perfectly capable of understanding that no one would ever want their grotty old mattresses and clothes that are covered in bodily fluids.

Some people are just gross and don't have a proper barometer for judging how disgusting something is and others just can't fathom the idea that something they paid good money for is now worthless, no matter how filthy or broken it is.

I came to post the same thing as you kmc1111. All this handwringing over the poor little poverty stricken mummy is as patronising as hell, as is "well it happens at the NCT too". Anyway, WTF is poverty shaming? Is that a new thing for the middle classes to get up in arms about on behalf of others?

Most normal, self respecting people, rich or poor, can tell the difference between acceptable and fucking gross. Any self respecting "poor" person would die before putting something that repulsive on the internet.

What I would find sadder would be that someone was so desperate they actually bought this stuff

Absolutely

I don't like the undercurrent to this thread that poor people don't understand they need to clean it before they sell it

Indeed and it's a bad show that the OP has been given dog's abuse by folk who are too quick to assume poor people are desperate and dirty so we shouldn't shame them because nice affluent ladies are Teflon coated from skank.

I feel sorry for the baby who used those things.

Shaming her for having a low IQ or being poor is equally not very nice. I don't think many people bother selling used baby stuff unless they need the money or it was expensive designer stuff that you can recoup some of the extortionate cost by selling on. If you didn't need the money you would pass on to charity or to a friend for free.

She may well not be able to afford to buy vanish or whatever to clean them up fully, I couldn't afford that sort of stuff when I went through a two year period of living hand to mouth, and that was before we had dd and all the added expense of a child. Once you've run out of stuff that the pawn shop will take you really are on the bones of your arse. This has just made me feel really sorry for this lady, laughing at people for this sort of thing is in really poor taste and shows the sort of person you are (and it isn't a positive reflection)

Smacks of gloating to me op.

But you still brought the post here in the hopes others would ridicule her?

Do you say that to every single person on here who posts about fb selling?

Unsure why the OP is being singled out for this when hundreds of people post similar things.