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Babyclothesconfused · 2025-08-30T15:34:40+00:00

One of the Mums in the village offered up a huge box of old baby clothes for free. There wasn't much interest (I know as she put it twice on the WhatsApp group) so I said I'd have them. Anyway I've grabbed the few bits I want and some for a friend but lots of them are wrong season for DD and not quite my style. They are also quite well washed (no complaint they were free!). I was thinking I might put them on Vinted in big very cheap bundles and see if they shift. I could give them to charity but wondering if a charity shop would actually want them? Is it ethical to sell them on Vinted when I could technically give them to charity?

Autumn1990 · 30/08/2025 19:27

I’d sell them on Vinted. They’re most likely to go to someone who needs cheap baby clothes that way.
The clothing banks just go for recycling or cause problems in other countries

Digdongdoo · 30/08/2025 19:37

Babyclothesconfused · 30/08/2025 19:24

It's depressing! It's the waste I don't want more than anything. Most of the clothes are summer ones and don't really want to store them in my house for 6 months on the off chance someone might want them then.

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Chuck up on vinted for a quid if you feel iffy about profiting. Good for you taking responsibility for your stuff, rather than just shoving in a bin with no thought to where they'll go.

xsquared · 30/08/2025 21:03

Babyclothesconfused · 30/08/2025 16:50

I think they won't sell in a 20p for an item bin in a charity shop but someone would spend £2/£3 on a load of clothes of the same size yes.

Charity shops have more clothes then they know what to do with and have to pay people to take away the rags.

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It's not true that charity shops pay for rags to be taken away, as its the other way round. The charity shop bags up the rags and they get paid per bag, so it's a source of income for them.

Sell them if you're determined to. You don't need to justify yourself. I'm just surprised that you think they're good enough for vinted but not the charity shop.

Digdongdoo · 30/08/2025 21:05

xsquared · 30/08/2025 21:03

It's not true that charity shops pay for rags to be taken away, as its the other way round. The charity shop bags up the rags and they get paid per bag, so it's a source of income for them.

Sell them if you're determined to. You don't need to justify yourself. I'm just surprised that you think they're good enough for vinted but not the charity shop.

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There's no money in rags anymore. It's usually not worth the storage space, if they can get anyone to buy it.

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Babyclothesconfused · 30/08/2025 21:09

xsquared · 30/08/2025 21:03

It's not true that charity shops pay for rags to be taken away, as its the other way round. The charity shop bags up the rags and they get paid per bag, so it's a source of income for them.

Sell them if you're determined to. You don't need to justify yourself. I'm just surprised that you think they're good enough for vinted but not the charity shop.

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That may be the case I've read lots of conflicting things.

It's not about the money at all which will be hardly anything. More about how to not waste them. I think I probably worded my AIBU wrong.

Kind of depressing you can't even give clothes away!

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sexnotgenders · 30/08/2025 21:15

Another one suggesting you try your local women’s refuge. I have donated a lot of baby clothes and other items to them and they were enormously grateful as they said they were always desperate for clothes given so many of their residents flee with nothing

ClassicalQueen · 30/08/2025 21:17

It’s very cheeky, I’d donate them to a women’s shelter or children’s charity. Even if the clothes can’t be used the materials can be recycled.

IGaveSoManySigns · 30/08/2025 21:18

There’s a million and one places you could donate to before selling. Reach out to local shelters and local authorities who may be able to use them for children in care. If that all fails, post on your local Facebook groups - there may be women who are going through DV etc who could take them. Contact food banks, churches, local baby groups. Offer them on Facebook marketplace for free. If you don’t get any interest, go back to the mum and ask if she’s okay with you selling them - she might wish to herself or want to take them back.

Pastelpoppy · 30/08/2025 21:32

I had a load of baby clothes from dd, they were lovely and a lot weren’t worn at all. I went round all the baby banks in my area and some a bit further away, none of them were accepting clothes. I put them on fb marketplace for free and no takers. I put them on vinted in large bundles for £1 each and they sold instantly. I did list them really well though - with good photos and detailed descriptions of what was in the bundles. I wasn’t bothered about making money, just didn’t want them to be wasted. I know this doesn’t answer your question but just to say it’s sometimes quite hard to shift baby clothes, even if free.

Boriswentcamping · 30/08/2025 21:50

I’ve done this but I checked with the person who gave them to me first. It was a big bag and I didn’t have space for them all, and also some didn't fit. I could have given them to charity? but for me it was more about making sure the clothes found a new home and a second wear. I sell on vinted more for ethical reasons than to make money. anything I do make is a bonus, and I’ll use it for my own kids clothes which I’ll sell on again if they are in good enough condition. I will always be honest when selling if they were second hand to me. Most people giving away baby clothes just want to be rid of them to make space. It a lot of what gets given to charity doesn’t sell and ends up as waste. My freind didn’t mind and I didn’t make enough money to feel guilty about it. I was just happy that somebody could use them. I think baby clothes are tricky for charity shops to sell. But like you say bundles of the same age clothes on vinted will get more interest and hopefully avoid landfill… Maybe just ask first

NuovaPilbeam · 30/08/2025 21:56

Sorry but i don't buy this.

If you find someone to pay to buy & have them to be posted to them via Vinted, you can find someone locally who'll take them off your hands for free. Offer them to a women's refuge or the like.

Starling7 · 30/08/2025 21:58

SummerFrog25 · 30/08/2025 16:38

I wouldn't feel ok about selling them, but any method of giving them away for free would be fine.

EDIT TO ADD: because it's getting in my nerves! Despite what the EBay Ad says you cannot 'sell things for free'!!

2nd EDIT to add: I must read your post! But my comment re eBay ad still stands. However, yes unless you are desperately skint I think it's not on to sell something you got free, but I know plenty disagree with that.

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Why can't you sell on Ebay for free?

Starling7 · 30/08/2025 22:00

Babyclothesconfused · 30/08/2025 16:43

The thing is they were offered to about 50 people on a WhatsApp group and no one else wanted them. I've taken the ones which are any good for people I know. I don't think they are good enough quality for a children's charity.

I suppose I could give the half decent ones to a charity shop and then bin the rest. I think giving them all to a charity shop means they'll either be a lot given to rags and it seems unfair to create admin for the charity shop workers. Whereas in similar size bundles they might sell.

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You could put them on free cycle?

Talkwhilstyouwalk · 30/08/2025 22:02

Take them to one of those firemen clothes bins that they have at the supermarkets.

Dave57 · 30/08/2025 22:02

Anything gifted gets gifted on. It would be rude to do otherwise.
Charity Shop
Fb page / market place - free to good home

LivingWithANob · 30/08/2025 22:04

Lowest you can sell on vinted is £1 i think. Pop them on for that and see it as payment for your wrapping supplies/effort.

PoppySaidYesIKnow · 30/08/2025 22:04

Offer Free on Facebook marketplace - you’ll have a wider audience.

BadSkiingMum · 30/08/2025 22:06

https://babybankalliance.org/baby-bank-map/

I sometimes send items in a cheap Evri parcel to my local baby bank if I am not likely to be passing.

readingmakesmehappy · 30/08/2025 22:10

Anything I was given for free as a hand me down gets given away on local WA groups. Anything I bought gets sold on Vinted. I don’t think it’s right to profit financially from others’ generosity.

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Babyclothesconfused · 30/08/2025 22:28

IGaveSoManySigns · 30/08/2025 21:18

There’s a million and one places you could donate to before selling. Reach out to local shelters and local authorities who may be able to use them for children in care. If that all fails, post on your local Facebook groups - there may be women who are going through DV etc who could take them. Contact food banks, churches, local baby groups. Offer them on Facebook marketplace for free. If you don’t get any interest, go back to the mum and ask if she’s okay with you selling them - she might wish to herself or want to take them back.

She 100% doesn't want them back. They were going in a clothes bin. I've taken out the ones I think I can use and a friend.
They are all summer ones 6 months- 12 so I can't think any shelters or baby banks would want them hanging around for 6 months. I am going to offer them around a bit more.

Honestly I wish I'd just titled this "what to do with a load of unwanted baby clothes". I just thought Vinted might be a solution so they don't go to waste if someone had just had a baby and was very organised. But it's a lot of faff for a few quid so it probably will end up being the clothes bin!

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notacooldad · 30/08/2025 22:39

If a charity shop doesnt want them a stranger doesnt want to pay for them

Not necessarily true. Our hospice charity shop and also air ambulance shop don't want baby clothes because they have too many of them. They have more clothes than new or pregnant mums coming in. A stranger may not be going to the charity shop for clothes especially if they have to make a trip into town. On Vinted and the like they can just scroll through and get things delivered to their house.

KeenGreen · 30/08/2025 23:00

I don’t think it’s appropriate to profit off of them. Giving to charity is fine.

I personally find baby clothes really hard to part with. I have (admittedly) an over the top emotional attachment.
My son was almost 3 and I still had everything, he’s is my only and was a big challenge to conceive and so I felt overly emotionally attached.
he was premature and we had lots of tiny things also.
SIL fell pregnant with a boy, was unemployed her partner a total waste of space, and I asked her if she would like things… she said yes. She also had lots of our baby equipment including travel system (which was £800 new) and I bought her a brand new car seat to go with it as her baby gift.

I carefully sorted through everything kept only a few of the most sentimental things.
I found it hard to sort them and give them away (emotionally) but gave her enough clothes for first 0-2 years. All good quality stuff in good condition, I took out stuff that wasn’t good enough condition and there was still enough there! Brands like next, blade and rose, and scandi brands like Frugi.

I was devastated that I saw she had posted bundles of it on Facebook marketplace only keeping a few bits, I thought it was really rude and it hurt me lots as I wasn’t really ready to face getting rid of it all but did so because she was in need and I felt like at least it was being used.

She went and bought a load of Nike and under armour tracksuits for baby. And constantly buys those kinds of expensive clothes.
She had another baby boy a year apart from the first, very occasionally she has them in the gifted outfits. When she was pregnant with the second she sold the travel system to get a double (MIL asked me first this time as I told her I was previously upset with the clothes, and I said it was fine).

So ridiculous long comment aside, don’t sell them she may be a sentimental fool like me who is too emotionally attached to clothing for whatever reason… instead either offer them back so she can regift them or donate them.

FloorWipes · 30/08/2025 23:14

This is definitely fine to do. People who say you are profiting off them aren't making sense. The effort and cost of posting, packaging and sending isn't even being compensated if you put them on at minimum prices. It's just the easiest way of sending them somewhere they might actually get used. Go for it.

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Babyclothesconfused · 31/08/2025 06:57

KeenGreen · 30/08/2025 23:00

I don’t think it’s appropriate to profit off of them. Giving to charity is fine.

I personally find baby clothes really hard to part with. I have (admittedly) an over the top emotional attachment.
My son was almost 3 and I still had everything, he’s is my only and was a big challenge to conceive and so I felt overly emotionally attached.
he was premature and we had lots of tiny things also.
SIL fell pregnant with a boy, was unemployed her partner a total waste of space, and I asked her if she would like things… she said yes. She also had lots of our baby equipment including travel system (which was £800 new) and I bought her a brand new car seat to go with it as her baby gift.

I carefully sorted through everything kept only a few of the most sentimental things.
I found it hard to sort them and give them away (emotionally) but gave her enough clothes for first 0-2 years. All good quality stuff in good condition, I took out stuff that wasn’t good enough condition and there was still enough there! Brands like next, blade and rose, and scandi brands like Frugi.

I was devastated that I saw she had posted bundles of it on Facebook marketplace only keeping a few bits, I thought it was really rude and it hurt me lots as I wasn’t really ready to face getting rid of it all but did so because she was in need and I felt like at least it was being used.

She went and bought a load of Nike and under armour tracksuits for baby. And constantly buys those kinds of expensive clothes.
She had another baby boy a year apart from the first, very occasionally she has them in the gifted outfits. When she was pregnant with the second she sold the travel system to get a double (MIL asked me first this time as I told her I was previously upset with the clothes, and I said it was fine).

So ridiculous long comment aside, don’t sell them she may be a sentimental fool like me who is too emotionally attached to clothing for whatever reason… instead either offer them back so she can regift them or donate them.

She sounds very thoughtless but it's not really the case if you read my posts. The Mum just wanted rid of them!

I usually give on baby clothes to other people if I possibly can. I currently have a box from DD of her really nice stuff I'm struggling to part with!

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TulipCat · 31/08/2025 06:58

readingmakesmehappy · 30/08/2025 22:10

Anything I was given for free as a hand me down gets given away on local WA groups. Anything I bought gets sold on Vinted. I don’t think it’s right to profit financially from others’ generosity.

Most of the time it isn't "generosity" though, people just want the stuff out of their hair, that's why they give it away. All this angst about profiting is misplaced in my opinion. We're talking about twenty quid max from the dregs of a bundle that the previous owner wanted rid of.