AIBU to think if the charity’s don’t want them, good quality children’s clothes are just going to waste?

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I’ve spent today traipsing round several charity shops and none of them want children’s clothes.

They’re either overrun or Vinted has killed the charity shop demand for decent children’s clothes apparently.
Two shops suggested a clothing bank in a town an hours drive away, another suggested the clothing bin at the recycling centre.

All the clothes are new or nearly new and I’d not bagged up any primark or supermarket stuff as I thought most shops wouldn’t want that now. But turns out they don’t want anything!

Just seems such a waste!

Do you have a local Facebook gifting site? I'm sure somebody would value the clothes

Sort them out by age and gender and post them on your local facebook or freecycle group? Lots of Mums pass around bags of clothes on ours.

FB local give away groups. Works very well.

We hand over to a friend's daughter two years younger than our daughter. I just asked the mum and they were happy 'to help".

A lot of shops don't want them simply because they don't have enough volunteers to sort and price them.

Do you have a Salvation Army clothing bin? I had the same issue, where I didn’t want to bin perfectly good clothes and wanted them to be used. I googled and the S.A will resell, reuse or recycle.

Offer free on local pages, you will get takers.

How about an eBay auction. Collection only. Start at 99p.
You could group similar ages together as a bundle or sell as an assorted bundle for resale.

Otherwise our tip has a clothing bank - I wonder if yours does. We also get those bags through the front door regularly.

I’d not thought of the give away groups as we live quite rurally and haven’t really had takers for bigger stuff but could be worth a try.

@IwanttoWFH I’ll look into the Salvation Army, I’m not sure if there’s one nearby but now you’ve mentioned it, I’ll be visiting family soon and where they live there’s a big Salvation Army church so I could try there.

I'd definitely try Freecycle or Freegle, unless you're literally in the middle of nowhere. I've given away a lot of clothes and other stuff on there.

There are also textile bins in M&S and H&M although I'm not sure how ethically they actually dispose of them.

I try to sell what I can on vinted, then other stuff I give away to friends if I can but it’s the same with bric a brac and adults clothing.

Lots of charity shops round here have had signs up saying they won’t be taking more donations - I’ve offloaded some stuff on local Facebook pages and on school group chats etc..

There is an online charity called I collect that i use , you get to pick 2 collection dates and they email you when they can pick up , you leave the clothes etc outside and they promptly pick them up from your door .
Ive used then a few times and they’re really good , they also email when the bags have been collected.
It very efficient and so much easier than dragging heavy bags into town , they also take other items.

How about offering them to your local women's refuge . I read a message on here fairly recently that places like that are often short of children's clothes .