Parenting: It’s 50% caring for your children and 50% sorting through their stuff. Am I right or what?
Clothes are the worst. From the precious newborn onsies you oohed and aahed over to the suit your little guy wore to your sister’s wedding, from favourite t-shirts to sparkly slippers, every item has a story. My closets are overflowing with stories.
And god help you if you ever think you might have more than one child. Your weekends become a never-ending parade of packing and unpacking and you convince yourself that shuffling giant Rubbermaid containers into and out of storage is just as good as going to the gym anyway. And still, there are heaps and piles and mounds of clothes as far as the eye can see.
But one day, my friend, you will finally be done. You will know you are ready to stop having kids because an uncontrollable urge to GET THIS PRECIOUS SHIT OUT OF HERE will spew six years-worth of boy’s clothing all over your dining room table. You can almost taste the freedom.
But what do you do with it all? Your sister’s co-worker’s cousin needs boys clothes, apparently. You could probably make a cool $20 on Kijiji, eventually, and it would only take ten hours of your time. But, really, you just want it out of your house, like, yesterday. Donating the lot of it to the local thrift store has usually been the best bet.
Until now. Minitrade.ca is an amazing new online consignment store for kids and I love everything about it. You send them your gently used, like-new kids clothes (they pay the shipping) and you get paid 20% of the resell price in either cash or store credit. So, clear out your closets and pick up some new summer duds for your kids in one fell swoop. How cool is that?