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By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:29:48 +0000

My coworkers and I had a clothes swap today, we all invited tons of people, but not very many came. (There was a lot going on this weekend in my small town.) Even so we had tons of fun, and we had plenty of phone calls of people saying that they just heard about it and would love to come to the next one. I personally had a really good experience, and we decided that after we have the next one we will donate everything leftover to a local women’s shelter.

By: ithrift4fun

ithrift4fun — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:04:23 +0000

Oh and 1 more thing… some folks bring bags of clothes to contribute… others bring just one or 2 items. We don’t count and we’ve always had enough. We did implement “tickets” during the 3rd swap and have carried that forward. Basically each lady is limited to 12 items (which she pays for in tickets) the first time out to shop. Then we bring everyone together in our multipurpose area for some fun stuff (we always do some makeovers and lots of door prizes) and then we really encourage everyone to load up before they leave. All leftover clothing is donated to local charities… we had almost 30 garbage bags left over after our last swap.

By: ithrift4fun

ithrift4fun — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:00:57 +0000

We do this a couple of times a year at my church… Spring and Fall. We advertise it in the local papers, on Facebook,etc. At our first swap we had about 25 ladies and most of the clothes were clustered in the 10/12/14 size-range. The last few swaps have been more around 70 ladies, and we’ve had a better range. Women literally take home garbage bags of clothes, shoes, purses and accessories. We have plenty of fitting rooms and “stylists” on hand to help put outfits together, etc. We get everything from high end purses to Walmart clothing for the swap… anything goes. We had someone bring some prom dresses from the early 90s and some of us were looking very skeptically at them as they hung on the rack… 2 elderly ladies took them to wear when they go “dancing!” Not sure what kind of dancing they do in early 90s formalwear… but to each his own!