What do you do with your child’s outgrown clothes?

Miranda's already outgrown her fall le•top clothes!

The weather is getting warmer. It’s almost spring time…and my daughter is growing like a weed! When Miranda put on these pants (from le•top’s Flower Power collection from last fall) I knew it was time to start going through her clothes to see what I can put away. You might think that I’m still nesting, but this has become a ritual in my house ever since Miranda started outgrowing her baby clothes. I saved EVERYTHING! Well, almost everything. Stained or worn clothes went in a pile for donation. Torn or ripped clothes became either cleaning rags or were recycled. (Yeah, I’m green like that.) And now that Baby #2 is on the way, part of me is hoping for a girl so that I can pull out all of Miranda’s old clothes and put them on the next one.

Just out of curiosity, what did you do with your children’s outgrown clothes?

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Nesting phase… is it real?

A place for everything and everything in its place...for now!

My friend, Erin T. (everyone will soon realize I have many people in my life named Erin or Aaron!), is 7.5 months pregnant and never thought “nesting” was a “real” thing. More or less, she thought it was an excuse to stay home and redo a room or something…that is, until about two weeks ago when she called and said, “I have ten bags of baby clothes that were just handed down to me. Can you come over and help me sort through them?” Of course I said “YES!” Being in the children’s clothing business, I love going through baby clothes and see what people are putting on their kids (besides our brands!). Let me tell you, there were some really cute clothes in those bags…and I was very happy to see le•top and rabbit moon clothes (and no they were not from me) in the mix! We trudged through and weeded those ten bags down to about three, with the rest for donation. Whew! that was some work.

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