Don’t Get Fed Up; Get ThredUP
The average kid outgrows more than 1,300 pieces of clothing by the age of 17. Crazy, right? For those of us who feel a little guilty for consuming so many materials and leaving such a footprint -- but who still have to contend with the ever-changing trends our kids expect to keep up with -- there's a convenient solution, and in true modern fashion, it's 100% online.
ThredUP, based in San Francisco, offers a completely virtual wardrobe refreshment service for toddlers, teens and in-betweens, and you can contribute to it while you're reaping its benefits. Essentially an online consignment store, ThredUP has more than 3,600 pages -- that's pages -- of top-branded clothing and shoes for kids, searchable by brand, color, category, size and gender. Everything the site offers is up to 75 percent off original retail price ($15 pink L.L. Bean wellies for the little princess? Yes, please!), and the first order's shipping is free.
Thanks to this smart, no-nonsense site, families can stay in fashion without being wasteful, and save fuel (and stress!) in the process. Economical and practical, we'll bet no family using its services will ever outgrow them.
