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I discovered this site today www.babysfirstplanet.com. I really like it. It aims to promote ecosound parenting by encouraging people to make small changes rather than being militant. It has a babycycling service. Does anyone else know of any sites, aside freecycle which can be very hard to get stuff from, where baby things can be recycled for free? I have found that stuff I advertise goes really quickly on freecycle but it is very tough to actually get stuff back. Baby items, especially, go within seconds. I feel very strongly indeed about upusing baby things but most of the sites, like green parent, seem to have a financial agenda. I would be grateful to hear what you think.

Cheers!

Given you posted on that site on 2nd March I think your definition of 'today' is a tad misleading.
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I've found that the best way to be given and give away used baby and children's things is at children's groups - so places like La Leche League meetings, NCT post-natal groups, playgroups. You get to know people and they get to know you and think of you when they have appropriate items to give away.

i have given up donating baby items on freecycle as your right they do go very quickly and theres very few thanks in return ive noticed too that a box of items i gave away was then sold on in the local paper i think freecycle has lost its way and a few people are seeing it as a money making exercise instead. the little one starts nursery soon and i have lots of books he doesnt need so im taking them to the nursery and the library ( where everyone can have access to them) rather than freecylce. the last of his baby things are going on ebay.

How about taking them to your local charity shop. Then you would be helping the charity and someone will be pleased to get a bargain.

Yep, mine tend to go to our local toddler group or the local hospice charity shop. I once Freecycled some stuff, and just to be nice I added this sing-a-long bus thing because the lady had mentioned that her son was mad about buses.

So, next day, I see a Freecycle message 'Offer: Singalong Bus - given to me for some bizarre reason, but I wasn't told how many batteries it needed - I wonder why!'.

I must say the words gift, horse and mouth did immediately spring to mind. Thing is, without the batteries, it was still a perfectly usable, moveable bus!

citizentwiglet wrote: So, next day, I see a Freecycle message 'Offer: Singalong Bus - given to me for some bizarre reason, but I wasn't told how many batteries it needed - I wonder why!'.

I must say the words gift, horse and mouth did immediately spring to mind. Thing is, without the batteries, it was still a perfectly usable, moveable bus!

The words stupid, ungrateful and cow came to my mind, but perhaps I'm not as kind as you

just saw the tittle of this thread and thought .. how many things can you make out of recycled babies?... ill get my coat

all of sophs stuff got passed on to epople i know. i now have a network of local friends who have little girlies younger than soph and so they get first pick of anything she grows out of.

Please do not forget your local hospitals childrens ward. We take any plastic toys and baby bits up for them, as lots get stolen . The Womens refuge, are also greatful for clothes, toys, equipment.
I too am sick of seeing stuff that I have freecycled being sold on. After I have stated on my ad not to. So I no longer use it.
Otherwise we pass clothes on to friends, and some of them pass their kids clothes on to us.
Last week I did sell some bits at the NCT sale, which gave me some money to buy my kids some clothes and toys there. I bought Teme a lovely wooden fire engine

At the risk of this turning into a Freecycle-bashing post, I've got fed up with it too, mainly because I'm fed up with time-wasters and people who are a nightmare to deal with when I'm giving them free stuff - I mean WTF?! Some woman recently has just taken the biscuit so I think that's me done with it. Personally I'm not fussed if people sell stuff on, if they can be bothered to when I couldn't or have the cheek to sell something a bit bashed up.

Like others I try to give things to people I know or to the charity shop, and we're fortunate to receive my friend's daughter's and niece's cast-offs for DD, not bad as they have rather a Mini Boden habit, woohoo! I will though eBay things if I need to buy more clothes/nappies with the proceeds. We're now through all the clothes my friend gave me for DS, that her son had outgrown, so I need to go a-eBaying again.

But to answer the original question, no, I don't know of any sites other than Freecycle that do this sort of thing.