The woman to my right had her strategy mapped out. She and both of her children had trash bags and were positioned next to the tables heaping with the clothing sizes most likely to have what they needed.
When the magic words: “Let’s swap,” rang out, they were ready to dig.
Out of the corner of my eye, I was marking a sparkly green halter top across the table and a pair of boys sweatpants that nearly exactly matched the pair my son managed to rip at school last month.
The woman to my left started searching through the pile in front of us, stuffed with the remainder of my younger son’s too-small rompers that I had brought to swap.
The Swap Phoenix Clothing Swap group is run through the meetup.com website and meets once a month at different locations around the valley to swap clothing of all sizes. The idea is simple: bring what you don’t want or use and trade it for clothing you want or need.
It was started by a woman in Phoenix with a family of 7 kids (yeah, I know). Her name is Katherine and every swap she brings her kids along as involuntary helpers to sort the clothes and help out those that come.
In the end, I wasn’t able to score the green halter top, but I did go home with a great pair of embroidered jeans.
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