What to do with your baby items when you don't need them anymore....

At the moment, we are starting to pack up for our big move in a few weeks (its going quite interestingly as CS is at the stage where he is keen to do what we are doing though occasionally this helpful other times not so much such as when he takes the dirty washing out the basket and puts it on the dryer or when he adds random items to the packing boxes!)

As CS is our first child we received a lot of clothes, some new and some from other family members children. Whilst we also bought a few items new, we found ebay was a great place to buy bundles of clothing from others. 

When CS gradually grew out of his clothes we generally passed them on to other family and friends to use with their wee ones before being passed back to us. We now have several boxes for various clothes both in our place and in my parents home, the majority of them still decent quality.

We're keeping some of the items for memories and some for possible future children. Quite a few though we are reselling on ebay for other families to use. 

Whilst ebay is a great place of the occasional bargain and free to sign up and buy from (if you also have a nectar card you can gain points on your purchases) they do charge for anything that you sell - you get 20 free listings per a month afterwards costing 35p per a listing - the amount you pay is dependent on how much you item sells for and how you are paid (if you are paid via paypal then there is an additional cost). 

There are other sites and pages where you can buy and sell your items without paying additional fees however you aren't guaranteed the same 

level of protection that you get with ebay/paypal and it may be difficult get your money back (depending on how you have paid).

Other useful sites include:

gumtree - prices vary depending on what you are selling and how you wish your ad to appear, though its generally free 

netmums - its free to join and you can advertise on the forum, they also have information on local nearly new markets

facebook - you can search for local buying and selling groups to your area/borough