Come Swango With Me!

Like to buy used clothes but hate trying to find a good thrift shop or search through the endless racks for something in your size that didn’t go out with the 80’s? Then Swango, is the place for you! It’s an online clothing swap/non-profit. You simple upload a picture of the clothing you have that you don’t want anymore, and when someone “buys” it you recieve credits with which to “purchase” something else on the site. Everything has a $.99 transaction (some of which goes to keeping the site running and the rest of which goes to Dignity U Wear, a foundation that provides new clothes for disadvantaged kids), and costs a number of credits ranging from 2 to 6. Shipping costs are split between seller and buyer, usually amounting to about 2 bucks a pop. That’s actually cheaper than my local thrift store for items like jeans and dresses especially.

It seems like a great system. Not only does it prevent clothes build-up by making you give something to get something, it goes to good cause and ensures that the buyer doesn’t just throw their old stuff away when they get new things. Plus, for the first ten items you post, you get 1 credit each just for putting them up! I haven’t put up anything yet, mostly because I’m at work and don’t have snapshots of my wardrobe handy. Also, most the clothes I have that I don’t wear I’m holding onto in the perhaps vain hope that I will one dya soon lose weight and fit into them again. But I’m sure I can rustle up something to try and swap for that adorable, cowl necked cashmire shell I saw on the site…

~ by lycaon on January 22, 2008.