Our little guy is growing up fast. Each week we have a new pile of clothing and baby gear that he has outgrown. While we are keeping some things for kiddo number two (in a year or so, we hope) and giving some things to friends with babies, we have also accumulated quite a bit of stuff that we’d like to donate to families in need. For a while, we’d been toting those things (along with random household items) over to Goodwill, but I kept thinking there had to be a better place for those essential baby items than sharing shelf space with Aunt Mildred’s old percolater and an ice-cream making machine.
I recently came in contact with Baby Buggy, a New York City-based organization that provides equipment, clothing and products for families with infants and young children. They can arrange courier pick-up of your used baby goods for a fee, but we decided to skip the hassle of scheduling a pickup time and instead just filled a big box with baby clothes and bedding that we sent out by UPS Ground for fifteen bucks. It’s comforting to know that each of the things we put in the box is going to a little child who will use it.