Kids clothes can be expensive AF, which is why parents in the past few decades have wised up and started reselling outgrown baby and toddler gear to each other for a fraction of the cost. It's a helpful financial shortcut for any parent, but some parents? Well, let's just say they make reselling baby clothes into a competitive sport. Most reselling happens in online groups, message boards, and on social media. One mom on Facebook recently wrote a hilarious post about all the different parents you meet in those groups, and her descriptions are so spot-on they have parents lol-crying.
A mom wrote on Facebook that she's been a part of a resale page for a while, and she's "learned a few things" along the way.
"First of all, resale mothers are psychotic," she wrote. "Linda is asking SEVENTY TWO DOLLARS for GENTLY USED PAJAMAS YALL. BuT tHeYrE sO sOfT!! LINDA: THATS A WEEKS WORTH OF GROCERIES YOU ASKING ME TO SPEND $72 ON. advice: let your child sleep naked. It is free."
And then there are the moms who obsess over name brands.
"Nancy is asking $100 as her let-go price for the world's gaudiest, mess of a romper that she bought simply for the name brand that it is," Mitchell wrote.
And that's not even including the shoes. "I just saw a pair of toddler converses for sale for $50. I assume the mother is on drugs because why would you ever?" she asked. "Mini Melissa’s. Plastic (?) character shoes. Not cute. Expensive. Don’t understand."
Not to mention, the cleanliness and quality of the clothing is totally lacking.
"This outfit has pit stains, dog slobber, ripped out seams, and the Scarlett letter 'A' in black permanent marker. Asking $22. Huh!?" Mitchell joked. "Denise. Honey. That outfit is $28 brand new. Your child has drug it through the ringer, it obviously has never seen pre wash stain removal, and your child has probably committed a felony in it. Knocking off $6 and labeling it 'play' is not a deal or a steal."
And finally, she asks the question on everyone's mind -- why do these people have so manyclothes?
"Obscene amounts of clothes. I cannot express to y’all how many women start their 'purges' (but not like the movies where you kill people, but same amount of intensity) with something like 'we bought WAYYY too much, Brentleigh Fentleigh Pinot Noir never even got to wear this,'" she wrote. "Well Sheila, that’s because you bought 112 newborn outfits. Where are you going that you think your newborn needs to be changing 22 times a day?"
Not to mention, she added, that she's in a group of 53,000 people and she seems to only see the same few people buying things every day. "Sis. What do you or your baby daddy do for a living that you can sit at home all day and dress Braxtlynn and Jameithlynnette in sister outfits that cost $45 a piece?" she asked. "Your kids are walking around in $90 everyday. Wut."
Since her post went up, it's been shared more than 18,000 times, and people are dying over it.
Hey, at least the resale groups almost seem worth the crazy if you can meet other moms like her!