Some stores charge a fortune for maternity clothes, knowing consumers in many areas can’t just buy them anywhere. Maternity wear prices are ridiculous in stores like A Pea in the Pod and even the popular Motherhood Maternity is not that affordable for mothers who need a few items to pick up. The nice thing about maternity clothes is that just like infants, they are grown out of quite quickly. While one mother might keep hers on hand just in case or for another child that could come along soon, others are done having children and will no longer have any use for those stretchy pants that could hold a carnival watermelon; but tossing perfectly good clothes away is just stupid in the eyes of thousands of mothers, and they’re right. While it is pretty unlikely you will make back the money you paid for them in the stores, it is quite possible to make up to half back by selling to other mothers that need to save money and acquire some heavy duty elastic in a hurry.
We all know that Ebay and Amazon are kings of the resale industry and they truly are excellent sites to easily upload old movies, books, and clothes online for bargain shoppers to feast on. Placing an ad online to post items for sale only costs a few cents and is even free during their special promotions Ebay runs a few times each year. Just take some pictures and upload to the Internet for mothers of all fifty states to browse and ship to the highest bidder and quickest online customer.
Fellow mothers swoop in on the deals while you not only help another family save some money, you make a few bucks back and unload the storage space for more important items, like those photo albums you spent forever to put together and never look at.
In addition to the very famous Amazon and Ebay marketplaces, Emommie.com does the same but it’s strictly for maternity items for expectant mothers. So while the marketplace is smaller and the web traffic volume is as well, everyone browsing the site is a mother looking for only maternity clothes or others shopping for a mother who needs some so all are potential customers to take those old threads off your hands and put a little cash back in the wallet.
Remember that all three of these sites will require you to mail them off after the clothes have been sold so get some boxes ready and make an hour to go to the Post Office or have FedEx come pick them up.
For brand new maternity clothes with reasonable prices, shop at zappos.com, Target, Old Navy, JCPenney, and the bargain retail stores such as TJ Maxx and Marshall’s. Maternity clothes work great but all of these stores also have stylish clothes like comfortable pants with an elastic waist, flowing tops that drape over a baby bump while looking lovely with your gestational glow and their prices are far better than almost any maternity store you can find.
For moms who want more style and to splurge a little, Ann Taylor LOFT even sells maternity clothes; in case you didn’t know that little fact. Ann Taylor and her LOFT stores have been well known for decades for classy fashion and they made sure to include expectant mothers as well. Wasn’t that nice of them?
A Pea in the Pod and Motherhood Maternity of course will have pants, shirts, bras, and other items for mothers whom are with child but can run a little pricey, especially a Pea in the Pod so if budget is an issue, that might not be the first place to go. Also, local organizations and Planned Parenthood will have or know great places in town to get maternity clothes from donations or second hand stores for cheap clothing when money is even tighter than your current pair of jeans.
