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ThredUp: Online Swapping Just Keeps Growing

ThredUp: Online Swapping Just Keeps Growing

By Becky Striepe on May 27, 2011

Don’t you just love when a company that does good also does well?

ThredUp, the online clothing swap company, narrowed its focus last July to just swapping kids’ clothes. Now, the the San Francisco company has raised $8.7 million to help expand its services to even more parents.

Category: Living, Recycling Services, Shopping+Services | Tags: baby clothes, clothing swap, swap services, swapping, thredUP

Swap Your Stuff to Stress Less

Swap Your Stuff to Stress Less

By Becky Striepe on December 27, 2010

Swapping and other collaborative buying and using services are on the rise, and researcher Rachel Botsman studies the reason these systems are becoming more and more successful, and her findings are quite heartening.

Category: Innovation, Living, Shopping+Services | Tags: consumption, stuff, Swap, swapping, trading

Swap Services for Kids and Grownups Alike

Swap Services for Kids and Grownups Alike

By Becky Striepe on July 14, 2010

While one clothing swap service narrows its focus, there are some other great borrowing websites out there to pick up the slack.

Have you run across any of these borrowing and trading websites? We’d love to hear about others that are out there!

Category: Clothes+Accessories, Living, Recycling Services, Shopping+Services | Tags: borrow, children, children's clothes, clothing, clothing swap, hand me downs, kid, kids, reuse, Swap, swapping, thredUP, trade

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