Kyle
How can you save money on kid’s clothes? It’s a question millions of parents have, especially when their children are between newborn and size 5T. Forget about the problems you’re going to have when your kids get older, grow 3 inches in two months and need the latest fashions, just getting to 5T can be an economically taxing challenge.
Thrift stores and yard sales can be an easy way to acquire clothes for your kids but often times they are previous years styles, have stains on them or just don’t look right. What if there was an easier way to get clothes and not just pieces, but entire outfits?
Well that’s the problem that Chicago area entrepreneur Sharon Schneider set out to solve with her company Good Karma Clothing For Kids which has been relaunched as MoxieJean.
MoxieJean is so much more than just an online place to buy clothes for kids. MoxieJean sells gently warn kids clothes for newborns to size 5T and they’ve created a system that’s great for parents. MoxieJean is economical, easy to coordinate and even green.
Here’s how it works:
1. Moxie Jean buys only the best and cutest kids’ clothes from moms whose own kids have outgrown them. Moms get store credit for the clothing they send in, or they can choose to donate that credit to kids in need, as distributed by the staff of various charities.
2. Moxie Jean then steam the clothes at high temperatures, match them into outfits (rather than individual pieces) and group a few outfits of a similar style and feel into a “bundle.”
3. Bundles are photographed and posted on the site and moms can quickly hone in on the size and style line (e.g. “Little Miss Sunshine” for girls or “Prep School” for boys) they like.
4. With every purchase shipped out, Moxie Jean include a prepaid “Moxie Jean Mailer Bag” so that moms can send back anything that is still in great shape and get credit toward the next size up.
MoxieJean’s unique bundle system helps you by taking the outfit coordination off of your plate and of course keeps the pricing down low. Just how low, we asked Schneider:
For example, a new outfit from Janie & Jack is currently on sale for $35.99 ($14.99 for the tank top and $21.99 for the shorts) but we have a bundle including a Janie and Jack shorts set PLUS a Little Lindsay shorts set for $19.99. If you purchased them without the clearance prices, it would be far more…
To take a more “basic brand” example, we have a bundle with an Old Navy romper, a tshirt and Carter’s cotton pants. These items each retail for $5 or $6 new right now, at the height of the summer sell-off season, totaling $17 plus for the sake of argument let’s say $6 flat rate shipping from Carter’s. That’s $23. Our price is $11.99 with free shipping, which is about half.
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