Rising Prices Don’t Mean Stop Shopping, Just Shop Smarter

By David Thompson , Parent Herald Feb 21, 01:11 pm

One of the biggest ticket items in any family's budget is clothing. If you have multiple children, the never-ending cycling through clothes can be overwhelming. And when you're done with them, donating or tossing clothes can feel like a huge waste. You know why - because it is! Those clothes, even some generously donated, don't always end up in a great place.

Did you know that 85 percent of our clothes end up in landfills or burned? This article also suggests that each one of us throws away roughly 91 pounds of textiles a year! That level of waste is just not sustainable in the face of rising prices.

Now, with the increase in inflation, the cost of clothes, and rising gas prices, the pressure on your pocketbook is more than ever before. That doesn't mean you have to stop shopping for your family - it just means shopping smarter.

One way to do this is by using re-commerce sites like Swap.com. Platforms like Swap offer a unique shopping experience, where you can sell gently used clothes and accessories and get a competitive commission. This preserves the value for you in the clothes you do buy and keeps them from ending up in a landfill.

Swap is changing the way people buy and sell their family's clothing and shoes. It offers endless choices at compelling prices and features one of the most competitive commission rates available to sellers. Swap's robust technology digitizes over 200K unique items per month, keeping these items out of landfills and finding a new market of buyers for them online.

Moreover, Swap has deep discounts on regular, everyday clothes for your family. So, using it regularly for both buying and selling can help take the edge off of rising prices.

This is especially important now as the online retail boom seen throughout the holidays and into January is expected to calm down. Sentiment indicators suggest that people looked past the rising prices and used shopping as a mode of self-care. As prices continue to rise, ignoring the inevitable will become harder and harder.

This is where a site like Swap can also help you - thinking about your purchase as cyclical, knowing you can eventually get some of the investment back, can help alleviate the guilt of spending money on clothes. And shopping smarter means you can get higher quality items at better prices.

Of course, it helps that doing all of this also helps the environment. Clothing production, or overproduction, is one of the biggest contributors to carbon emissions. One way to curb that damage is to buy on the secondary market. Less demand will slow production and using clothes to their full potential instead of burning or trashing them makes a positive impact on the destructive clothing-making cycle.

Right now, Swap is one of the only sites that offers this complete solution - buying and selling everyday clothes and shoes. Its leadership team is passionate about making secondhand clothing readily available at any price point. This is what really set sit apart from any other marketplaces.

It's ability to offer so many products for resale means it is in position to make meaningful changes to fashion's impact on the environment.

So, what are you waiting for? Get shopping! And if you're not sure where to start, we've got a few suggestions that are easy to do right now.

Set up a few searches for sizes, brands, or colors that will alert you when new inventory is added. This is true for most e-commerce sites but it's very powerful on Swap since they add thousands of items each day.
Come up with an easy way to sort your family's clothes so that when it's time to ship them to a seller you don't have a daunting task ahead of you.
Sign up for email or text updates to get discounts and coupons instantly.

As prices continue to rise, don't let that stop you from shopping to alleviate stress. The trick is doing it in a way that helps your pocketbook and the environment. Shop smarter by using re-commerce sites like Swap to curb the effects of inflation and higher prices on your family's budget.