Kid's clothing swap on May 17

Clean out your little lovey's closet(s) and gather up unwanted, clean children's clothing and accessories they've outgrown or are no longer using and bring them to the swap!

WHAT: Free children's clothing swap

WHEN: Saturday May 17th **Please see below for times staggered by size**

• 11:00am – size 0 through size 24 months and maternity clothing
• 11:30am – size 2T-6
• 12:00pm – size 7-14+

Each swap will last about 30 minutes, be sure to arrive a little early.

WHERE: Milagro's Boutique, 5433 NE 30th Avenue, Portland, OR 97211 Telephone: (503)493-4141

Milagro's Boutique is located one block South of NE Killingsworth (between Killingsworth and Emerson) in Portland. Enter through the door to the left of the main store entrance; there will be signs directing you to the swap. While you're there, feel free to browse Milagro's wonderful selection of natural, fairly-made, and recycled products for families, visit their web page at www.milagrosboutique.com

BRING: Clean clothes in good condition with no rips, tears, visible stains, etc. There are no minimum requirements for how many items you have to bring or how many you can take but please be courteous and generous. Don't forget to bring a bag to carry home your treasures.

In addition to clothing you can also bring lightly used children's accessories and toys: socks, shoes, and boots hats, scarves, and mittens sunglasses and swimsuits bibs and bottles books, tapes, and CD's videos, and DVDs small toys maternity clothes* *If you are or you know anyone who is going to have a baby but has nothing to swap, please encourage them to join us, we always have plenty of 0 to 24 month baby clothes and other baby items.

Items that do not get swapped will be donated to low income and high needs families in our pdx community.

Email pdxkidswap@gmail.com if you have any questions about the swap or are not already on our email list and would like to receive email notification of future children's clothing swaps send us an email with the size and gender of clothing you will bring and the size and gender of clothing you need (we will not spam or sell your name to anyone.) The only membership rule is that you be respectful and have fun! Please bring only things listed on what to bring list.

HOW IT WORKS: Clothes will be separated into three major size groups and marked with signs. Add the clothes you bring into the matching size piles. It is recommended that you separate your clothing by size before the swap to save time and be sure to arrive a little early. The swap will begin as soon as everyone has finished placing their clothes in the appropriate size piles and the swap coordinator starts the swap. When the swap begins look through the piles to find the items in the sizes you need and put them in your bag.

NOTE: Milagro's has a small area available for children to play and the swap area is child proofed.

DONATE: If you would like to donate children's clothing to the swap send an email to pdxkidswap@gmail.com and we'll arrange for a pick-up. Please feel free to pass this information along to anyone who would like to donate children's clothing.