“thredUP Brings Kids Clothing Swaps to U.S. Military Families Stationed Overseas - YAHOO!” plus 1 more |
| thredUP Brings Kids Clothing Swaps to U.S. Military Families Stationed Overseas - YAHOO! Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:01 PM PST In honor of Veteran's Day, thredUP, the premier peer-to-peer online children's clothing exchange, has extended the popular swapping platform to U.S. military families stationed overseas. Cambridge, MA (Vocus) November 10, 2010 In honor of Veteran's Day, thredUP, the premier peer-to-peer online children's clothing exchange, has extended the popular swapping platform to U.S. military families stationed overseas. For the first time, U.S. military families can connect from anywhere in the world and swap 100% online. Following the company's spring launch, the team at thredUP quickly recognized a universal need for reasonably priced, easily accessible children's clothing on military bases. thredUP has extended the swapping service to ensure all U.S. military families have convenient access to affordable kids clothing. thredUP is now the complete end-to-end swapping solution for U.S. military families anywhere in the world. Military families stationed abroad can connect with thousands of parents online and exchange kids clothing from the comfort of home. From a technical standpoint, international swapping functions just like the domestic service: pick a box, list a box, send a box. thredUP's integration with the USPS and use of flat rate boxes allow for exchanges to and from any APO/IPO address globally. While all swappers pay only $5 + shipping, military members receive 33% off a thredUP PRO membership and other exclusive member benefits. "Having been stationed overseas, I know how isolating the experience can be for military spouses. Exchange rates, travel difficulties and limited on-base selection can make clothing your family cumbersome and costly," says Sara Gibb, Chief Military Mom at thredUP. "With this swapping expansion comes a little piece of home for U.S. military families across the globe. A military spouse stationed in Germany can now send outgrown clothes to a family in Texas, while ordering a box of clothes from her cousin in California. As a military wife and mother, I'm thrilled to support U.S. military families internationally this Veteran's Day by announcing thredUP's exciting expansion." In addition to thredUP's overseas reach, the company will allow its members to "support the troops" this Veteran's Day. thredUP users can gift "box picks" to military families, donating their extras credits to express gratitude. For more information about thredUP please visit http://www.thredup.com/military . Testimonails from the Military 'Pilot Program' "I am a military wife stationed in Bamberg, Germany. We have been here for a year and a half, and I am missing my thrift stores and consignment shops back home. thredUP has helped me to find inexpensive clothes, and it's also a nice little 'surprise' not knowing exactly what's in the box! Thank you for working with military families." --Rachel "We are stationed over here in Okinawa, Japan with the USMC and have been for over a year now. We have a 2 year-old daughter who seems to be growing non-stop! thredUP is helping me to swap out the clothes my children grow out of to get brands 1000 times cuter than what I'm able to find over here. thredUP is making it more convenient for me in so many ways -- it really helps off set our budget and it's so easy! Thank you so much for doing this special program for us. --Nicole About the company thredUP.com is the brainchild of co-founders James Reinhart, Oliver Lubin, and Chris Homer. Both Reinhart and Homer are recent graduates of the Harvard Business School and all three developed the idea in the Spring of 2009. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and is advised by current Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. ### Karen Fein This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Hook a kid up for Christmas, and make your day - Chicago Sun-Times Posted: 20 Nov 2010 02:52 AM PST When I was a little kid, I never asked Santa for clothes for Christmas. Never. No matter how strongly my mother might have suggested it. I was all about the toys. It was a disappointment to find clothes under the Christmas tree. My thinking was that if mom thought I really needed clothes so much then she and my dad could make their own arrangements with Santa, which is often what they did, because we were not an affluent family, and they were sensible parents. I've talked to enough people about this subject through the years to know we were not unique in this regard. And that's just one of the many reasons that I'm a big fan of the Sun-Times' annual Season of Sharing program and its letters to Santa. You see, we're expecting to handle some 13,000 letters this year from young children -- preschool through third grade -- and you'd be amazed at how many of them ask Santa for clothes. I'm talking basics: coats, shoes, boots. Nothing designer. The kids write these letters at school, so there's no parent sitting there putting them up to it. It's true teachers usually help the youngest children write their letters, but I've always been told they don't need a lot of prompting. Kids ask for what they want. Sure, most of them do ask for toys, and there's certainly nothing wrong with that either. For some of them, it might be the only toy they receive this holiday season. But for nearly every single one of them, it's one of the true highlights of their school year. As always, though, we need your help to pull this off. Nobody enjoys asking other people to dig into their pockets or to get out their checkbooks (well, nobody except maybe a couple of the candidates for mayor, no need to mention names), but this is one program for which I have no hesitation in making what professional fund-raisers call The Ask. If you can afford to help, please do. It's been another tough year for a lot of folks, I realize. They tell us the economy is rebounding, but not everybody sees the evidence yet from where they're sitting. Even if nobody in your own family is out of work, you're probably still trying to watch your spending more closely than you once did. My own experience, however, is that this is the best money I'll spend this holiday season, especially now that my kids are long past the stage of getting excited on Christmas morning. I mean, this is probably the only excuse I'll have this year to shop for toys, which I kind of miss. If you've never participated, the Sun-Times program is a little different than some in that we sort of play matchmaker: pairing the kids' letters with those of you willing to give Santa an assist. If you just want to donate money, we're more than eager to accept it. But if you're interested, what we really want at this stage is for people to request one -- or more -- of the kids' letters, purchase one of the requested gifts (they're instructed to ask for three items so you can choose), then wrap it and deliver it to school. It's definitely more labor intensive on your part than some programs, but results in a bigger payoff all the way around. I paid a visit Friday to one of our participating schools, Charles G. Hammond Elementary, 2819 W. 21st Pl., which straddles Pilsen and Little Village. Hammond is a neighborhood school of 448 students, about 98 percent of whom are at or below the poverty level. At Hammond, they treat Santa right, setting up a workshop for him in the school library on the last day before Christmas break. The kids come and sit on Santa's lap, and he gives them their gifts. Some teachers allow the kids to unwrap their gifts in class, and others require they take them home first, says counselor Carmen Martinez, and either way, there are lots of excited squeals and "ooohs" from ALWAYS grateful children, she reports. Some children insist on taking their gifts home to be opened at Christmas, Martinez told me. They are usually the ones who aren't expecting anything else, she says. All the kids I met were smiling, especially when I mentioned Santa. "It's a big thing here," Martinez said. "It just brings that little extra joy at a time when I think the kids deserve it . . . I'm overwhelmed sometimes by how generous people can be." The accompanying box givesdetails on how to participate. You might get a letter like this one from Hammond School third grader Isabel: "Please Santa may I get a shoes size 6W or pants size small or sweter size midium and I would like the clothes the color black for Christmas." We can do that. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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