Toddler
If you're doing laundry once a week (and not every other day, which is its own kind of full time job) most toddlers go through 2 outfit changes daily. Spills, falls, mud, hands wiped on whatever's closest. Some days it's three. That's around 20 outfits a week, which is 40 pieces once you count tops and bottoms separately, and closer to 50 once you add pajamas.
That's probably the biggest clothing rotation your child will ever need. And the best part is, once you get it all together, they outgrow all of it and you have to start again.
Here's the part that caught me up at first. 24 months and 2T are not the same size, and they're not sequential either. They're two different sizing systems.
24 months is meant for a kid wearing a diaper, so it's cut rounder, with more room in the crotch, and usually has snaps. 2T is longer, slimmer, and meant for a kid walking around without a diaper.
Once potty training finishes, everything cut for a diaper is done. Not outgrown, just wrong for him all of a sudden.
That's why it feels like the whole wardrobe goes at once. Some of it does. And brands don't agree with each other either, one store's 24m can be baggier than another's 2T. What gives?
Knees and elbows, seams and cuffs, the inside of the neckline, the seat of every pair of pants. Snaps and zips that still work. Prints that haven't cracked. Elastic that still holds.
Nothing with a set stain, nothing with a hole, nothing pilled or stretched out. If it wouldn't pass in our own house, it doesn't go in the closet.
Some things survive this age almost untouched. Outer layers, dresses, anything worn over something else, and anything bought for one occasion and outgrown before the next one. Those come back in near perfect condition and they're the backbone of what's here.
The everyday stuff is harder to find in good shape, which is why it gets looked at hardest.
Most of what leaves a toddler's closet is still in good shape. It's only leaving because of a size change, and it just doesn't feel right saying goodbye to it yet. Those are the clothes we love to find, and the ones worth swapping.
That's what KidSwaps is. You fill a prepaid swap bag with what they've outgrown, send it back, and every item we accept earns you a credit. Credits are what you shop with here, on 2T, 3T and 4, from brands you already know. The closet runs 6M to 7, so it keeps up with them. There's only one of everything, so the closet keeps rotating.
You're not buying a wardrobe from us. You're replacing the part that stops fitting, which at this age is most of it, without paying full price for clothes your kid will wear for four months.
Round trip shipping is covered, and you don't pay anything until your first credit lands in your credit bank.
At this size the wear shows in specific places, so that's where we look: knees, seat, cuffs, elbows, the inside of the neck. No stains, no holes, no pilling, no stretched necklines, snaps and zips that still work
Some things we don't take at all. Socks and underwear, anything with a stain that's set, anything where the elastic has gone.
Clothes are the easy end of secondhand. The real hazards are mechanical and visible: buttons and appliques that have worked loose, snaps and zips that no longer close, and drawstrings at the neck or hood. We check all three on every item.
What doesn't belong in a swap at all is gear that ages out of safety: car seats, cribs, crib mattresses. Those get recalled and they degrade, and there's no way to know a car seat's history. Clothes aren't like that.
Toddler runs 2T, 3T and 4. Either side of that we go down to 6 months and up to size 7, so you're not starting over every year.
We do take shoes, but don't suggest it unless they're close to new, super clean, and the style is currently in fashion. You can get more specifics on The Closet Standard page, and if you're not sure, they probably won't get you a credit.
If they meet the same standard we hold everything else to, send them. Fill the bag, use the label that's already on it, and what's accepted becomes credits you can spend.
What we can't take is donated rather than returned, so send what you'd be glad to see go. We always tell you which items didn't make it and why.
There are four plans depending on whether you want clothes, toys, or both, and round trip shipping is included in all of them.
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