Great for our: environment, pockets, closets & community

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Central Coast’s most famous Clothing Swap

The Clothing Swap + Drive hosted by Asia Croson is a quarterly community event that allows us to gives the Central Coast the chance to update their closet & give back (all for free). It’s easy- you trade in you gently used items and can take home as many pieces as you’d like! You can wear them forever or just a few times, and even bring them back to future swaps!

We partner with local charities to provide gently used clothing items to women and children in need in our area. Our primary recipient is Lumina Alliance, SLO’s dedicated resource for those impacted by sexual and intimate partner violence.

How it works:

1. Clean out your closet for pieces you no longer want to keep (Please do not include any heavily used or torn pieces as well as loose garments such as old underwear or socks). 

2. Hang them up on hangers (some hangers provided at the swap!)

3. Bring all garments to the swap the day of & check in at our designated check in station

4. Our volunteers will collect & sort all your donations and you are free to shop around!

5. All remaining items at the end of the swap are donated to charities that need them the most

**Donations: All donations are required to be already on hangers (any kind is fine!) or nicely folded in a secure bag.

You can drop off at my office (1242 Monterey St, San Luis Obispo CA 93405) during business hours any day until Saturday! You can hang clothes on any kind of clothes hangers, and you can take hangers with you when you leave. (It will be difficult to keep track of whose is whose, so feel comfortable donating the hangers you provide!). You can tie a rubber band around the hanger necks if that makes it easier for you to transport! 

(If you don't have clothes to donate, you can Venmo $15 to @asiacroson and go shopping!)

**Try ons: There may be a small area to try clothes on, but no guarantees! Only take what you think will fit & you will love! Please feel free to return to the swap later in the day to drop off clothes that you decide not to keep.

As usual, all remaining items get donated to the Womens' Shelter in SLO (now known as Lumina Alliance), Cal Poly’s basic needs program, and several other local charities!

PLEASE DO NOT BRING: irreparably torn, damaged or stained clothing, or underwear. You will be asked to take these items home if they are within your donations. The amount of time it takes to sift through and throw away other people's underwear is time we would love to spend doing literally anything else. 

Don’t forget to bring your reusable bags! 

So before you guys go and spend a zillion dollars on summer clothes, let's find some at our good ol' fashioned Clothing Swap + Drive.

A great way to prune your closet, help local women + children in need, and spruce up your wardrobe. THIS IS A WIN WIN WIN.

Also like half my clothes come from clothing swaps.

Reuse and recycle, baby!!!