Free Baby Clothes For Low Income Families – Having a baby can put some financial strain on your family. People from low-income families often find it hard to fulfill all of the baby’s needs, including clothes, diapers, etc. This is especially true if the couple has an unplanned pregnancy. Low-income families often find it hard to even fulfill day-to-day expenses, let alone having a new child. However, it would be impossible to get rid of the child because it is simply inhumane. If you’re looking for free baby clothes for low-income families, you should keep on reading this post and we will tell you how you can get them.
Call 211
It’s a call line that offers help in various forms. You should contact them, explain your situation, and ask if they have any information about community services and programs that can help you with the current situation you have. This call line offers a wide array of networks, and they will help you find the closest program to your place so you don’t have to travel that far. The bottom line is, they may not be able to provide you with direct help (such as providing baby’s basic needs including clothes), but they are a great source of information and they can connect you with the right providers.
Carenet Santa Maria
Another source of infant clothing is the Carenet Santa Maria. This organization focuses in helping mothers to become a great parent by providing parenting classes. The infant clothing is one of their additional programs because they also provide maternity clothing. If you’re still in your pregnancy and can’t afford to buy maternity clothes, please contact them.
Craigslist
You may be surprised, but Craigslist can be one of the best sources for baby stuffs, including clothing. What’s great about this site is that you can search for the baby stuffs based on your city or state. To do so, first you click on the city, state or county closest to your living place. From here you can start looking for baby clothes using two methods.
First, you click on Free under the For Sale category. Type the “baby clothes” or “baby stuff” keyword (without quote) in the search box at the top of the page and press the search button. Now you will see some of the options offered.
Second, you can search for the same keyword but this time you should do it in the For Sale category. Now you should see a lot of results, and look for the ones that aren’t selling for a while. Contact the seller and explain your situation and ask if you can get it for free. People using craigslist because they want to get the stuff out of their home, so it is possible that they would give the baby stuff (cribs, clothes, etc) for free, especially for charity.
Local Community
Perhaps one of the best sources of free baby clothes is your local community. Contact your friends and neighbors to see if they can spare baby clothes and other baby’s basic needs. It is often that people with children store the baby clothes after they are not used anymore to anticipate for the next child, but they often gladly give it out for charity. You can also contact your local churches or other religion communities and see if they can help you find the free baby clothes for low income families.
References:
- Pregnancy & Resource Center of Santa Maria
- 2-1-1
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