Swap Parties are the BEST!

Swap Parties are just awesome. 

You gather up your best (and most stylish) friends, have some yummy food, talk about life...

Oh and clear our your closet of all your lightly used stuff while getting free gently used (or sometimes new) stuff in return.

Awesome right?

Recently, me and mis amigas had one. We wanted it to be early enough in the spring before we all went on our bi annual shopping binges to find new things for the season change, hopefully reducing (or eliminating altogether) the things we wanted. 

First we sorted all of the items by size and type. For example jeans all went together, but were divided into sizes. Same with the other items.

We placed the higher priority items (also known as the bags!) in the center. I've seen swap parties done in several different ways but what we decided was to allow for casual browsing and selection of the clothes, but took turns picking out bags (since they were the hot ticket items)

And you can see why. There were some awesome selections here.

And the swapping began! 

Best of all, whatever was not swapped was collected for a donation for our church's Ressurection Banquet for our friends in need. 

The event was super fun, although I'll admit that while I did bring several totes full of things to swap, I hadn't planned on coming home with anything.

But surprisingly, I did find some really nice things.

Including a nice light striped knit shirt, a cool high low blouse, one large Coach tote and a smaller Coach signature purse/wristlet set. 

See why I said swap parties are the best. Cannot wait until our next one!