Today we are sharing our LOCAL LOVE for Lil Beanstalk and it’s Founder Lisa Shol!
“I hope to inspire others to think about their own carbon footprint and how they can participate in a more sustainable lifestyle. I’m by no means a sustainabilty expert, but found ways to create change within my own home, while continually learning.”
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Tell us all about Lil Beanstalk!
In 2019 my first child was born. Motherhood was amazing, but also overwhelming, and as a result I soon fell into the routine of buying everything new for my baby. While on-line shopping saved me time, I felt guilty about my new non-sustainable lifestyle.
Thankfully, I had a friend with a son a couple months older than mine who encouraged me to borrow her son’s clothing – it would save me time, money, and help her declutter. Every couple of months my friend would drop off clean, pre-loved clothing at my door and take back the clothes that my son no longer needed.
Unfortunately this opportunity of sharing came to an end once our son’s started wearing the same size clothing. And while I had come to appreciate the benefits of pre-loved clothing, I once again found myself defaulting to buying new while out running errands or shopping online. In an effort to get back to my sustainable ways, I started scouring online secondhand marketplaces and driving around town picking up clothing from strangers. However, it was always a gamble as to what clothes I was going to receive and in what condition, it was time consuming, and left me with the burden of finding a new home for my son’s outgrown clothing to complete the sustainability cycle. It was then that I realized that there needed to be a more convenient solution for busy families to take advantage of pre-loved baby clothing.
Lil Beanstalk was created to eliminate these challenges and enable families to take advantage of the convenient, cost effective, and sustainable benefits of borrowing pre-loved clothing.
Lil Beanstalk is an easy, stress-free, doorstep delivery subscription of gently worn baby clothes that saves you time, money and space – all while being as flexible as your baby needs.
