Cool! My first blog on the official p.l.s blog site. How exciting! Well, just wanted to introduce myself to our avid readers, I'm sure there are tons of you following our every move... jk... lol... I'm Elle Beyer, Meg's partner in crime and we are super excited about the growth and progress of p.l.s. I wanted to tell everyone how I got involved with p.l.s and why. Well, one day I was posting my kids clothes on craigslist. I had a couple bags of nice clothes my boys had grown out of, as well as practically brand new shoes that had hardly been worn. I spent a good 30 minutes writing up an awesome post and pricing everything. At the end I thought to myself, "That was lame, I'm gonna get like $15 out of everything if I'm lucky. Then what the heck am I going to get for my 3 boys that will fit them for $15? I guess I could afford 3 t-shirts at Wal-mart or something."
Sure enough, I started getting emails from mom's who wanted to come look at the items. To my dismay I got about 5 emails that read, "I only want Baby Gap, what do you have that's Baby Gap?" Or... "Gymboree items sought. Only Gymboree." Or... "Would you take $5 for all of it?" I mean seriously??? This was turning out to be way too much trouble. I thought to myself, "Can't I just take my items somewhere, and exchange them for stuff that fits my kids?" Then... a light bulb went off in my head. I thought to myself, "Surely there is something like that out there." So I Google searched, and found Meg's operation. What a pleasant surprise! Not only was I thrilled someone started a swap, but it was right here, in my own community! Fantastic! It was fate, because it just so happened that the very first Rocklin p.l.s was scheduled 2 weeks away. I was stoked.
So I went to the Rocklin swap that was literally 10 min. away, and I had a blast. I got rid of my bags of clothes, that were originally going to be sold on craigslist, and I got back a bag of items I could use! Not only was I thrilled about the concept, but the organization of the swap was far more advanced than I thought it would be. Holy Cow, everything was on racks, hung, and sorted by size... etc... It was so much fun, brilliant, and so obviously needed.
After that, I pretty much stalked Meg, and expressed to her my extreme interest and enthusiasm for p.l.s . lol... Lucky for me, she took my enthusiasm seriously, and brought me on board as her partner. Yay! I'm a firm believer in this organization, the mission, and everything it stands for. I'm so excited to be a part of this, and I'm so excited to meet all the mom's that will be jumping on board as licensees, as well as our faithful swappers.
Happy Swapping! Elle
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