Events happening for National Clothing Swap Day

Reduce unnecessary waste this holiday season by attending a clothing swap.

December 2, 2025

Celeste Meiffren-Swango

State Director, Environment Oregon; Director, Beyond Plastics, Environment America

Janet Domenitz

Executive Director, MASSPIRG

Tis’ the season to be jolly, but too often, the pressure to buy and consume makes it much less so. Crowded stores, pressure on our pocketbooks, steep costs to the environment — it doesn’t have to be this way.

We’re organizing the first-ever National Clothing Swap Day on Saturday, December 6th, which is a coordinated day of action where people across the country will be organizing clothing swaps to opt out of the idea that we always need to be buying more and more new stuff, especially around the holidays.

The idea is simple: People give clothes they don’t wear anymore a second life by swapping them with family, friends and others in their community. Instead of trashing the clothes we no longer wear and buying more new clothes, we can share what we have with other people in our community. Most of us have more than we need.

So, find an event near you, gather some of your gently used treasures and swap ’till you drop. Here’s a list of some of the clothing swaps that are happening for National Clothing Swap Day that are open to the public (we will be adding to this list as events get finalized):

California

Winter Clothing Swap at Main Branch of the Oakland Public Library, Bradley C. Walters Community Room (125 14th St, Oakland, CA 94612) from 1pm-4pm. RSVP link.

Illinois

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Swap & Mend at Books4Cause (2931 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60618) from 12pm-4pm. RSVP link.

Photo by Samuel Klein | TPIN

Get Fitted for the Holidays (reSOURCE Thrift Store in Stuart Hall at the University of Chicago) from 12-4pm. RSVP link.

Get Fitted for the Holidays at Dollop! (814 N Wells St., Chicago, IL 60610) from 12-4pm. RSVP link.

Massachusetts

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Winter Clothing Swap at La Saison Bakery (221 Main St, Charlestown, MA 02129) from 11am-1pm. First 15 people get a free cookie!

Minnesota

National Clothing Swap Day: Minneapolis at Wildflyer Coffee (3262 Minnehaha Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55406) from 1-3pm. RSVP link.

Missouri

Clothing Swap at 206 Main St, Saint Peters, MO at 10am

New York

Clothing Swap at New York Distilling Company (573 Johnson ave Brooklyn, NY 11237) from 11am-3pm.

Clothing Swap at Cantines Island CoHousing Common House in Saugerties, NY from 2pm-6pm.

Oregon

Photo by Mike Bennett | Used by permission

Winter Clothing Swap at Wonderwood Springs (8811 N Lombard Ave, Portland, OR 97203) from 12-1:30pm. RSVP link.

OSPIRG Sip and Swap at Steeplejack Brewing – Union on Hawthorne (3757 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR 97214) from 3-5pm

Pennsylvania

Swap Scranton’s clothing swap at Snow Much Fun Free Community Day (Everhart Museum 1901 Mulberry Street, Scranton PA 18510) from 12-4pm.

Washington

Clothing Swap at University of Washington (The Quad) from 10am-12pm.

Want to host your own? It’s not too late! See our guide for hosting a clothing swap with more information.

How to host a clothing swap

Beyond plastic

How to host a clothing swap

March 17, 2025

Hope to see you there!

Authors

Celeste Meiffren-Swango

State Director, Environment Oregon; Director, Beyond Plastics, Environment America

As director of Environment Oregon, Celeste develops and runs campaigns to win real results for Oregon's environment. She has worked on issues ranging from preventing plastic pollution, stopping global warming, defending clean water, and protecting our beautiful places. Celeste's organizing has helped to reduce kids' exposure to lead in drinking water at childcare facilities in Oregon, encourage transportation electrification, ban single-use plastic grocery bags, defend our bedrock environmental laws and more. She is also the author of the children's book, Myrtle the Turtle, empowering kids to prevent plastic pollution. Celeste lives in Portland, Ore., with her husband and two daughters, where they frequently enjoy the bounty of Oregon's natural beauty.

Janet Domenitz

Executive Director, MASSPIRG

Janet has been the executive director of MASSPIRG since 1990 and directs programs on consumer protection, zero waste, health and safety, public transportation, and voter participation. Janet has co-founded or led coalitions, including Earth Day Greater Boston, Campaign to Update the Bottle Bill and the Election Modernization Coalition. On behalf of MASSPIRG, Janet was one of the founding members of Transportation for Massachusetts (T4MA), a statewide coalition of organizations advocating investment in mass transit to curb climate change, improve public health and address equity. Janet serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Consumer Federation of America, the Common Cause Massachusetts executive committee, Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow board of directors, and Department of Environmental Protection Solid Waste Advisory Committee. For her work, Janet has received Common Cause’s John Gardner Award and Salem State University’s Friend of the Earth Award. Janet lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two sons, and every Wednesday morning she slow-runs the steps at Harvard Stadium with the November Project.