IT’S an enduring problem for parents throughout the period their children are growing up.
Do you spend your hard-earned cash on expensive clothes, only to see your beloved offspring outgrow them within a few months?
Or dress them in jaded and ill-fitting hand-me-downs in a vain attempt to save a few pennies?
But a new scheme for those facing exactly that dilemma has earned praise from both parents and environmentalists.
A new shop, called Little Green Monkeys, aims to appeal to parents fed-up at wasting thousands of pounds on little-used toys and clothes.
Tucked away in a Cardiff suburb, it is thought to be one of the first UK ventures of its kind, acting as a “green go-between” service to promote the virtues of recycling.
Run by Lorraine Middleton and her daughter Ashley Beard, from Cardiff, it sells nearly new merchandise on customers’ behalf, with the selling price being split between the shop and the seller.
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