eric rochow

My friend Mabel, who is one of the smartest people I know, has launched Tot Swap Shop, a website for people with children who want to give items they no longer need to people who do need them and vice versa.

Mabel bought me lunch several times while developing Tot Swap Shop to get my input on the social networking world, and I’m really impressed by what she has put together here.

What rings true here is that Mabel, being a mom, saw a need and built a solution, and its a really simple and elegant solution, which is what works best on the net.

Tots Swap Shop only wants to do one thing. We want to offer a community to exchange second-hand children’s products and advice relating to these products.

Parents everywhere, especially those with limited storage space in their homes or apartments, are looking to rid their growing children’s toys, books, clothes, etc. all the time. Whether they advertise in a newspaper or at their local grocery store, or setting up a garage sale, everyone would prefer that these items go to a happy new home rather than to our ever-growing environmental problem.

The idea to provide an online environment for swapping children’s items came naturally to the founder because of her decade-long experience as a web developer and as a mom. The Internet is the ideal platform for such transactions because of its universal reach and its ability to build communities of like-minded individuals.