-Setting the standard for Gmachim in Town, now in our 7th Year!-

Our mission: Providing excellent condition, current styles of used (or new) kids clothing for struggling Lakewood families by collecting your high-end children’s clothing in a smooth fashion, handling it with care and passing it along the way you’d like it to be… straight into the hands of someone who will appreciate it and wear it well. We take care that it gets processed within a day or so to go straight into closets and be worn with pride and enjoyed within the same week it was given. We work by private appointment only and do not charge since all work is done by volunteer.

We bring dignity back to the word ‘clothing gmach’ since only clothing suitable to be worn again hang here. Your donated children’s outfits from last year are easily visible amongst other current style clothing so families don’t have to search for the few “nice things” interspersed with styles from years back. We hang with care; attaching pajama and clothing sets together top with bottom, and passing on matching sets in the various sizes together so others with those sizes can enjoy. Keep in mind though that a gmach is only as good as the clothing it gets!

Families greatly appreciate the beautiful clothing you give, and you give it with the knowledge it’s going to real people, all within your community, who are excited about it and will wear it right.

Unfortunately, the reality is that the standards are higher than what they used to be, and mothers who have tight budgets can meet stiff resistance when they come home with second-hand stuff. The pickup gmach meets this need.

We take boys’ clothing sizes 0-14, and girls’ clothing through teen sizes.

If this operation speaks to you, please contact us for a quick and free pickup. Donate in 2 easy steps—see below.

(As we pass on to standard Lakewood families, please try to avoid giving any stained, pilled, torn, ripped or even stored stuff…it will not look acceptable for another use. We are not a ‘bin’ operation.)

Weekly Pickup schedule: Motzei Shabbos-up until Thursday night.

1) Put items in a bag, seal with a strip of tape in case of rain. (optional: label bags gmach so they don’t get mistaken as garbage, and set out)

2) Once out, text your address to 848 525 6961 ‬(PICKUP only text line) and you will get a confirmation text.

Bags will be picked up within 24 hours.

Please leave bags out until picked up!

Any questions, comments or concerns can be directed to pickupgmach@gmail.com. Any excess items are donated to other local gmachim so others can benefit since due to lack of space, regretfully we cannot service the entire Lakewood at this time.

The Pickup gmach is under the auspices of R’ Forscheimer Shlita.

[Press Release]