Good Causes for Your Prom Dresses – Helping Justify Buying your Dream Prom Dresses

What is it about giving that makes us all feel so good? Whether spending an afternoon with kids making crafts, reading to the elderly, or just baking goods for a bake sale. While your parents may be looking at the price tag of your dream prom dress shaking their heads - sway them with a charitable idea like one of these below.

Organize – or just participate in – a dress collection. Take all of your formal gowns from years past and donate them to charity or a school in need of dresses. There’s currently a drive running at the Livingston Public Library, in Livingston New Jersey if you’d like to send your old dresses there!

Sell your old dress to a consignment shop. Not only will you be getting a little extra to help pay for your new dress, but you’ll also be much closer to paying for your 2012 prom dress much easier.

Make it a group effort - take selling your dress a step further and have a spring fashion sale with your friends. Get all your old, but still cute clothes together to sell as a group. You can use the funds to either help pay for your dresses and a limo – or donate the money to a charity. Or sell them to each other- so you’ll all get a new wardrobe out of the deal.

Being fashionable also means acting charitably. Your favorite designs and dresses may be someone’s new dreams when you donate your dress!