Attention Internet Ethicists

January 19, 2008

Our house is the last stop for a truckload of baby clothes.  In addition to all the things Orange inherited from Raisin and then outgrew, a friend of mine has a son who’s several months older than Apple.  She sent us all her hand-me-downs, with instructions to pass them on when we were done, because she’d gotten most of them that way in the first place.

But I don’t have anyone to give them to — nobody in my immediate circle is expecting a baby, and my basement is starting to disappear in a maze of boxes.

Here’s the question: would it be wrong to sell what I can at a Mothers of Multiples sale?  I’ll send my friend a portion of whatever I make, and then I’ll donate whatever doesn’t sell.  But I don’t know anymore what was hers, and it seems silly not to take advantage of the opportunity.  Right?