Business in Newnan “Grows Up,” Rebrands as Once Upon a Teenager
NEWNAN — After years of buying and selling gently used baby clothes and toys, the store formerly known as Once Upon a Child in Newnan has announced it is “finally growing up.”
The business has officially rebranded as Once Upon a Teenager, saying the company simply aged alongside the children who once shopped there.
“We looked around and realized all the kids we dressed in dinosaur pajamas in 2012 are now driving cars and rolling their eyes at their parents,” a store representative said. “It felt like the right time.”
With the change comes a new list of accepted resale items. The store says it will now only buy things teenagers actually use, though the guidelines are very specific.
Accepted items reportedly include:
• Hoodies worn exactly 400 times
• One single AirPod that was lost in a couch cushion sometime in 2023.
• Half-charged portable phone chargers with mysterious stickers on them.
• Backpacks containing three broken pencils, one math worksheet, and an empty Takis bag.
• LED light strips that worked for two weeks and are now tangled into a glowing knot.
• Plastic water bottles with plenty of water left in them.
• Skateboards
• Chad’s Letterman Jacket.
The store says it will no longer accept toddler toys, rattles, or anything described as “adorable.”
Instead, shoppers can expect racks of oversized black clothing, graphic tees referencing obscure internet jokes, and shelves of gently used gaming headsets that “definitely still work.”
Store owners say the transition is just part of life.
The store enjoyed a grand reopening next week, where the first 50 customers took a free slightly-cracked phone case and a coupon for 10% off any hoodie that says “a band name” their dads liked.
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