Lead in children's shirts? Really?

One of the best ways to recycle, and one most of us have probably participated in, is to donate your old clothes to a re-sale shop and let someone else buy them at discount and enjoy them for a while. Especially kids’ clothes, since kids outgrow their duds faster than their parents can earn the money to buy them. The little hogs.

But thanks to a new federal law that's about to go into effect in less than a month, the children’s re-sale market is in jeopardy – which means our very wallets are in jeopardy.

» READ MORE: My column in today's Daily News

details why this is so and what you can do to help make sure we can still find cheap, used kids' clothes when we need 'em.