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Got a Handy Santa?

December 4, 2008 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

If your Santa’s like mine, there’s nothing they dislike more than aimlessly wandering through stores trying to figure out what you might want for Christmas. It’s not that they don’t love you with all their hearts, but shoppers, they ain’t.

Now fiddlers in the home workshop…there’s a role for my Santa, and perhaps yours. When I saw these glowing LED-lit battery- operated display shelves I made a note of them, as a Favorite Thing for consignment and resale shopkeepers.

But at $40 each I hesitated to suggest them (after all, that’s 4/5ths of a Sponsorship at HowToConsign.com!)

Now my Handy Santa says they wouldn’t be hard to make… and I can “custom-order” the style of molding (I’d prefer plainer), the color (I’m thinking match the wall color so the merchandise seems to “float”) , and size. I can see these holding a few great pieces of glassware, or, in a fashion shop, a few pieces of jewelry draped on glassware!

Santa’s workshop’s gonna be busy…

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  1. on December 19, 2009 at 10:46 am Unknown's avatar Gift a consignment shopkeeper, a resale peer, a thrifty friend « Auntie Kate The Resale Expert

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  2. on December 5, 2008 at 9:33 am Unknown's avatar Santa not so Handy after all? « Auntie Kate The Resale Expert

    […] 5, 2008 by Auntie Kate He scoffed at your suggestion about the illuminated shelving? Send your un-handy Santa here to buy your consignment or resale […]



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