If your market area includes kids who live in dorms, student housing, or rentals, and if they’re leaving town, how can you consign or buy outright or receive as donations the stuff they don’t consider worth moving or storing?
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Whether it is called Chuck it for Charity (works whether your shop is an NFP thrift or if your consignment shop maintains charity accounts) or Move-out Recycling or Make a Clean Green Break, it’s a great way to
- get merchandise (you’d be amazed at what college kids don’t want),
- help the school itself (you can set up a charity account for whatever cause the school has going),
- teach that generation the values of recycling,
- introduce them to your shop,
- save the college Dumpster costs,
- and avoid filling up the landfill.
What could be more WIN-WIN?
Photo courtesy of Drew Saunders on Flickr
Auntie Kate The Resale Expert 
Interesting, Michelle…looks like they have a long way to go, though, huh? A rather narrow focus, but sometimes that works, right?
Hi Kate…have you heard of Dorm Styled? http://dormstyled.com/ It’s a new consignment event just for higher education!
Way to go Kate!
With college graduations underway and subsequent move outs, your article is very timely. The benefits of participating are huge for all parties!
Linda