As you are accepting items, don’t neglect the unusual. Everyone likes something different once in a while, and there is a whole group of consumers
who shop resale simply for that odd Mexican embroidered blouse,
funky home-made pottery, or Japanese kimono.
Besides, these items make a great conversation piece in the shop and wonderful newspaper copy for an article on your business!
Never pass up the opportunity to have something unusual in your shop. After all, if your customers wanted to look like everyone else, or have their home look like every other one…
Auntie Kate The Resale Expert 
Lol! Too funny 🙂 We have such a great time with unusual finds that I would never turn them down. My favorites are the ones that we can’t even figure out what they are ~ which doesn’t happen often, since one of us almost always knows or can google it in a minute. These items get tagged “what is it !?” gets left near the counter and our customers get a real kick out of imagining what something could have been used for – or even better – what it used to be and how it got into its current configuration. They almost always sell within a day.
Designers stop in to find the unusual shapes and colors too. Celebrate the unique! Your customers will love you for it.
Jenni, that’s PERFECT… make a conversation piece out of the whoozit! Someone posted a mystery item on FB a while back, and DARN it’s still bugging me…
Such a great idea for word of mouth!
So true, and it’s great to hear you ‘back me up’! We have a pair of green jeans and another pair of purple ones that may or may not ever sell, but anytime people shop the jeans they comment on them. Likewise a bathing suit that probably shows more than it hides in ways you’ve never imagined, and it is definitely a conversation piece.
I took a coat that looked like Mary Tyler Moore would’ve worn it in the 70’s and thought “I’m going to have this for awhile”-it sold in the 1st three hours.
We had a sure-fire way to sell weird stuff… all that had to happen is for one single staff member to say in a shocked tone of voice WHO TOOK THIS!? and sho’nuff, it would sell before 24 hours had passed!
Only problem is, the surprise/disbelief really had to be genuine! The gods of gawdawfull cannot be fooled!