Auntie Kate The Resale Expert

If you’re just starting your consignment shop, or if you’ve moved your thrift (finally!) to a spacious new space, or if it’s just low-season in your resale shop, you may be feeling that there’s just not enough stuff to tempt shoppers.

You may be right.

Or you may be ready to use some of these fun ideas to make the most of the elbow room you currently have. These tricks will make your shop seem like an overflowing Ali Baba cave of sumptuous delights, even with low stock:

More space than you need, at least for now? Fill the center area with a table (tables!) and display some terrific pieces of merchandise on them:

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Another similar idea: At some point, this shop will probably replace those table displays with fixtures that can hold more merchandise. But notice how wisely they chose the tables: modular, so they can be used for window displays!

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More walls than racks? No problem. Just angle your individual clothing racks slightly rather than line them up flat against the walls. More interest, less bargain-basement look!

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Stretches of empty wall, which will some day be filled with racks and display armoires, can be inexpensively fitted out for accessories, the way this shop did:

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Or perhaps this version suits your style better:

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Need to leave the entire back wall of your shop blank? Try a simple Contac paper collage that looks like a shop window… even the awning can be mocked up like that!

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Fill an empty corner not just with a shopping-companion chair, but a wall decal and a side table with a talk-provoking artifact or two.

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More empty walls to fill? A garland of cafe lights… with some sparkly earrings clothes-pinned on… will be the talk of the town until you need to add racks back there for incoming merchandise!

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Have you noticed a bit of a theme running through this blog post? It’s trees… growing, like your business will with Too Good to be Threw’s Products for the Professional Resaler!