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Showing Mom and Dad just how much they can save.

Posted in Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , , on November 17, 2011|

KidBiz: It's Not Child's Play, a TGtbT Product for the Professional Resaler

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Do you sell kidstuff? Show parents how much they can get for half the price in your shop!

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Motivating donations… or incoming of any sort!

Posted in Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on November 15, 2011| 3 Comments »

Recently, “Our Thrift Store” (yes, they use the quotation marks) has had a

10 Days 10 Bags

Clean a room a day of clutter and donate it to a thrift storecampaign, to inspire the non-profit store’s fans and friends to go through their homes and bring in items they can resell.

To make the task more fun (and less overwhelming!), the store suggests going through a room a day with this checklist, found on their Facebook Events page.

Isn’t this something you could use as the backbone of a similar idea for your shop?

Imagine your blog. 10 days of entries, highlighting various areas of a home, with a checklist of what they can bring in. Make it “suggestive” rather than a dry recital of “knick-knacks, jewelry, shoes.”

For example,

Day 4, we’re tackling the Master Bedroom:

  • That scented candle that was a hostess gift that you’ve never taken out of the cellophane.
  • The necklace your husband insists looks like penny candy, and the baroque earrings that simply overwhelm your delicate features.
  • Bottom of the lingerie drawer: the bras you never had the nerve to cut the tags off of, yet alone wear. The fishnet tights still in their package from last Halloween.
  • Be honest. Just because you spent too much on those shoes you can’t walk in, is no reason to condemn them to a lifetime in the dark. Bring them in; we’ll find them other tootsies to sparkle on.

And because you, clever shopkeeper you, have connected your blog to your FB and Twitter accounts, every day for 10 days, you have a motivating social media message that could bring you wonders you (and your donors, consignors, sellers) never even thought about before!

Of course, you’ll turn your ten little suggestion lists into a bag-stuffer for continuing use or as part of your “how-to” handout.

Many thanks to our NFP peer! Visit “Our Thrift Store”.

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Dangerous Products: Spread the Word

Posted in Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged on November 2, 2011| 2 Comments »

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This is what your CPSC widget will look like.

If you have a web site or blog, there’s a simple way to add customer service (more…)

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Emergency costume: Thrift stores, right up your alley!

Posted in Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, Slices of (my) life, tagged , , on October 31, 2011|

This story of mine is a couple of years old, but still might work for you today!
 

In response to a desperate shopper at the thrift shop last week, we came up with this super-thrifty Halloween costume. Took him less than an hour to make this, and he promises to be the Belle of the Ball at the fancy society smash he’ll be attending.
Josh is going as “Table for One.”

He’ll take a circle of cardboard (cut out from an appliance carton courtesy of a local appliance dealer) with a hole cut out for his head so he can balance it on his shoulders. Then, he’ll cover it with a checkered tablecloth we found, allowing the edges to drape in a fetching sort of way.

On the tabletop, he’ll glue a wine glass, appetizer-size plate, napkin and silverware. The plate is filled with some plastic fruit and a “reserved” sign (donated by his favorite bistro) and the check (from an old-fashioned receipt book from same bistro.)

We found a headband to which Josh will hot-glue a bunch of flowers, so his head is the centerpiece. (I think that’s the part he likes best!)
How much it cost:

Tablecloth and napkin: $3.50.
Plate: $1
Plastic fruit: $2.50
Silverware: $2
Wine glass: $1
Headband, silk flowers: $4

Total? $14, and he still has most of the items to donate back to the thrift shop.

Note: Josh added wide elastic bands from the underside of his tabletop to swoop under his arms and back up. But he’s a dancin’ fool and wanted comPLETE stability.

The money Josh saved by not buying or renting a Halloween contest? He plans on donating it to Toys for Tots so that a child or two has a happier holiday. Pretty nifty guy, Josh.

–Kate Holmes, HowToConsign.com

P.S. Yes I know this is the 3rd Auntie Kate post today. Can you tell what my favorite holiday is? Besides 4th of July of course, and International Resale Day, which I was lucky enough to be born on. Oh and Christmas and Arbor Day and Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day.

Arbor Day?

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Deja Vuesday: A holiday promo you shouldn’t resist.

Posted in Deja Vuesday, Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, Used Stuff in the News, tagged , , on October 25, 2011|

After all, some Auntie Kate messages are, ahem, Too Good to be Threw!

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The holidays are all about giving, right?

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