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Holidays: Make them special for your relatives

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on November 25, 2008| 1 Comment »

santabuckA continuation of our series on how the upcoming holidays can be special without slaying your family’s budget. While not all the ideas below are (more…)

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Holidays: Make them special for kids

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on November 24, 2008| 1 Comment »

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This week, we consignment, resale, and thrift shopkeepers examine how the upcoming holidays can be special without doing harm to any family’s budget. Each day, we’ll look at how a not-extravagant celebration is not only POSSIBLE but PREFERABLE to those debt-ridden holidays of yore.

And our first installment, of course, concerns children. So many families feel they must (more…)

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So many Christmas marketing ideas, so little time…

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on November 22, 2008| 2 Comments »

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If you haven’t written your holiday marketing in stone, or if you haven’t even thought about it, or if you are going to roll over and play dead in your consignment, resale, or thrift shop this year….

or if you for some reason have misplaced your Holidays in Resale, a Product for the Professional Resaler which you can get Pretty Darn Quick here

a list of some past ideas from here on Auntie Kate The Blog that might, just might, draw in all those folks who are now open to shopping secondhand, even for Christmas etc. gifts.

Also, be sure to (more…)

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Taking a Second Look

Posted in Shopkeeping talk on November 20, 2008| 2 Comments »

Note to consignment and resale shops of the home decor persuasion: Yuppie Decor will have you looking at some of your incoming a bit more positively. Look here for the fresh new face of previously-sat furniture. Maybe even a little inspiration to redo…

Amazing what some paint and fabric and a staple gun can do. Now, if only I’d redo the 1950’s “Florida room” chairs I bought at a yard sale for $2 apiece…two years ago!

(And doncha LOVE that what we called ‘ugly ’50’s decor’ just a few years ago is now called Mid-Century?)

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Did you get this email from eBay?

Posted in Shopkeeping talk on November 18, 2008| 2 Comments »

computertoesThe subject line was

Your ebay name here, whoa, zero bids!

and the email was a sampling of items on eBay which had not received any bids and were close to their closing time.

I find this FASCINATING. Haven’t you, as a consignment and resale shopkeeper, often thought

Why didn’t anyone BUY this?

It’s cute, it’s stylish, and whoa, at final markdown, it’s a STEAL.

Wouldn’t it be great to (more…)

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