Posted in Slices of (my) life on June 23, 2008| 4 Comments »
Do you know your neighbors? I don’t.
Oh, I do know the lady to the south, and like her. To the north? An extended family lives there… several generations, whose language I cannot identify, yet alone understand. They have a nice dog, though. Across the street? One of a half-dozen folks I know.
A woman around the corner (more…)
Posted in Slices of (my) life on May 5, 2008| 1 Comment »
Okay, so I was wrong. ONE restaurant that I go to DOES have an email list that they use. Usually, they’re nice
little email missives, but nothing special (except of course that there are so few restaurants who USE email….). This issue, though, had me smiling, and I bet that whenever I realize it’s Tuesday again, I’ll associate Tuesday with Sangria Tapas… pretty clever of them, no?
The email I received is below. You might want to (more…)
Posted in economics of resale, Slices of (my) life on March 20, 2008| 1 Comment »
Sunday evening I was waylaid by an earnest young female in a vest covered in patches showing her achievements. I mean, wasn’t it my patriotic or gender-duty to buy some Girl Scout cookies? Of course it was.
When I got home (yes, I did wait until I was safely off the road before ripping into that box of Thin Mints) I noticed something very interesting. Or maybe it was interesting only to my chocolate-befuddled brain.
The same traits that make a good Girl Scout (or at least, that make good GS cookie package copy) make (more…)
Posted in Slices of (my) life on March 15, 2008| 1 Comment »
You know how mild-mannered Clark Kent, unassuming reporter, steps into the phone booth and comes out Superman? Well, this is Katydid, Florida Storyteller, before the transformation into Auntie Kate The Resale Guru.
Okay, just ONE little business tip. If you truly use all the Too Good to be Threw Products for the Professional Resaler information in your consignment, resale, or thrift shop, you TOO can spend your March Saturdays wandering through a live oak-canopied park, telling silly stories. Or whatever you truly long to do 😉
More of Kate’s retail and resale wisdom at Too Good to be Threw, home of The Complete Operations Manual for Resale & Consignment Shops, as well as consumer-focused thoughts at HowToConsign.com where you can find a professional resale shop
Posted in Slices of (my) life, tagged Products for the Professional Resaler on March 9, 2008| 5 Comments »
Just the other day, took my polka-dot PT to the printers and brought home the 20th Anniversary edition of Too Good to be Threw, The Complete Operations Manual for Resale & Consignment Shops.
Hard to believe that it’s been 20 years since I crawled on my hands and knees across my living-room floor for months, organizing colored index cards into the first edition of my Manual. Never before had there been such a book. How to organize all that information? How to present it in a way that maybe, some folks might find helpful?
I had written (more…)
Too Good to be Threw is the flagship site of the TGtbT Family of Sites for the Professional Resalers
Auntie Kate The Resale Expert 