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Out & About Shopping Consignment

Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Shopkeeping talk, Slices of (my) life, tagged , , on May 31, 2013| 4 Comments »

Love how this shop in Bradenton FL solved an annoyance. This wooden pedestal (more…)

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Mothers and consignment shops and thrift stores.

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, Slices of (my) life on May 12, 2013|

The style in fashion when my mither opened her consignment shop

I swear I gave this card to my mother on Mother’s Day! I KNOW she had hats like this in her consignment shop, ’cause I tagged them…

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there, and thanks to those wise enough to show their offspring the value (financially, morally, ethically) of shopping secondhand.

And the value (more…)

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I missed my own anniversary.

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, Slices of (my) life on May 7, 2013|

Kate Holmes, Resale Guru and Shopper Extraordinaire!Oh, my, it’s been a few days past

6 years since I started

this blog as a supplement to my web site, Too Good to be Threw. About 1500 posts later I still have stuff to say. See what I said on Day One, about the jacket I left behind. Believe it or not, there are still stores forcing their shoppers into the same profit-gutting situation today.

My work is never done. Fortunately, my secondhand shopping isn’t, either.

Look, is that me behind your rack there?

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Out & about in Sarasota

Posted in economics of resale, Kudos: Ideas to inspire!, Shopkeeping talk, Slices of (my) life, tagged , , , on April 25, 2013| 2 Comments »

Two different store fronts had me reaching for my camera this week:

Cute shop brochure holder, about 40 inches tall, outside a dress shop, Daisy Cotton. Did you notice her arms are crescent moons?

Daisy Cotton's cute card holder

And this one. Kudos for HAVING a “coming soon” sign, un-kudos for not telling us what to watch for, for the messy paper and amateur lettering. Plus, there’s a kids’ shop next door that they had not yet introduced themselves to. Wouldn’t this be an obvious thing  any entrepreneur would do?

coming soon

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Don’t read today’s post if you love designer bags.

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, Slices of (my) life, tagged on February 25, 2013| 7 Comments »

I am 100% serious. If your idea of the Ultimate Accessory for your wardrobe is a bag everyone will coo over because it’s “designer”, skip today’s blog post.

Because I have collected up some photos of what I, just my opinion, I, consider the

Ugliest Bags in the Universe. (more…)

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