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Is your resale shop the place to be?

November 27, 2007 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

I was reading Rick Segel (a man whose wisdom is so clearly expressed, I wish I could be him!) and here’s a part of what he had to say re Black Friday: (bolds are mine)

Along with the 4:00 AM openings… More and more stores were listing their “Door Buster” specials online… you could actually order the same items online. So why even bother going out shopping? BUT people did. WHY?

When answering that …we will be answering the…future of brick and mortar retailing. Black Friday became Continue Reading »

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It all started with a pair of gym socks.

November 24, 2007 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

I was shopping for something I really needed when I saw them.

Fresh clean white gym socks.

I have gym socks. Plenty of gym socks. Of course, they’re kinda old and snaggly and grey. And a couple pair have been mine since before I moved to this state. Ten years ago. But I don’t really need gym socks.

But then I thought: I’m worth it. So I bought those new gym socks. Cute little white ones with pink embroidery. Three pair.

Then the next day I bought

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Make your holiday windows a delight

November 22, 2007 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

Early 1900's Christmas windows.If you are still mulling over an easy but spectacular way to decorate your shop windows for the holidays, there are some inexpensive ideas in The Big Book of Window Displays Especially for Resale Shops

And, if you are out in those “new” stores this holiday season yourself, think of what is out there that can enhance your shop. Lotsa ideas on our Let’s Shop! Page.

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Helping teens find their personal style

November 20, 2007 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

An article FULL of good ideas to help you focus on teenShow a teen how to be her own unique selfs, if that’s a demographic you would like your shop to appeal to. I reproduce it here for fear the newspaper site will ax it soon as “stale news”, but to see the original, at least for a while, visit SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER.

I LOVE the idea of helping teens realize that by golly they DO have their own style, and showing them that’s it’s fun and creative to get their unique get-ups together, to NOT to be a slave to their peer group, “celebrities”, or even (gasp!) their parents!

Do you do this? Tell us how you show your teen clientele some chic and cheap ideas in your store!

Cheap chic: Thrift shopping lets teens find their personal style at bargain prices

By KRISTIN DIZON P-I REPORTER Last updated November 19, 2007 4:45 p.m. PT

“Go, Brittani, go!” Katherine Landerholm egged on her friend Brittani Potter as they hit the long rack of tank tops at Value Village on Crown Hill.

Potter, 16, has a weakness for Continue Reading »

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What I do when I am not hectoring, lecturing, and browbeating resalers

November 18, 2007 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

Lizzie Guptill portrayal Historic Spanish Point Heritage Holidays 2007I know that it is hard to believe that I do anything besides working on my two web sites, Too Good to be Threw and How to Consign.com but here’s actual proof that I do get away from the computer sometimes.

That’s me as Lizzie Webb Guptill on the porch of the 1901 Guptill House at Historic Spanish Point, a 30-acre museum on Little Sarasota Bay, in Osprey FL. Heritage Holidays showcases natural and historic holiday decor and living history portrayals and this year, I do a monologue as a harried housewife in 1907 who has Continue Reading »

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