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RE-inventing jewelry in your thrift, resale, consignment shop.

Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on May 10, 2012| 5 Comments »

Click for the mini-tutorial.

If you buy gently-used costume jewelry outright from your suppliers, include in the batch offer, and also save, ALL bits and pieces.

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A little PINspiration for consignment, resale, and thrift shopkeepers… and a gateway to many more

Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Really good ideas, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , on May 4, 2012| 1 Comment »

An inspiring photo for your shop. (more…)

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Just thought I’d share….

Posted in 5- Minute Fixes, Kudos: Ideas to inspire!, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , , on April 7, 2012| 2 Comments »

Cute idea I saw yesterday in a consignment shop.

They'd used pastel playing cards as earring cards!

They’d used pastel playing cards as earring cards!

They’d used pastel playing cards as earring cards.

They were simply in a rectangular box, but imagine how cute the idea would be clipped on a clothesline:

Pastel clothespins to display the carded earrings!

Pastel clothespins to display the carded earrings

I suspect the playing cards I saw were found at a dollar store, so keep an eye out. Imagine, that would be less than 2 cents per “earring” card!

Card photo from kardwell.com; clothespins available at Oriental Trading.

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Teeny Tip: Cheapest Tricks & Best Buys for Resale Shops

Posted in Shopkeeping talk, Teeny Tips, tagged , on April 1, 2011| 2 Comments »

A Too Good to be Threw Teeny Tip for Consignment, Thrift & Resale StoresA TGtbT.com Teeny Tip:

An excerpt from Resale’s Cheapest Tricks & Best Buys, one of the mini-Products for the Professional Resaler at Too Good to be Threw. See all the “Lunch with Kate” Products.

Here’s a $10-and-under spiff up for your shop. What better time than spring to make a few “Cheapest Tricks & Best Buys” changes?

Get interesting tiles: Ceramic tiles, priced from 50¢ to a dollar or two, come in all sorts of textures, from slate to shiny metallic glazes. Lay them loose in a showcase (try terra cotta under brass merchandise), as a temporary floor in your show window, as a table top.

Mirror tiles, too, add sparkle and light to just about any merchandise. If you sell furniture, put felt pads on the underside of mirror tiles and use to protect table tops from for-sale lamps and knick-knacks placed thereon.

Stick-on cork tiles make a terrific floor in your display window (you can pin hems!) or over wall-hung racks for light-weight wall displays.

Resale’s Cheapest Tricks & Best Buys is just one of the mini-Products for the Professional Resaler available on the Too Good to be Threw “Lunch with Kate” page. Keep a full selection on hand for inspiration in your consignment shop, for staff reading in your resale shop, and even as a supplement to your volunteer manual and training in your NFP thrift store. See which ones you need!

See more Teeny Tips for Consignment, Resale, and Thrift Shops from Auntie Kate.

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Before and After: Stuff on Furniture

Posted in Not-for-Profit Resale, Shopkeeping talk, tagged , , on November 11, 2010| 2 Comments »

It’s all too tempting, when a consignment, resale, thrift shop deals in home goods, to use the for-sale furniture as a handy surface

on which to plop things. And thus do no favors to (more…)

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