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After all, some Auntie Kate messages are, ahem, Too Good to be Threw!

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Deja Vuesday

where you can visit a gently-used, recycled, and even restyled blog post in case you missed it the first time. It’s even better the second time around.

Take a quick visit to the past… the recent past… in your consignment, resale or thrift shop.

Did you sell a lot (more…)

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The absolute worst time of year to be a consignment or resale shopkeeper is the holiday season.

You’re not overwhelmed with shoppers, because you can’t convince the entire world to shop secondhand for Christmas. You’ve done your best, but there are still those folks who, although they happily shop with you all year, are afraid of what their sister-in-law might think if they gifted her with something wonderful from your shop. So your regulars are out shopping the malls.

Or maybe they’re just (more…)

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After all, some Auntie Kate messages are, ahem, Too Good to be Threw!

Click the image for more Deja Vuesday posts that are too good to be threw from TGtbT.com

Deja Vuesday

where you can visit a gently-used, recycled, and even restyled blog post in case you missed it the first time. It’s even better the second time around.

Well, soon it will be time to clear your consignment, resale, thrift decks of all-things-winter. I’m sure you have your seasonal clearance sale all planned out, but before (more…)

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What can a consignment, resale or thrift shopkeeper learn from a mega-corp like Pillsbury?Pillsbury crescent rolls: Original, Big & Flaky, Reduced Fat, Garlic Butter…. the mega-corp Pillsbury has built and built on their “original model” and now, they even have unperforated crescent rolls, for all those consumer-developed recipes that start with “Pinch the lines closed.”

They call this product “Recipe Creations.”

Besides a brilliant name, what does this (more…)

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Here’s a quick idea to show your business’s support of the various Shop Local * Small Business Saturday * Support Downtown  movements. You can actually

bring real-life (more…)

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