Exceedingly Handy and Profit-Building Favorite Thing

I ran across these TakeOne Business Card Holders at Paperdirect.com and figured they were neat, attractive, inexpensive (about $1 apiece with shipping)…and could lead to all sorts of imaginative uses.
Use these in every dressing room, on the local grocery’s bulletin board (with personal

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Santa not so Handy after all?

He scoffed at your suggestion about the illuminated shelving? Send your un-handy Santa here to buy your consignment or resale shop a sure crowd-pleaser: life-size cutouts to attract attention to your window displays or to create a photo op for your secondhand shoppers.
What young lady wouldn’t want

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Got a Handy Santa?

If your Santa’s like mine, there’s nothing they dislike more than aimlessly wandering through stores trying to figure out what you might want for Christmas. It’s not that they don’t love you with all their hearts, but shoppers, they ain’t.
Now fiddlers in the home workshop…there’s a role for my Santa, and perhaps yours. When I [...]

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A picture’s worth a thousand words…or $39.99, whichever’s cheaper

Another one of my Favorite Things:
If you want your merchandise photos to “speak for themselves” on your web site and blog, they need to be good photos. This type of “portable photo studio” set up helps get a good, and quick, shot. I can’t imagine not having one, if you want your goods to be [...]

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Another of Auntie Kate’s Favorite Things

And it’s on sale, too. This 5-tier buffet stand looks to be useful… imagine it with 5 different clear glass plates, piled high with hairbows, bangles, beads… in your showcase or on your center table in your swing shop.
Or offering your

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Favorite Thing: Make your Countertop a Seasonal Display!

If it’s one thing consignment and resale shops have plenty of, it’s clients standing at your sales or intake counter. Take advantage of that with seasonal displays “under glass”…err, under plastic…
With a clear desk protector, you can change your sales counter top to reflect the seasons, highlight an upcoming event in your store, showcase a [...]

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Clicks to amuse & enlighten you this weekend

It’s the weekend. Kick back, relax, and visit some web sites I think you’ll enjoy as a resale or consignment shopkeeper. Nothing too heavy; after all, you’ve worked hard all week.
First up, The French Toast Girl. You’ve played with her “paper dolls” on the link at “Rainy Day Fun” on my Link Page, now explore [...]

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See-through lighting: Definitely a Favorite Thing

If your shop, like many consignment and resale shops, has showcases without interior lighting, your merchandise doesn’t pop out at browsers, does it? Shed some light on the subject but don’t clutter up their view with a clear glass lamp. These come in a variety of styles and price points, but for under $30-$40, you [...]

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Favorite Thing: New Dressing Room Curtains!

I’m a great fan of changing one’s consignment shop around quickly and inexpensively. I am also GA-GA on word of mouth. So I suggest that every shop with dressing rooms that have curtains, have a wardrobe of seasonal changes.
I’m not sure what “season” this wonderful tattoo fabric covers, but I think it would be terrific [...]

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Cool decor that will MORE than pay for itself: A Favorite Thing Indeed!

I just know I’ve mentioned these to my consignment and resale shopkeepers at Sharing some time… but they are so worth mentioning again.
These star lanterns are SO cool, and SO inexpensive, and SO easy to resell, that you can have fab decor and a new profit center all in one.
My favorite theme for anniversary celebrations [...]

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Adaptive reuse Favorite Thing

This is, according to the folks selling it, a tulle stand. Not that I knew tulle needed a stand, but what do I know?
All I know is that this would make a great display piece for a garment on a hanger, in a shop that’s shabby-chic-ish. And at less than $40 for half a dozen, [...]

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Manikins…umm, ladykins… another favorite thing!

These manikins, or artist’s models, make terrific props in a jewelry showcase. Artsupply.com seems to have the most reasonable prices, but check locally to avoid shipping (both the monetary and the ecological costs!) and to support your local merchants, of course. (As my mother said, Pretty is as pretty does: If you want support from [...]

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Another Favorite Thing at my absolute complete perfect favorite price

As you all know, my favorite price is free. And my favorite activity is planning consignment, resale, and thrift stores.
And my LEAST-FAVORITE thing is yanking and tugging clothing racks, especially full clothing racks, around a store.
You probably agree. In fact, you’d probably rearrange your shop, if it weren’t such a pain to do [...]

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Favorite thing, at a favorite price: one nickel

Here’s a favorite thing that will guide your browsing customers AND save you hours of straightening time. Color-coded mini-markers that slip on the neck of a hanger. Think how YOU could use them:
* To indicate Petites or Talls while keeping clothing in the right size range.
* To denote

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Favorite and Fabulous!

Here’s a fun addition to your dressing rooms. The photo’s lousy, it’s the fault of the catalog’s web site. But a great idea to inject a little humor into what COULD be a grim interval in the dressing room: a mirror which declares You Look Fabulous!
I originally saw this in the Signals catalog where it’s [...]

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