One week til Christmas!

A little pre-holiday gift for consignment and resale shopkeepers to keep things in perspective, business-wise or family-wise!
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when

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Quote for the Day

“About all you can do in life
is be who you are.
Some people will love you for you.
Most will love you for what you can do for them,
and some won’t like you at all.”
– Rita Mae Brown
I DO wish I could remember this, myself.

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Look at it this way.

Life isn’t about waiting for the storms to pass.
It’s about learning to dance in the rain.

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Today’s thought

The essence of life is to care.
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The secret of life is to dare.

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Get crackin’, as my Granpappy used to say!

Today’s inspirational quote is designed to get you started on all those little chores you’ve been meaning to do in your consignment or resale shop. (I mean, it’s Monday and all.) Maybe it’s taking

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Save your Sanity: Today’s Quotation of Use

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard
I’ve tried to find out who Southard was but can’t, and apparently this is the only thing he said worth gathering into a quotation collection. But isn’t it a doozy?
Imagine all the fussing and fuming, [...]

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Thought for the Day

If you’re not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original.– Sir Ken Robinson
Take a leap. Dare. Be different.
(the gorgeous photo’s from LEN Magazine. Click on it to see the full-size prize-winning, joy-making photo. )

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When there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them

(On the Too Good to be Threw discussion board for professional resale shopkeepers, consignment shop owners, and thrift managers, one participant mentioned that the “authorities” are insisting she pay

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Happy Earth Day

The Fashioner of Things
had no original intentions
Mountains and rivers
are spirit, condensed. Wang Wen-wei

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Will ‘08 be great?

Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.”

 
Will 2008 be the year for your courage to shine? Will you finally do what you have dreamed of doing? Will it be opening your shop? Will it be taking your shop in a new and exciting direction? Will it be making your shop what [...]

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Are YOU your biggest stumbling block?

This is the insight I realized early and return to often. In most situations, I am the problem.
My mentalities, my pictures, my expectations, form the biggest obstacle to my success.
This quote, from The Flight of the Buffalo by James Belasco and Ralph C. Stayer, is something to keep in mind as you plan [...]

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Continuing Education

Today’s quote is for the resale entrepreneurs who try to introduce their peers to sources to help improve the public perception of resale.
All too often, our Ambassadors of Goodwill Within the Industry hear from these self-satisfied shopkeepers that they don’t need Too Good to be Threw because I’ve been in business three years and [...]

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How to love to go to work every morning (even if sometimes it’s all 7 mornings)

Today would have been my father’s birthday, so, in honor of him, an artist, today’s Quotation of Use:
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.

– Confucius

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Thought for the Day

Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it…
Serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

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