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Where Kate Holmes, Industry Icon of TGtbT.com, gets to hector, lecture, and browbeat the good shopkeepers of Resale-dom

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Auntie Kate The Blog is part of the Too Good to be Threw Family of Resale Sites. Meet the rest of the Family:

Too Good to be Threw The Complete Operations Manual for Resale   & Consignment Shops

All the info on running a consignment shop, resale shop, or thrift store, all in one complete operations manual, the only manual written by a lifelong resale shopkeeper.

Too Good to be Threw is The Premiere Site for Professional Resalers. With free articles, the most-active Sharing discussion board for resalers on the web, and even a Messy Back Room, no wonder thousands of shopkeepers make a visit here a daily to-do!

HowToConsign is for resalers who consign, buy outright, and sell donated goods.HowToConsign.com is for customers and clients of resale shops. Turn Your Cluttered Closets into Cash! Informative articles, how to get the most out of every type of shop, and a searchable Directory of Resalers Who Welcome You…even maps to locate shops!

Products for the Professional Resaler: For focused shopkeeper topics, information specifically designed for the resale industry.

The Resale Guru will be showcasing how to make secondhand items yours!

And meet Auntie Kate, the Family matriarch:

Auntie Kate the resale expert at Too Good to be Threw

Kate’s been around resale since she was 8. That’s a long long time. Everything about her is gently-used. And, BTW? Her copywriter father developed that tag line for her mother’s consignment shops…in 1954.

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