Spreading good will via candy canes

Tucking an extra in your customers’ shopping bags is a nice gesture anytime, and especially during the holidays. It shows appreciation…and builds word-of-mouth. That’s the shop that put a little something in my bag I was telling you about.
Maybe a prewrapped candy cane with your biz card tied on with a bit of ribbon? An [...]

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Recycling, regifting and repurposing previously- cherished…

Need a holiday poster for your consignment, resale, thrift shop?
Here’s one for you, from me, to wish you a happy holiday and a Merry Thrifty one too!
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Holidays: Make them special for your town

A continuation of our series on how the holidays can be special and frugal… and while helping your community be stronger.
Did you realize that you can help your town recover from

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Holidays: Make them special for kids

This week, we consignment, resale, and thrift shopkeepers examine how the upcoming holidays can be special without doing harm to any family’s budget. Each day, we’ll look at how a not-extravagant celebration is not only POSSIBLE but PREFERABLE to those debt-ridden holidays of yore.
And our first installment, of course, concerns children. So many families feel [...]

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