Wrapping Holiday Gifts: Eco-Problem your Consignment or Resale Shop Can Solve

You know the horrid, horrid waste in gift-wrap overindulgence? (If not, go here.)
Well, here’s 2 ideas for to use your home-town friendliness factor to
save the earth,
show everyone how fun frugality can be,
and draw attention to your shop
as well as your merchandise’s “giftability.”
Idea #1: Simple and no-cost:

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Buy One Gift One…perfect consignment shop holiday promo.

What’s so great about consignment shops? Why does your town treasure your business? And how can we activate those reasons to turn our shops and our customers into a gift that helps our community?

They treasure your shop because you’re

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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!
Download the full-size file

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Hiding your (holiday) lights under a bushel.

Okay, so you’ve planned a Local Artist’s Fair for the Saturday before Thanksgiving in your consignment shop.
Great! Count on me!
I’ll be there. Look at those terrific offerings in the email body text. What resale shopper in her right mind wouldn’t

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How to write to Santa

A Christmas/ Holiday Thrifty Idea for consignment and resale shops:

How to write to Santa: Now THAT’s an eye-catching email headline from your consignment or resale shop right about now!
And best of all, it’s an email you won’t even have to write…because it’s already been done…as a press release from the USPS. There’s even

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Why Consignment & Resale Shops Shouldn’t Give Up the (Christmas) Ghost

I hope you’re knee-and-elbow deep in Christmas (Holiday, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice etc) planning this weekend. I hope your expectations for the holiday selling period in your consignment (resale, thrift etc) shop are great.
But I suspect they are not. And worse, I suspect that your very expectations are going to be self-fulfilling.
If you do not

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Stop Giving Cash Off in your Consignment Shop NOW

No more $5 off a $35 purchase or $10 off a $50 purchase or whatever you have been doing; STOP IT RIGHT NOW.
Really.
At least for now.
Here’s what you do instead:
You give

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How many costumes have you received this week?

Did you let your consignors*, your sellers, or your donors know that you want those Halloween costumes now?
No?
Then do it forthwith! (That means make it snappy!)
Why? Because, yes, you can make money from costumes of all sorts the whole year ’round. Read on, for an article from a past issue of our print newsletter, [...]

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Pumpkins all put away? Ready for a Merry Recycled Holiday?

For Consignment and Resale and Thrift Shops, a special Product for the Professional Resaler: Find out how to make November and December months that you’ll love!

 
Yes, [...]

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I’ll bet you thought I forgot all about the princess.

Well, a vampire, as mentioned earlier today here on Auntie Kate The Blog, is a pretty easy costume to pull together at any consignment or resale shop. But a princess?
At last, a use for all those ugly bridesmaid dresses. (Quick, a trip to Goodwill may be in your future…as well as a replenishing, if need [...]

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A vampire and a princess walk into a consignment shop….

A vampire and a princess walk into a consignment shop….
Now’s the time for your biggest costume push. Use all your

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A blog to turn your Consignment, Resale, and Thrift customers on to!

Make sure your customer Have an Eco- & Budget-Friendly Holiday this year!
The holidays are a time for joy and celebration, not worrying about the waste you’re creating on the planet and the wreck it might make of your family budget. We’ll explore, together, 100 ways to have a festive and waste-free holiday, brought to you courtesy [...]

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Christmas is Past.

Nothing sadder than the picked-over remains of holiday goods.  We just started the policy that the consignment period for holiday-specific goods ends the day after the holiday, no matter when in the preceding 60 days the item came in. We’ve done this now for Halloween and Thanksgiving, and yesterday, Dec. 27, was clear-out day for [...]

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All I want for Christmas

The best part of Christmas shopping is, of course, finding stuff YOU want. After all, who knows you better?
Here’s what I want and/or need, depending on your definitions:
Passionflower vine (see photo): I have a

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It’s Christmas: Cut the chains of slavery

Total bankcard debt per bankcard borrower is $5,710. This was alternatively described as the total balance of bank-issued credit cards per consumer. (Source: TransUnion, December 2008)
Scary? You betcha. That quote’s just part of some eye-opening information. It’s hard to imagine that a couple could have, in addition to

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