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6 Reasons why resale is good for you, your wallet, and your world.

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Resale is good for your wallet and your plantResale, no matter how the business operates, means cash in your pocket:

You get cash for your underloved items, or your favorite charity turns your cast-offs into cash for their mission, which benefits your community

You save cash and keep your family budget healthy when you shop resale before you shop the malls and megastores

You find goods you truly love, rather than those with an affordable price tag, because everything is so much more affordable resale. That means you don’t clutter up your life with things that will just “do.”

Most resale shops are local shops, which means that shopping in them supports your neighbors who work there and the consignors or sellers who use the shop’s services

Shopping resale helps local businesses as well, when the money earned at the shop supports other businesses in your community.

Buying already-manufactured goods means less pollution created from manufacturing, which saves your tax dollars, local, state, and federal,  spent on monitoring and cleaning up our environment.

Motherhood, consignment shopkeeping, and more: One woman’s mix

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Juggling motherhood, a consignment shop, and so much more!

This is not Sharon. SHE has MORE balls in the air!

One of our most forward-thinking HowToConsign.com Sponsors, Little Green Beans, was founded not even three years ago in Austin TX by Sharon Munroe, mother of three.

In addition to her family and shop, Sharon is involved in Link Coworking, a modern space where entrepreneurs can establish connections and collaborate with other professionals and founded the Advanced Maternal Age Project, a blog of collected stories by women who decided at age 35 or older to start a family… so I thought her story would be

inspiring to all mothers, today on Mother’s Day!

 

Working full time in marketing for more than 20 years, Munroe was a busy and driven career woman with no specific timeline for starting a family. It wasn’t until she was 39 that Munroe finally found herself ready to start down the path of motherhood. She was confident, financially stable and had recently married a supportive man. So at age 40, she gave birth to her first son. She later became a foster parent to a baby girl (eventually adopting her) and gave birth to another son just before her 44th birthday.

See Sharon featured on the HowToConsign.com Facebook page

Read the full article in Austin Woman Magazine.

Read about Link Coworking here.

Happy Mother’s Day, Sharon, and all the other mothers who are exhausted just reading about Sharon’s life!

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Eavesdropping on real-life resale shopkeepers.

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In case you ever wondered just why your friends love to resale shop (what, the monetary savings and the ecological benefits aren’t enough? The shopping local aspects of helping your community? The thrill of the hunt?), I’m going to let you eavesdrop on some consignment and resale shop owners as they answer a question from a peer in Ohio. She asked:

What do you like the best about being a resale shop owner?

Here are the answers she got on a private discussion board online:

That’s easy. It’s the friends I’ve made that I wouldn’t have made otherwise.

Love the variety of work. There’s never the same day twice.Resale shopkeepers love their job... and you!

I like how it’s made me more creative, patient and wiser.

I have made amazing friends I would never have met otherwise.

Oh, and there’s the treasure hunting every day, too.

Every day is like Christmas seeing all the great things coming in.

Love meeting people and helping them dress their children adorably but affordable!!

I love being my own boss…

… love the relationships we’ve built with both our consignors and customers

My staff and customers, that it still feels giddy when I get a really fabulous consignment, that our donations are helping a really great charity, and I’m not gonna lie… my WARDROBE!

I love the challenge. I do things today that I never even dreamed about.

Dressing mannequins and changing the decor in the store. Sort of like playing barbies and playing house all at once.

The best part of owning a resale shop is the way you can run your own show, make a reasonable living and be a positive influence in your store and community that you serve.

The best part is loving my job (even after all these years).

Thanks to so many shopkeepers, including these Sponsors at HowToConsign.com, the proprietors of Upscale Fashions in GA,  Remarkable Resale in IL, Repeat Street in IL and many other shops across the continent!