A sure way to make your gently-used clothes worth more at a consignment or resale shop is to keep your wardrobe up-to-date. Pass underloved garments on before they become dated hanging in your closet! This article from Apartment Therapy will get you started. Our thanks to Vena and Rene of Selective Seconds for finding this info!
ReSell
Turn your cluttered closets & cupboards into cash!
Keep it… or pass it on?
Image from Too Good to be Threw Manual for Resale & Consignment Shops
We all of us accumulate more stuff than we need, right? My weaknesses include old wooden chairs and, for some reason, small tables.
Way more than I need or even have room for.
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How to fund the kids’ college… with denim
How many pairs of jeans do you reckon you have bought, or will buy, your child from birth to college entrance?
40? 80? Every family will come up with different numbers, but the point is:
A lot.
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HowToConsign’s clean-out tool
Is it time to get rid of it?
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Sometimes it seems like our possessions possess us, instead of the other way around. If you are like us, there’s a lot of stuff that you’ve accumulated that you really don’t need, want, or enjoy.
But sometimes it’s hard to part with belongings. You think you might still want it or need it or love it.
Here’s our simple way to see Continue reading
How to give a glass of water to 900 people.
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard has written a book, The Responsible Company, about how we should create and sell goods that are high-quality, recyclable and repairable.
We couldn’t agree more! And Patagonia does make useful stuff that people tend to keep on using, which is responsible. We should all buy and keep high-quality goods… the Earth would be better for it.
But still, according to Chouinard in a Fortune magazine article, making a single Patagonia organic cotton polo shirt
uses up drinking water to supply 900 people for a full day
produces 30 times its weight in carbon dioxide
and creates 3 times its weight in trash?
Wouldn’t it be better, say consignment. resale, and thrift shopkeepers, if when someone does tire of their clothes or lamps or chairs, they recycle them, and raise a glass of cool, refreshing, life-sustaining water to the planet?
So next time you need a polo shirt or a side table or a tricycle, shop secondhand first! (And the next time you tire of that perfectly-good Patagonia polo shirt, call me!)
Patagonia: a responsible company. Photo courtesy of http://www.sxc.hu/
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