Celebrate with HowToConsign!

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Halloween ghosts from countryliving.com

These cute ghosts are tissue-paper wedding-bell decorations, trimmed with felt features and draped in cheesecloth! So clever and easy, from countryliving.com

Happy Halloween from all of us on the Resale Shop Directory!

Haven’t decided yet what to be for Halloween? We’ve collected up

the best, easiest costumes for you…

most of which can be put together very thriftily at your local resale shops. (We are most definitely opposed to anyone, from the dog to the kids to you, purchasing cheap, imported trash that you’ll use once: what a waste of the earth’s resources!) Click here for our 4-page PDF of great, eco-friendly costume ideas.

And for the kiddies (though we won’t tell if you pick up a crayon or two) two coloring pages for the season. Click and print out our

Fall coloring page, or our Happy Pumpkins page.

And enjoy the most fun holiday of all, with love from the Sponsors of The Resale Shop Directory! Oh, and don’t miss

our Pinterest Board, Halloween with Resale

Been resale shopping lately?

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Sure, we all know there are treasures to be found in thrift, resale and consignment shops, but usually they’re treasures particular to ourselves: the perfect kitchen curtains, backpack, ballet flats or home decor item.

But this fellow spent a few bucks… and ended up with “the Holy Grail of American West memorabilia”  worth over $5,000,000. Yes, that’s FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.  Read about it.

Thrift shop photo worth $5 million

Take the 52 Things Challenge

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A recent study came up with what, to me, is a call to action. The study said that

the average American owns 52 things that, if they evaporated tomorrow, wouldn’t be missed.

As a career consignment shopkeeper, that number doesn’t shock me. In fact, I think it’s probably low. Why we all give space and attention to possessions we don’t care about is a bit of a mystery. So I decided to de-clutter my life of 52 things in front of the camera. Maybe this will inspire you to do the same. Here goes:

Step 1: Clear the Decks.

Empty drawing board, ready to receive the 52 Thing Challenge at HowToConsign.comI’ve cleaned off my drawing table in preparation to showing you all the stuff that I simply do not need in my life. I’m going to go through my house and let you Continue reading →