Who needs to jangle their nerves over holiday shopping?
Here’s how to make holiday shopping a JOY and a blessing.
Home-style, recycle-friendly Advent calendar counts down the days to Christmas!
Counting the days to Christmas… or have kids who are doing so? This Advent calendar/ garland is just PERFECT!
Click through to get the how-to’s: just small brown paper bags, washi tape and clothespins! (And don’t miss all the other “Celebrating, Thriftily” ideas on HowToConsign.com’s Pinterest Board!)
Okay, I get the fake Christmas trees… but not the fake presents.
Fake scan be fun, like those 1960’s aluminum Christmas trees… or they can be felonious.
It’s great fun to buy Christmas presents for those you love and it’s exciting to find bargains on luxury items friends and family might covet.
In your holiday shopping, you might be tempted to buy from sources that you aren’t 100% comfortable with, honesty-wise. Be careful out there… you could be buying a fake. Here’s how to tell… and why you shouldn’t.
The alternative to buying a counterfeit designer item? Buying a gently-used REAL designer item. At a reputable consignment, resale or thrift shop, of course!
Photo credit: By Michelleration (Flickr) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons.
Chanel. Really. The Real Chanel.
In the late 1950’s or the early 1960’s, I remember my mother teaching me how to check the quality of gently-used good clothes. The lesson that remains (really, I can see where we were, how the air felt, and even smell my mother’s Arpège perfume!) was the delicate, supple Continue reading
Is your shopping ZIP being ZAPPED?
Did you used to love shopping? You couldn’t wait to get out there? But now, you’re feeling like your shopping ZIP has been ZAPPED by
Pricing that is absurd: suspect they’re overpricing just so they can fool you into thinking you’re getting a bargain when they “mark it down”?
Boring selection: offended by the chains’ assumption that you actually want to look just like everyone else?
Not even being able to find someone to take your money? I mean, here you are, cash in hand, and there’s no salesperson to ring you up… or if there is, it’s like you’re interrupting them with your silly need for service.
No JOY in shopping the chain stores? The department stores, the discounters, the outlet stores which aren’t really even outlets?
If shopping “regular” stores has you stressed and bored, it’s time to regain the SHOPPING ZIP you deserve.
Break up with those mall, chain, discount impersonal stores and get cozy with your shop-local, personable resale shops!
You can once again experience the JOY of shopping, of finding just the thing: something that looks like you, fits your budget, and makes you feel like a million.
Click to discover the Professional Resalers who welcome you with astonishing variety, real-life prices, personal service and best of all: real, local, personal service.
How to Consign 