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.

Be YOU-nique.

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Indie designers to crave! Consignment to save!

Indie designers to crave! Consignment to save! This lovely is from emersonfry.com and I’m hoping to find it… or something LIKE it… in my favorite consignment shop.

Of course you shop consignment, resale and thrift to define your own style. Who wants their wardrobes, or their kids’ wardrobes, or their home to look like it came straight from the mall, right?

And not only do you get a wide selection of styles in resale, but sometimes you find unexpected gems from designers that you simply CANNOT find in the “real” stores, even if you live in a fashion hot spot.

The indies!

Here, for drooling over, a round-up of womenwear independent designers and manufacturers. I use these sites as inspiration for consignment shopping. Because I love the dress pictured here, I’ll know what to keep an eye out for when shopping. Loving the navy spiked with salsa orange, the front placket, the little pockets placed high…

If you know of a similar list of YOU-nique home goods, tell us in the comments below!

Why you should buy used from a resale shop, not a garage sale.

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Are you a SAFE resale shopper?Did you know that shops in our industry, consignment, resale, and thrift shops, abide by the safety precautions, recall notices, and best practices of the Consumer Protection Safety Commission and stay on top of safety issues before they allow any products on their selling floors…

and that you can’t count on someone in her driveway knowing whether or not that crib, clothing, or curio is safe?

Buy from an established shop. Don’t unknowingly endanger your children.

The well-dressed wedding guest.

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The greatest honor you can present the happy couple is to look your best at their wedding. But that doesn’t mean you have to spend more on your dress than you did on the wedding gift… when you shop resale, of course. Here’s what to look for:

Be a beautiful wedding guest when you shop consignment, resale or thrift!

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Remember, special-occasion dressing is the absolute BIGGEST BARGAIN when you shop consignment, resale & thrift! Find a shop near you on our Resale Directory & Zoomable Map.

85% should have been tossed.

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Just got word that one thrift chain, with four stores, has to throw away 85% of the clothing contributions it receives.

Eighty-five percent. That’s 8 and a half out of every 10 items that are donated which are not saleable. That’s very distressing.

Why? Because receiving, processing, and disposing of clothing and accessories that cannot be marketed eats up a lot of the money that these charities make.

Think about it.Don't donate trash to your thrift shop.

Now this chain, they aren’t overly picky. Nor are their customers. They sell stuff for a dollar… a lot of stuff. Belts for 25 cents, things like that. So what is wrong with the 85% that makes these goods unsaleable?

Boots with wear right through so toes would hang out. Rips that appear to have been made by denizens of Jurassic Park. Smells and soil and stains.

Not only are these things not pass-on-able, but they are sometimes dangerous. Every thrift shop staffer can tell you of the hidden razor blade, the corpse of something small and squishy, the stiff-with-sweat prom dress. What were these donors thinking? Endangering (or at least disgusting) workers, many of whom are volunteer and none of whom earn enough to deal with that. Not helping the nonprofit’s shop, but costing them trash fees, wasted energies and payroll expense.

So next time you’re deciding that “well, SOMEone can use it”, think twice. Is that actually true, or is what you’re shoving in that bag something which should, realistically, go in the trash?

If it’s not good enough for you to run it through the wash and smooth out the wrinkles

before you fold it neatly as a donation… it’s simply not saleable.  You’re doing no one any favor by filling up the donation box with unsaleable clothing.

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