Oh, you smell good… and appropriate!

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Perfume is a best-seller at consignment & resale, says HowToConsign.orgOne of the most popular items in womenswear resale shops is… perfume!

Why? It’s called fragrance wardrobing… having a variety of scents, just like you have a variety of fashion looks. No longer is it all about your “signature scent”, as your mom or grandma would say. Change up your perfume when you kick off the stilettos and slip into the Toms… or vice versa.

But there are some concerns. Let’s call them the Ps & Qs of Perfume Wearing, or as this article concludes:

Fragrance wardrobing allows us to express the many sides of who we are in any given environment and mood. There is certainly no shortage of great choices in fragrances but it is when and how we wear it, that will give the biggest impact of all.

Read Being led by the nose – the etiquette of wearing perfume

then do two things: see if you have scents you aren’t wearing that you should pass on to someone else… and go see what perfumes you can buy, just barely-used, at your favorite consignment, resale, or thrift shop!

Vintage label image courtesy of olddesignshop.com

Stashing your clutter in Less Obvious Places.

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HowToConsign.org says Cleaning is just putting things in less obvious places... like your favorite resale shop!A thought for this weekend:

Cleaning is just putting things in less obvious places.

So as you’re cleaning, think about a place that’s not only less obvious, but will declutter your life and bring new life to your gently-used good clothes and home items. Consign, sell, or donate them.

Get things out of your home, and let someone else enjoy them. At a profit to you or to your favorite charity.

And he knew what he was talking about!

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Nothing comes cheap, though the educated eye will always spot very nice things for the least money.    -Albert Hadley

Albert Hadley

Albert Hadley, a renowned interior designer whose brave and creative eye, distilling both classic and contemporary styles, made him a standard-bearing decorator for the rich and powerful in American society. Photo and text from The New York Times

 

Those friends of yours who always seem to find the best things when shopping resale?

You know, the ones who spot the cashmere in a sea of acrylic? The ones whose homes are ever-evolving into better quality furnishings? Whose closets and cupboards are full of found treasures that they are all too happy to tell you how little they paid for?

They’re the ones to go shopping with.

They’ll know the quality consignment shops, the best resale shops, and the primo thrift stores. Pay attention… and you’ll pay less for quality, distinctive new-to-you than you would mass-produced run-of-the-mill boring stuff at the mega-stores.