Don’t you love tips? Here’s 101 of them.

Fashion tips on HowToConsign.orgI love to collect tips of all sorts. You love fashion.

These guys have done a wonderful job of collecting up

101 Fashion Tips & Tricks.

Which are your favorites? I’m going with #97. Not that I’d actually waste good vodka, but …  And I have lived my life according to #31. But beware! Tip #5 is

TOTALLY USELESS

to smart resale, consignment and thrift buyers, and is actually a big no-no. Just sayin’

What resale shopkeepers wish they could tell you

Cows coming home, straight from the horse's mouth...If you know a resale shopkeeper, you probably know that she or he can talk about the industry ’til the cows come home.

Why shop resale, how to shop resale, what to do to make your items sell, and even the first steps to take if you want to open a consignment shop or start a resale store.

And here’s what you’d hear, straight from the horse’s mouth:

How To Shop Resale, as told by real resale shopkeepers

Cow photobombing a stuck horse, from here.

Clean, current, and cute: What shopkeepers know

Clean, current, and cute

That’s the simple answer, when consignment or resale shopkeepers are asked

“What can you sell for me?”

Here’s what they’d say to you:

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Your favorite consignment or resale shopkeeper can sell your clean, current, and cute thingsClean: Rule number one. We might even say Commandment number one. And clean means freshly-cleaned, not six months ago when you put it away last season. Why? Dust, dander, household fragrances… all of these make your almost-new (or even new-with-tags!) items less Continue reading