Benefits of a consignment sale:
1. You can make more money! You can price your items higher than garage sale prices because a consignment sale is like an “upscale” garage sale. Plus, more of your items will sell at a consignment sale than a garage sale because you will have 1000s more buyers, and a targeted buyers pool.
2. You don’t have to deal with phone calls, meeting places, and no-shows with craigslist.
3. You drop off your things during the convenient drop-off times – you don’t even have to put out or display your things. Just drop them off!
4. You don’t have to advertise, put up signs, or get up at the crack of dawn to set up for your sale and greet the “early birds.” Heck, you don’t even have to be at the consignment sale!
5. You will sell your things over a 3-day weekend versus a 90-day consignment period. That means you get your money faster!
6. YOU price your items. Unlike at a consignment shop that chooses the price. And there is no bartering like at garage sales.
7. You get to shop the Consignor Pre-Sale. That means you get first-dibs before the general public is let loose to shop.
8. Consigning is helping all of us be more “Green.” By re-selling and re-buying, we are keeping as much as we can out of our landfills!
9. You can donate your unsold items to a local charity and all you have to do is mark on your tags that you wish to donate, and the event organizer will do the rest.
10. You can clean out your closet and toy rooms, making your life simpler – it always feels good to get rid of things we no longer need or use!
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We have one here in La I have been wanting to join it just seems overwhelming. I look forward to next weeks post 🙂
I love those! We have them where I live as well, but they are not nearly that big 🙂
This is awesome! We have a few major consignment sales that go on in my neck of the woods twice a year. I have no children yet, but believe this is the only way to go. Why buy full price items that they are going to grow out of in a month? And garage sales/thrift stores can be a pain. The consignment sale is great. My sister in law swears by them. She consigns every season and gets my niece’s entire wardrobe for $150ish and then sells those clothes the following year. It pays for itself. Look forward to reading more!
Blessings,
Nicole at Working Kansas Homemaker
Thank you for this post! I seriously never thought of consigning things myself–I’ve always just taken them to a consignment shop and let them sell it–ha ha! But I know we have one in our area, so I’m really interested to hear more tips on consigning. Hope to see you back at our Thrifty Thursday link-up next week!
Like Jenn, I am looking forward to your next post. I’m pretty minimalistic so I’m curious to see if it would be worthwhile with out tons of clothes. 🙂
Thanks for linking up at Thrifty Thursday!
This is awesome! I wish we had something like that here. We had our first-ever garage sale in Zagreb a few weeks ago (my sister’s neighbor). It was a HIT! I wish I had enough stuff to sell to make it worth doing one myself. 🙂 Thanks for linking up this useful post! Blessings from Croatia: A Little R & R: http://www.littlerandr.org
Wow, I’ve never heard of a sale like that. Unfortunately, I think we don’t have them around here. I live outside of town, so no garage sales…it’s the consignment shops for me, and I never seem to do too well with those.