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  1. This evening's clothing exchange was one of the best. The highlight? A BP member came! And she brought lots and lots of great clothes! And found lots of clothes! And is terrific, too! And lives a few blocks from where I grew up! If I did that at all!

    1. LipstickLady

      LipstickLady

      Why have you not opened a consignment shop yet? I have two girlfriends who own two traveling boutiques -- one for children and one for adults. Each boutique opens 3 or 4 times a year in a rented space for a week. They make a BUTT TON of money and while it's a crazy three weeks for them (set up and tear down), they end up with a lot of great clothes as well as cash in their pockets.

    2. LipstickLady

      LipstickLady

      So they advertise the date and location of the sale. For a week before the sale, people come with their clothing items tagged, hung and priced. They are assigned a number that they place on their tags. They get 30 - 40% of the sale price and my friends get the remaining cut. It's a ZOO. The sellers get a pre-sale date to shop before it opens to the public. Anyone who volunteers gets a discount, too. There is a few days of after sale when sellers come collect their clothes or they are donated to a clothes bank. The big work for them is keeping track of who gets what as the clothes sell. It's definitely a lot of work, but the participants are HUGE and bring PILES and PILES of clothes.

       

      I have never participated but the $$ flow is great for all interested. Because the seller prices their own stuff, it's up to them how much they potentially earn. It's a great concept all around.

    3. LipstickLady

      LipstickLady

      The venue size is HUGE. Clothes, toys, handbags, shoes, maternity... HUGE for Virginia is about 10,000 square feet of empty store front. It's a cool process and a brilliant idea.

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