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Consignment shops?
I'm in the mood to declutter! I spent an hour in the attic and have four boxes of kids clothes/toys/etc in my vehicle ready to be taken to a consignment shop this weekend! I'm going to a "cash on the spot" shop which a friend of mine used and had good luck with. H's company has an internal "craigslist" so we have listed a stroller and bassinet on their. Two hours later he received an email about the stroller.
Has anyone else used a similar consignment/resale shop to get rid of things? We've sold things on Craigslist with no problems before. All local law enforcement encourage people to use their lobbies for transactions if desired but we haven't felt the need.
Re: Consignment shops?
Yes! I had this same experience. I don't try to sell there anymore.
I do use Craigslist for popular baby/kid items where I live, which is boots, snow pants, and other winter gear. I also sell all baby gear items there too like playsets, bouncers, walkers, etc..
FYI: In January, Babies R Us has a sale where if you bring in any used stroller or car seat no matter its condition, they give you 25% off a brand new baby gear item. When our family out-grew the basket/pumpkin car seat for the infants, we sold it there and got 25% off a brand new car seat booster for 3+ year-olds. When we needed to upgrade from a single to a double stroller, we did this too.
That is what we did with our kitchen last summer. The only problem was someone had to be home for them to pick it up.
When I lost a lot of weight, I consigned most of my clothes at local consignments. I actually had pretty good luck, but they were decent clothes and a lot of work attire. As a pregnant lady--we bought our swing from Craigslist, it was the easiest transaction and we saved $100. I frequently look for baby stuff on there all the time, clothes and big ticket items (like the swing).
For the most part, we usually just donate to GoodWill or give to my MIL(she has multiple garage sales a year). I hate clutter, so I tend to want it gone quickly.
We had a garage sale earlier (annual citywide) but it's so hit and miss on who will stop and what sizes, season, gender options are needed.
There is a thrift store right across the street from work. That is where I take the majority of my old clothes and other stuff. CL has been a god send when I am looking for a tenant or need an appliance, but I personally haven't had much luck selling on there.
I've heard about those Facebook garage sales. I'll have to check that out.
A few months after Hurricane Katrina, I went to one of those storage unit auctions and bought a unit for $11. I made about $400 selling the stuff on Ebay and a bit on CL. But then I used freecycle to give a lot of it away. It was such a good feeling because I had really useful things like gently used towels and dishes...that wouldn't necessarily be something that would sell well...but were so needed and helpful to some of my fellow New Orleanians who had lost everything.
Alas, the Faberge eggs and gold bullion must have been in someone else's storage unit, lol. Though I did find a mug filled with $32 in dollar coins and a diamond/opal gold ring. Small diamonds and opals, but still a really pretty ring. I kept that
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You have to decide is what you might get through craigslist or a buy/sell group on face book worth the time you will have to invest to sort things out, post them and them meeting up with someone compared to just putting it all in a bad and taking to to store for cash or if you still have kids that fit into sizes the store has, a store credit towards future purchases.