Consigning

I'll be totally honest and say when I had friends who started shopping consignment sales I kinda turned my nose up like a big fat snob...but after visiting the Monkey Hunt consignment sale in Columbia a few years ago I completely changed my mind...and after I started buying clothes on the regular of my children...and realizing how often clothes have to be purchased...suddenly gently used clothing didn't seem like such a bad thing. The Monkey Hut sale is also in a more affluent part of Columbia so the quality is fantastic.

Since I now know we will not be having any more children and I don't have to pass Ruth Ann's clothes down to a younger baby sister...it was time for me to try my hand at selling in a consignment sale...

I started bagging and tagging and drove my stash across town a week ago...



There were 2 more totes behind the 2 you can see...and that's a bouncy seat on top...I threw it in at the last minute.

I would say my first attempt was a success...I sold just over $800 worth of clothes...after the cut from the person who organizes the whole thing my take home was $525...not bad for my first try and it was all clothing with the exception of the bouncy seat...and I had it priced cheap just to get it out of my living room. I'm going to put some more clothes and the left-overs from this sale into a sale coming up a little closer to home. I have to say my favorite part of the whole experience was checking my total sales each night and seeing that number climb, climb, climb...my least favorite part...realizing how much money I've spent on my children's clothing!