The Practical Kids’ Consignment Seller: Outgrown Clothes, Real Money
Kids outgrow everything — and that pile of outgrown clothes, shoes, toys, and baby gear is worth real money if you know how to sell it.
The Practical Kids’ Consignment Seller is the beginner’s playbook for children’s consignment, covering both worlds: the big seasonal sale events (Rhea Lana’s, Just Between Friends, and independent regional sales) where you price your own items and keep 60–75% of every sale, and the buy-it-now stores (Once Upon a Child, Kid to Kid) that hand you cash on the spot.
Inside: how to pick the right sale, registration and consignor numbers, what actually sells (baby gear, shoes, boutique brands), the third-of-retail pricing rule, prep standards that pass inspection, the hanging-and-tagging workflow, tagging guns and supplies, drop-off day, volunteering for higher commissions and presale access, half-price days, unsold-item triage, the buy-counter playbook, and the money chapter — payouts, recordkeeping, and taxes in plain English.
Who it’s for: Parents. If your garage, attic, or spare bedroom has a mountain of outgrown kids’ stuff and your kids have moved on to the next size (again), this book turns that mountain into money. It’s for the mom or dad who wants the best return without becoming a full-time reseller, and for the savvy parent who realizes that kids’ consignment sales are one of the few side hustles that starts with inventory you already own.
One practical tip from the book: Price at a third of retail — and prep like an inspector is watching, because one is. The third-of-retail rule keeps your items priced to move instead of priced to sit, and clean, hung, tagged items pass inspection the first time while wrinkled, stained, or loose items come straight back home with you. Do the prep work once, do it right, and your drop-off day is five minutes instead of a negotiation. Bonus move: volunteer at the sale. Higher commission, presale access to shop before the public, and you learn exactly what sells — for free.
The Practical Kids’ Consignment Seller is 15 chapters with action steps at the end of each.
What else is inside: registration and consignor numbers (get them early — popular sales fill up), drop-off day without the panic, half-price days and how to decide which items go half-price and which come home, unsold-item triage so you’re not storing the same bin until next season, and the buy-counter playbook for the stores that pay cash on the spot. Done right, one season’s outgrown pile funds the next season’s bigger sizes — the closest thing to a self-funding kids’ budget there is.
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