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"Consignment Shops.  At brunch today, all Liz and Harriet could talk about was how they&amp;#039;ve been making money from consignment shops. At first I thought the mimosa had gotten to me. Making money from consignment shops? I always thought of consignment shops as places to go to save money. But making money is indeed what they&amp;#039;re doing. Here&amp;#039;s how. Every few months they go through all their closets and chests and make 2 piles. In one pile goes everything that&amp;#039;s in really good shape but hasn&amp;#039;t been used in 6 months or more. That&amp;#039;s what they take to consignment shops. (The other pile of not-so-hot- stuff is either donated or tossed.) Liz and Harriet told me they get anywhere from 10-30% of what they originally paid for an item, which isn&amp;#039;t a whole lot. But, it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;found money&amp;quot; from things they don&amp;#039;t use or want anymore. And it&amp;#039;s a whole lot easier than selling on eBay or other sites because they don&amp;#039;t have to take pictures or monitor bids. Best of all is that they now have a real incentive to clean out their closets on a regular basis.  Hmm. As soon as I finish this, I plan to check out consignment stores in my area because I think this could be a real Deal Maker! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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