Mission Impossible? Mission Undesirable! Location: Garage -- All labeled according to size and type of items. Items: Children's Clothing, Baby Clothing and Baby Items (Blankets, Hats, Bibs, etc.)
The Reason: I have none! But, it is the only area in my home that I am not keeping things simple and elegant. (These are all the clothes that I have received/bought for my Children. I have never sold any of them. Due to always being pregnant when we move. I just have never gone through them! Each box is labeled according to gender and size. So the containers are very organized! ) Well, it is time for a change! We are moving again and I am NOT pregnant so I have the energy! So, I got started this weekend because the consignment store season is opening up for new items for SPRING and the post wide Garage Sale will be coming up in a month or so too. So, this will be an on going SEASONAL project to get rid of this stuff too. I am hoping to go through a couple of these containers a week. Yes, have no doubt that I will be involved with this project for a very long time!
I am keeping 10 tubs of our favorites for giving to needy family, other children we might have,etc. I am purging clothes for the Spring and Fall 2011 Sales.
What I will need to do? I will sort, wash, iron when needed, hang, Tag and Take to the Consignment Stores or Sale in the Garage Sale.
Updates:
Saturday Jan 29th - 2 containers which previously organized. So, I washed and folded the purged items. They are now ready to go to the consignement store.
Saturday Feb 26th - Organized Children's Shoes in Zip lock bags for sale.
Saturday Feb 26th - Purged Containers : Girls size 10, Girls size 8, Girls size 7, Girls size 6, Girls 4, Girls size 3, Girls size 2, Girls size 24 months, Girls size 12 months, Girls size 9 months, Girl size 6 mo., Girls size 0 to 3 months!
Monday Feb 28th - Purged Containers : Boys size 3, Boys size 2, Boys size 24 months, Boys size 12 months, Boys size 9 months,
Tuesday March 1st - Purged Boys size 6 mo. Boy size 3 mo
Wed March 2nd - Seperated Girls Spring from Fall. Seperated Boys Spring from Fall. Washed all clothes.
Thurs March 3rd - I purged some of my closet too. I dropped off ADULT Women Clothes to consignment shop. (Received a check FEB 1st Check 17.10) ( Received a check MARCH 2nd 13.00)
March 4th - Put 100 Girls and Boys Spring Clothes on Wire Hangers. Tagged.
Saturday March 5th - Dropped 100 children's items (ended up being 91) to the County "one week" Consignment Sale.
Mon March 7th - Put Girls and Boys Spring Clothes on Wire Hangers. Tagged more items.
Tue March 8 - Dropped 100 items at a City "one week" consignment sale.
Thur March 10 - A small container of clothes that I already knew would not sale at the city or country sale was dropped off at a consignment shop. ( a check for 12.50)
Sat March 19 - Picked up items that did not sale from County Week Sale. Approximently 40 Items did not sale.
Sun March 20 - Picked up items from the City Week Sale. Approximently 60 of the items did not sale. Not surprising. This weekly consignment sale is huge. It fills up the size of a Walmart building.
Mon - Thurs March 21- 24th - Washed and Hung all winter items for Winter consignment sale. They are now ready for fall and I put them away.
Thurs- March 24th - Consolidated items that did not sell from the Country Week Sale and the City Week sale. Took these clothes to a Consignment Shop for what might be the last ditch effort in getting money. (a check for 16.50)
Friday - March 25th Took 4 containers full of stained clothing to be re-cycled for other textiles. (The stains would not come out of clothes! Mostly these were clothes that friends handed down.)
Monday March 28th - County "ONE WEEK" Sale check was $130ish
Friday April 1st - City "ONE WEEK" Sale check was $84.15
Saturday April 9th - Consignment Shop check was $83.05
Friday May 6th - Consignment Shop check was $13.44
* Consignment stores are FULL for the Spring the rest will need to be sold at a garage sale. The stuff for Fall is all ready to be tagged for the Fall Sales.
Saturday May 7th - Garage Sale in which we sold other items as well at clothes $750.00 ($300 was clothes)
FINISH with THIS PROJECT for the SPRING and SUMMER
TOTAL SOLD at garage sale and consignment sales for Spring/Summer Season is $1119.64
_________________________$750. 00 at garage sale but ONLY 300.00 from garage sale in clothes/toys
( I sold items for 50 cents, $1.00 and $2.00)
$369.64 was the total I received from selling the Spring/Summer clothes to consignment shops!
So total on selling clothes $300. + $369. 64 = 669.64 ish!
In the end: I think I only sold 6 tubs of clothing! Not bad for the $ but not good for the purging!
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ReplyDeleteGood for you!!
ReplyDeleteThat is amazing, Carmen! You put me to shame. I'm not, by nature, an organizer. I think I could take lessons from you.
ReplyDeleteCarmen, if you think that picture looks awful - I wouldn't want you to see the state of my garage right now! Yikes. We go through ours every summer, and through the year it just gets all jumbled up again! I like the "do you hire out" comment! Ha ha. Cleaning, and organizing is a wonderful goal!~Denise
ReplyDeleteGreat information! I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now. Thanks!
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