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The 14th Annual Half-Pint Resale is here! Shopping tips inside-
The 14th annual Half-Pint Resale is here!
Get your resuable bags ready and your cheat sheets complete. Fall and winter are right around the corner – and my guess is that there are littles (and school-aged bigs) who could use some new-to-you clothing, some toys, and how about a few birthday gifts stashed away – all on a budget?
14th Semi-Annual Fall/Winter Half-Pint Resale
Madison Curling Club
FREE ENTRANCE AND PARKING
Saturday, September 13, 2014- 8am-7pm
Sunday, September 14, 2014- 8am-1pm (when everything is half off!)
Here are a couple of things that might help you prepare for the season’s biggest shopping extravaganza:
1) Volunteers will be wearing black and will be wearing nametags. They are here to help you! There are a couple of volunteers with special duties that will really help you out: Volunteers in the GEAR/LARGE ITEM AREA will help you purchase large items so you can easily purchase them without hindering the rest of your shopping experience (look for the signs on the wall). Volunteers with a ASK ME ABOUT BABY CARRIERS sign on their backs are ladies who know a TON about baby carriers and will be hanging around in that area during a few hours of the sale to help you try carriers on and learn about what will be best for you and your baby. We hope that these folks will help make your shopping experience better. Read more about the types of baby carriers you might find at Half-Pint Resale on our website, with a guest post by Cynthia Bachhuber, Wraps & Slings South Central Wisconsin.
2) There are two main areas at the Madison Curling Club. In the lobby area, there are tables, seats, and places to just take a load off! Feel free to come in and take a seat, nurse your baby, dig into some food from Slide Food Cart (which will be onsite during lunch and dinner hours Friday during the presales). You are more than welcome to come and hang out – we only ask that you leave all yet-to-be-purchased items on the sales floor.
New this year, early in the sale you’ll also find our new area, BIG EXPRESS, which will feature large items that might not otherwise fit on the sales floor, and that you purchase separately from the items on the main sales floor. And good news, you can use your credit card to purchase these items. We’ll hold them there or you can take them right out to the car!
The main sale area is in the arena part of the building. We will have hold tables where you could bag your items, if you say, need to go sit and nurse your babe or use the restroom. NOTE: The temperature in the arena area is similar in temperature to the temperature outside, due to the nature of the space. Dress in layers!
3) Spend some time reading through our Shopping Tips. There are a few things to highlight…
4) Strollers are NOT allowed during peak shopping times (anytime before Noon on Saturday). It gets crowded and it would be unsafe for everyone. We also highly recommend you not bring children. We know – sometimes you have no choice! But we’ve had several kids get lost (think kids shorter than the racks and at some peak shopping times, several hundred people packing the space). Finally, Children of any size that are WORN in a carrier are ALWAYS welcome, anytime! If you do bring kids, please make sure that they do not play with the toys or sit in the gear. We’ve had kids break things (and then the item is unsellable) or have had people pass over things they want to buy because they think that they are accounted for, only to find out later that the person using the item wasn’t intending to buy it, and then a consignor lost the sale.
5) Check out all of our tips about holding items on our shopping tips page. PLEASE! Don’t abandon items on this table! Shoppers and consignors alike miss out.
6) Don’t forget to come on Sunday during the Half-Price sale! Everything (excluding rare green-tagged items over $75 that a consignor asked to be excluded from the sale) is half-off!
7) Do you tweet? Post on facebook? Instagram? Post your #hpscore after the sale and maybe you’ll win some Half-Pint goods! Also share the event on facebook!
8) Did you know that you can recycle all of your plastic bags after Half-Pint? If you can’t use them again, check out these tips!
8) And last, but not least, We only take cash and check! Keeping consignor checks as high as possible and keeping as much money in the community as possible.
-Ellen and Lisa
PS – Half-Pint is only possible because of the tremendous community we are a part of. Say thank to these folks next time you see them
PPS – Save a couple of bucks for some super awesome Half-Pint goods such as our awesome Midwest Clay Project handmade mugs (tees and reusable bags still available as well) You can carry the Half-Pint love with you year round.
Make it Safer
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2 Days of the Best in Kid’s Thrift is coming your Way
It doesn’t feel like Fall, and we hope it doesn’t creep up on us too fast. However, you can’t deny that it’s reaching the end of July, AND many of us are starting to think about back to school. We promise to enjoy August, but in the mean time, it wouldn’t hurt to take a few seconds to prepare for what will inevitably come.
Enter Half-Pint Resale. No reason not to take advantage of some summer nights and glass of wine to start going through the basement bins to figure out what you can sell to make room for what you’ll need this fall, and figure out what you need so you can be ready to take advantage of thrifty prices on quality items you need (ok, and want).
First, get the sale on your calendar. We’ll again be holding the sale at the ever Awesome Goodman Community Center, located on the near east side of Madison, in one of our favorite hoods (lots of awesome shops on Atwood Avenue, and situated right on the bike path!) We’ll also continue to have Loot Valet service which allows shoppers to leave their purchased items with a volunteer attendant to later drive-up and load their great finds into the car with ease. No fretting over a distant parking spot – so Shop Away! Consignors, we’ll continue to have similar service for consignor drop-off as well.
And of course, high quality, affordable clothing and items will continue to Rule the Day(s). Two days of the best in Kid’s Thrift.
The Lowdown (Here we go…)
Thursday, September 16
Consignor Item Drop – 1pm-8pm
Friday, September 17
Early Sale for Volunteers Only – 10am-11am (volunteers may bring children to sale)
Early Sale for Consignors Only- 11:30am-12:30pm
Public Sale – 2pm-8pm
Saturday, September 18
Public Sale – 8am-Noon
Half-Price Sale – 1pm-5pm (sale closes from Noon-1pm)
Sunday, September 19th
Non-Sold Item Consignor pick-up – 8:30am-10:00am
Registering to Consign
It’s certainly not too early to register to Consign! Here is what we got for you for our SIXTH Half-Pint Resale, coming up in just nine weeks-
First, we ask that you take a minute to read through the ins and outs of consigning. Read carefully through “what to sell”. Then click, fill out the form, and with another click of the “Woohoo” Button, you’re in. From there, you’ll get an email back with your number (or a confirmation of the number you’ve used in the past if you a Half-Pint Consigning Veteran). Download and print out the tagging template and the Tagging Guidelines and you’re in business. We have been so impressed with the fair and affordable prices consignors pass onto shoppers and believe this is cornerstone to Half-Pint’s continued success. Half-Pint Resale is only as good as its consignors and we think the world of the folks who Consign with us.
Early Registration
As in the past, we’ll again be offering Early Registration incentives! Register before August 15th and….
(for new consignors) – Win a pass to wave your consignor fee and a $10 gift certificate to the sale! (2 winners!)
(for returning consignors) – Win a pass for you and one friend to enter a half-hour early into the Volunteer Sale – (1 winner!)
Partnership Opportunities
There are always ways to partner with Half-Pint! Think that you have something to share with the Half-Pint community? Let us know!
Atwood Summerfest
And don’t worry. It might be nine weeks away, but we’re still here, and out and about, taking advantage of the sun. Come see us at Atwood Summerfest!!
And as always, contact us if there is anything you need.
Happy Purging and Tagging!
Lisa Seidel and Ellen Carlson, Half-Pint Resale Organizers
Spring half-pint resale is here!
It’s coming soon!
We’re kicking things back into gear and hope that you’re planning to join us in April for the next sale!
First, get the sale on your calendar. Click here for all of the ins and outs and times and details. The sale will be held again at the Goodman Center – If you haven’t been there yet, you’ll be amazed how big (and new and beautiful) the space is. We’re thrilled that they continue to work with us to make it possible for us to take over so much of their space for so many days.
We’ll continue to offer our Loot Valet service which allows shoppers to leave their purchased items with a volunteer attendant to later drive-up and load their great finds into the car with ease. No more fretting over a distant parking spot and the idea of carrying everything you want to buy – so Shop Away! Consignors, we’ll have similar service for consignor drop-off as well.
We’ll also continue with our new faster Check Out System and will have express lanes for frugal shoppers on the fly. For those of you who are able to stick to your shopping list and walk away with a small armful of treasures, or for the shopper who is limited to a work-day break-time, the Express Lane will make your shopping experience more doable. Equal treasure finding for all!
Of course, the HIGH QUALITY of the goods being sold and the incredibly affordable prices won’t change a bit, either. As veteran thrift shoppers, we know how important this aspect is to the success of the sale. We take great pride in making sure that the items being put on the sale floor are in gently used condition. The AFFORDABLE prices, well we certainly can’t take any credit for that. We have been so impressed with the fair and affordable prices consignors pass onto shoppers and believe this is cornerstone to Half-Pint’s continued success. Half-Pint Resale is only as good as its consignors and we think the world of the folks who Consign with us.
Maternity Clothing
The biggest CHANGE to the sale, other than instituting all kinds of little things that will make your consigning and shopping experience even better, is that new to this sale, we are discontinuing the consignment of maternity clothing.
No, don’t be sad!! We’ll keep all of the essentials you can’t do without (belly bands, maternity tights, and other maternity gear and accessories, as well as nursing bras, tanks, etc.), but we no longer will have the circular racks of maternity clothing. Here is why: We found that pregnant folks came to shop for baby items and that few really spent much time shopping for Maternity. Consignors who spent a lot of time nicely hanging and tagging their maternity were walking away with smaller checks, and because we have so much fabulous baby/children items, we want to make ample space for all of the other thousands and thousands of items for sale (so look for specialized round racks at the next sale!)
For those of you who have maternity items to sell or are looking for high quality but budget conscious maternity wear, we have some Great places to recommend. These stores both have specialized areas for fabulous maternity items and are known for their selection. You can find out more on our web site in the FAQ!
consignor registration is now open!
REGISTER EARLY TO CONSIGN
Register by March 1 and you can win:
(for new consignors) – Win a pass to wave your consignor fee and a $10 gift certificate to the sale! (2 winners!)
(for returning consignors) – Win a pass for you and one friend to enter a half-hour early into the Volunteer Sale – (1 winner!)
Online Registration Forms
We are going to make registration easy for you! We again have our super fantastic
ON-LINE CONSIGNOR REGISTRATION FORMS
New Consignor Registration Form
Returning Consignor Registration Form
ALL CONSIGNORS will receive a 20% Coupon from Oompa (retail store) (which you will receive at check-in). Last sale, we used our coupon to buy some fabulous gifts for our kiddos, which will eventually end up back at Half-Pint!
Also new in the next week will be an easy-to-print tagging information sheet which we hope more clearly states how to tag and hang (when needed) your items. We’ll send out a note when it’s completed, so watch for it!
There isn’t any reason to wait! Register now, and start purging and tagging!
See you at the Sale!
Lisa Seidel and Ellen Carlson, Half-Pint Resale Organizers
Half-Pint’s New Location
GCC’s Mission
In fulfilling its mission, the Center facilitates a community atmosphere; identifies and responds to community needs; collaborates with individuals and other agencies to provide help; promotes recreational and cultural events; and creates and coordinates meeting space, programs, information and services that reflect the community’s ethnic and economic diversity.
The Goodman Community Center is a 501-C3 nonprofit organization. In keeping with our mission, we:
- Help build a sense of community among neighborhood residents
- Provide opportunities for social activities, education, social development and nourishment to at-risk children
- Provide opportunities for social activities, education, social development, and nourishment to older adults
- Provide short-term emergency food relief
- Organize and sponsor community events for education, socializing and celebration
- Organize and offer volunteer opportunities
- Help community groups organize and seek assistance from government officials, businesses and social service agencies
- Provide space for individuals and groups to meet, learn and celebrate
- Provide information about community issues, people and events
- Refer people requesting assistance to appropriate individuals and agencies