Children’s Museum of NH hosts Kids’ Clothing and Gear Consignment Sale

The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire is hosting a major Consignment Sale of children’s clothing and gear on March 31 and April 1, 2012. This sale will offer gently used, good quality children’s clothes, baby clothes and gear, footwear, costumes, toys, nursery furniture and décor, sports equipment, books, music, and videos at outstanding prices. Maternity wear will also be available. People who consign items will earn 60% of the revenue from their sold items. The remaining net proceeds will benefit the Children’s Museum of NH and its vital education and outreach programs.

The sale will be open to the public at the Museum’s 6 Washington Street location on Saturday, March 31 from 12 noon – 7 pm and on Sunday, September 11 from 12 noon – 5 pm. Sunday will be a half-price sale on many items. There will also be a private pre-sale event on Saturday morning from 9 am - noon for people who consign 25 items or more, or who register to volunteer at the sale.

“We got such a great response to our first consignment sale last fall, we decided to make it a semi-annual event,” said Justine Roberts, Executive Director of the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire. “We love it because consignment sales not only help families recoup some of the money they’ve spent on kids’ clothes and accessories, but they also help other families in the community, promote recycling and provide support for our museum, which serves the entire region.”

The Children’s Museum’s consignment sale makes use of technology to streamline the process of consigning items, scheduling volunteers and automating sales. “People interested in consigning can go to our website and click through to a page where they can log in all the items they want to sell,” Roberts explained. “When all of their items are entered, the program will print out a page of bar-coded tags that can be cut out and attached to each item before being dropped off for the sale. Clothing will all be organized by size to make shopping easier, and the tags clearly state the brand and price of each item. We use hand-held bar-code scanners for easy check-out, then consignors can log in and see which of their items sold and how much money they have earned. Volunteers can also sign up right at our website.”

At the conclusion of the sale, consignors may pick up their unsold items or sign-off to have the Children’s Museum donate unsold items to local charities.

For more information about the Consignment Sale, please click on the Consignment Sale link on the museum’s homepage at www.childrens-museum.org.