this week at Mother & Child

and remember... You can bring consignments on
Monday, Wednesday, Friday or Saturday, between 9AM and 6:30PM.

We are noticing that there seems to be confusion about where to leave your consignments, if you are not going to wait (or return) to take back the items that we did not accept. If you are not going to return to take back the items that we do not choose to consign, please put your name and phone number securely inside the bag or box of consignments, and place your bag or box on the Drop 'n' Run shelves.
Clarification: Drop 'n' Run items get processed for sale within 1 or 2 days after after they are left with us, just like the items accepted while you wait.

Ways that you can help us to reduce

the amount of time it takes to get your items out on the floor to sell
the length of time that you may wait for us to look through your potential consignments...
reduce confusion and clutter in the consignment area

Bring only the better-quality, stain-free, and in-style items (pls put unsellable items in one separate plastic grocery bag labeled "donate.")
Run clothing items(that can go in the washing machine) through the washer and look them over for stains, missing buttons, broken zippers, etc before you bring them to us.
Count to be sure that you do not bring more than 30 items for us to look through. (Please count at home, and please include only potentially sellable items for us to look through.)
Call ahead to be sure you are bringing items for which we have room.
Remember that the time we spend looking through unwashed, outdated, or wrong-season clothing is time that we are not able to be spending properly displaying your good, sellable consignments.
Review our "NeverBrands" list. This is a list of lower-quality brands that we have noticed do not sell well at Mother & Child. If you avoid bringing these brands you be helping to make the consignment lines move faster.
If you have 5 or 10 clothing items that you just want out of your house, but are on the neverbrands list or have small stains, you may put them in a plastic grocery bag labeled "donate" and we will give you a receipt for the donation.

We appreciate your taking the time to read all of this.

A note about donating clothing: Remember that when you donate clothing locally, you are sending them to volunteers to sort, and give to people of limited means. If you donate an item with a broken zipper, the recipient cannot afford to pay a tailor $15 or more to replace the zipper. If you donate clothing that is torn or badly stained, you are wasting precious volunteer time. If you truly want your donated items to get to the hands of local needy people, be sure they are clean and wearable, as if you would be handing them personally to a person you know who is struggling to make ends meet.
If you do not have time to sort and look over the clothing before donating it, consider placing them in a Planet Aid box. Planet aid has paid employees to sort clothing into "grades" some get sold to thrift shops, some get sold overseas, and some get recycled into rags, stuffing, etc.