Shop Resale and Save Without Sacrificing

Yes, stores are doing everything they can to keep you shopping and paying full price for their items. They are offering exclusive items, offering limited amounts, creating specialty lines, and even recycling styles from the past. One way to get top styles without being a chump who paid full price for them is to shop resale.

Reasons to shop resale:

1. Cheaper price for quality goods

   1. Ultimately the resellers want to sell you what they find and want it to be quality. They want to get it in your hands and its a win-win-win when it happens; its saves you money, helps the reseller, and helps the planet.

2. Ability to resell item purchases again and continue the recycling process

   1. Take care of your stuff to resell again! This is part of the process, the better you take care of your stuff the better value you get from it, adn the longer it lasts without needing to be completely replaced. 

3. Supports small businesses and side giggers

   1. Poshmark and other platforms allow people to get money for their niche items as opposed to just donating them to a large store to make more money. This helps the cycle and helps smaller entities grow.

4. Reduces carbon footprint on planet

   1. Reusing helps reduce the demand and allows products to continue to be in use before replacement.

5. Can find more unique pieces; timeless styles not on market!

Producing new goods that have one time use or are poor quality have repercussions for the environment.  Often when we buy something that is not the one we want or it’s just for something real quick, we tend to get rid of it real quickly. Some people can afford everything new, while many cannot. If you are one of the majority that cannot buy everything new, but still wants nice quality items at an affordable price; one solution is shopping resale.

Poshmark.com is a great website to locate quality used clothing. There are several other resell websites like Dpop, and even Facebook Marketplace; however Poshmark is one of the original resale platforms for clothing. While some of the “poshers” sell new goods they found at a discount or as partners with a company brand, many poshers focus specifically on reselling treasures they find at garage sales or thrift stores.  They look for a certain quality and they do it to keep it from ending up in a landfill, or essentially being wasted value. Because these poshers do such good work searching for these items before they end up getting damaged or unusable, they keep a lot of useful items out of the landfill. 

At the same time, they can resell any good item they find to someone at a discount. This creates a sort of renewable cycle affording opportunity to lower income individuals while helping the planet and future generations. It’s a win-win for everyone. People often have reservations about buying used goods, they always want new. Poshmark is a happy middle for people with that mindset as it is kind of a bridge to the used goods market and each seller has a standard to uphold. They do not want to sell you something that is not up to their standard, and most clothing is in very good condition. 

The Get Up Collective is a used goods seller, she specifically goes to Goodwill, Savers, and other thrift stores; searching for good quality used clothing to keep it out of the landfill and provide to you at a bargain. I recommend this seller and have purchased a few shirts from her with no issues. If you haven’t looked at Poshmark.com, I’d recommend taking a look at some high quality used good resellers, such as The Get Up Collective, to start to acquaint yourself with the savings opportunity for your wallet and the environmental good you can do for the planet. It’s another small thing you can do that is a win-win for everyone.