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www.athenschanges.com

Hmm….I’m thinking the title “all things consignment” is not what I want.  I’ll see if I can change it to CHANGES.  After all, change is something we all do – and some of us positively LOVE changes. (me!me!me!) That’s why we named our store “CHANGES”.  

All those fabulous clothes, designer purses and shoes, furniture, and decor, are brought in because of ”changes” people make.  We change jobs, locations, weight, have babies, send a kid off to college, pick up new hobbies, ditch old hobbies, marry, divorce, remarry, go back to school, divorce, take up sky diving, go on cruises, remarry again….Whew! And all these changes mean aquiring new stuff and sometimes getting rid of old stuff. 

Kids move out? Better downsize quick before they realize what they’ve done and try to come back home! Take the stuff that won’t fit in your new condo to the consignment store. The precious time, patience, and energy wasted trying to nickel and dime it away in a yardsale, is time you could be using to flip through decorating magazines in the air-conditioned comfort of your new home. The time spent doing criminal background checks on people who saw your classified ad could be time spent checking your account balance at the consignment store.

 Lost weight? (happy…happy…joy…joy!) Need new jeans but hate the “breaking in” process.? Buying them at your favorite consignment shop means you know how they’ll fit after breaking in because they already are.  Gained weight? Sorry, but you still gotta have new clothes.  One really shouldn’t sport the same mumu to the office more than twice a week. (Depressing as it is, we must trudge our bigger-than-before butts out to buy clothes with a little more yardage in them.) The good news is you don’t have to add insult to injury by paying mall prices for a few things to get you by until you lose the weight. Again. The bonus is that you’ll find such great things that you’ll want to keep them even after the weight is off. Besides, we girls will have our “fat” days and it would be nice to have a second wardrobe just for them. I read somewhere that celebrities and other jet-setters often buy their favorites in 2 sizes for that very reason.