Secrets of Savvy Etsy Sellers

If you are an Etsy shopkeeper and want to improve your shop, then you should check out this fun blog called On The Dot Creations.  The blog author, Julie, has written some great tutorials on sprucing up your shop and has just published a free eBook entitled Secrets of Savvy Etsy Sellers. Make sure and check it out and download your own copy! - and look for yours truly, as I contributed hint #36 on page 19.  

6 pounds 4 ounces less

I struck a great deal at my local thrift shop here in Goodland, Kansas, today.   I mean it, I almost feel guilty except for one thing - I saved 6 pounds and 4 ounces of stained and ripped T-shirts from going into our local landfill.  Let me explain:

For whatever reason, people often donate things that are really not useable rather than throw them away themselves.  One day I asked LaVaughn, the thrift shop manager, if I could go through the unwearable Tees and buy them for cheap.  Well, I wasn't prepared for how cheap!  I paid $1.00 for 6 pounds and 4 ounces of 100% cotton T-shirts, thus saving them from the landfill!

You ask, what will you do with those unwearables?  I bring them home, wash them and sanitize them (using a chemical-free method the EPA recommends), and then I cut around the stains and holes and use the beautiful cotton fabric to make wrist cuff wallets.