Wholesale 101

If you love buying Liquidations and Store Returns, chances are you will eventually end up with a pair of jeans that you just can’t sell due to damage; maybe the zipper is broke, an awful stain you can't get out or there’s a gaping hole. Instead of throwing them in the trash, here’s great ideas to consider! I put these ideas in order, based on the part of the jean used. Let’s get started:  JEAN SEAMSREPURPOSING: This is super friggin coo! PillarBoxBlue has this incredible idea: S …

If you absolutely love buying Store Returns, Liquidations and Salvage chances are you have come across an imperfect pair of sunglasses. No need to throw them out or sell them for little! Today I am going to give you options for repairing damaged sunglass arms and more! For fixing an Arm, Amazon has been a Godsend! For $6 - $9 you can buy a complete kit that includes over 1,000 different sunglass arm replacement pins (most include more)! Most of the kits also include the mini scre …

This week we have discussed What to Do with Broken Earrings and Ideas for Upcycling Damaged Necklaces, but today I wanted to show you just a couple things I personally made using damaged jewelry.  Here's some super quick videos of a couple of my projects: If you liked that table, here's a few more that utilize scrap pieces (mirror tiles, ribbon, jewelry, etc) these pics are super old, so the photo quality kind of sucks. Sorry!: This is the Flamingo on top of …

Should you throw away the damaged necklace? Or can you Fix it? Or, can you Upcycle it into big profit? Let’s find out! Necklaces are a good damaged item to have because there’s lots of options as opposed to something like a broken ceramic pot, which leaves you with very few options. Let’s look at the parts of a necklace: Now let’s discuss what you can do, depending on what is damaged: CAN IT BE FIXED? DAMAGED CLASPS If the clasp just needs replacement, this is super simple. Y …

If you buy Liquidations, Store Returns of Salvage it is not uncommon to occasionally get pieces of inventory that are too damaged to sell. In previous articles we discussed How to Write Off Damaged Inventory on Your Tax Returns as well as Ideas for Repurposing Totally Damaged Clothing. So today we are going to give you more “Upcycling” ideas - take that damaged merch and turn it into something awesome!It always sucks to get damaged stuff, but ruined jeans can be a huge downer, especi …