After I advised my mates that I used to be going to drive to White Home to buy garments, they thought I used to be loopy.
Going to buy in Atlanta, or Chicago possibly, however the little rural group of White Home in Sumner County was not a possible vacation spot for buying.
However I’m joyful to report that there are two great consignment outlets in White Home – one promoting kids’s clothes, footwear, and tools and the opposite promoting girls attire, footwear and equipment.
Each are owned and operated by Jayme Cantu, a mom of 4 who has additionally simply purchased a girls clothes and niknaks resale store in Mt. Juliet.
First got here the kids’s store Quinnderella’s – named for her youngest little one and solely lady Quinn – which options greater than 11,000 objects on any given day.
Cantu opened it two years in the past and now has 530 consignors. She says keen buyers come repeatedly from Hendersonville, Gallatin, Nashville and past. Many of the clothes stock is priced at $5.99 or much less, with tools like strollers, cribs, breast pumps and different gear priced increased.
Cantu, 39, who was a stay-at-home mother earlier than going into enterprise, has 4 kids, ages 16, 13, 7 and 4.
“I used to be bored with shopping for new clothes and watching them develop out of it. After I began, 600 of the two,100 items got here from my closets,” she stated.
In contrast to another consignment outlets and gross sales, Cantu accepts all manufacturers of clothes. However that’s not to say she’s not choosy!
“I’m extra involved about situation and elegance. I wish to cater to all budgets,” she stated. Some buyers are model hunters and a few are deal hunters so I wish to have one thing for everybody.
“We put out a thousand items per week,” she stated, noting that a lot of her buyers are available in a number of occasions per week to see what’s new within the retailer.
Quinnderella’s Youngsters Consignment is positioned at 2408 Freeway 31 West in White Home, which is about 45 minutes from Nashville. The store is subsequent to Nature’s Market. Listed here are some particulars:
*Stock contains clothes and tools for infants by means of sizes 14-16, plus a sprinkling of small and XS grownup sizes.
*The store additionally options a number of tables of vendor objects and new reward choices like stocking stuffers that Cantu buys at market.
*Hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesday by means of Saturday.
*Cellphone: (615) 992-1947
*Fascinating coverage: Cantu encourages her staff to carry their kids to work with them. (“Mothers don’t want to decide on between work and their kids,” she stated.)
*Just a few issues to know: Consignors get a ten % low cost on their purchases. The store has a loyalty program, the place buyers get one level for each greenback spent and 100 factors equals $10 off a future buy.
*Consignors obtain 40 % and the store will get 60 % of the gross sales worth. The break up is 60/40 for big ticket objects like cribs and high-end strollers.
*The shop has a quarterly story time that’s fashionable with prospects.
Lower than a mile from the kids’s store is Cantu’s girls consignment store, Grace and Religion Women Consignment store at 3027 Freeway 31 West. It has 283 consignors.
Many, like Jessica Kozma, are each consignors and buyers.
“This has been a lifesaver for me,” she stated, as she bought a sweater and another objects on a latest journey.
She stated she drives to White Home from her house in Hendersonville to buy on the kids’s consignment store about two occasions per week (searching for objects for her kids, 8 and three), and the women store (for herself) as soon as per week.
Consignors (the consignment slots for fall/winter are full) obtain 40 % and the store will get 60 % of the gross sales worth. As soon as the store units the worth, it drops by 20 % each month.
Like Quinnderella’s, Grace and Religion consignors get a ten % low cost on their purchases. The store has a loyalty program, the place buyers get one level for each greenback spent and 100 factors equals $10 off a future buy.
*Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday by means of Saturday
*Contact: Grace and Religion Women Consignment on Fb or name (615) 334-6145.
Cantu just lately bought girls resale retailer Sugar Pea Style Change (3590 N. Mt. Juliet Rd.) from April Murphy, who owned and operated it for the final 12 months.
The shop, which has been in enterprise in Mt. Juliet for 14 years, was initially a consignment boutique however Murphy modified over to a resale retailer the place sellers may get money on the spot for his or her garments, footwear, purses and equipment.
Cantu says she is listening to prospects about which strategy they like finest and can resolve on the perfect plan subsequent month.
“I’ll proceed listening to the shoppers and mix their concepts with a number of of my very own and make it a one-stop vacation spot for Mt. Juliet girls regardless of the stage of life they’re in,” she stated.
*Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday by means of Saturday
*Contact: (615) 553- 4627 or sugarpeafashionexchange@gmail.com or comply with thesugarpea on Fb
Mary Hance, who has 4 a long time of journalism expertise within the Nashville space, writes a weekly Ms. Low-cost column. She additionally seems on Thursdays on Discuss of the City on NewsChannel5. Attain her at mscheap@mainstreetmediatn.com and comply with her on Fb as Fb.com/mscheap
