Open for Business!

Georgie’s Resale is open for business! Finally, after countless hours of shopping at garage sales, hauling Tahoe loads of merchandise to Georgie’s, classifying and organizing merchandise (not to mention all the other details that go into opening a resale shop), we opened our doors to the public on July 5.

A special thanks to Angeles, my cousin from Oklahoma City. She tagged clothes, cleaned, moved and organized merchandise, and helped me keep my sanity under pressure. While others were fast asleep on Friday and Saturday mornings, she got up at the crack of dawn to go with me to garage sales. Thanks, Angeles! You make the garage sale queen proud!

Georgie’s stocks books, clothes, shoes, kitchen items, knick knacks, jewelry, toys, decorations, and more. Plus, there are dressing rooms available.

We have already met some of the nicest customers and hope you keep coming back. Remember we are always re-stocking Georgie’s, and you just might find that special used or new item you’ve been looking for! If you have any requests for merchandise, feel free to comment on our blog. You can also follow us on Twitter!

Merchandise

I know many will be asking about our inventory or merchandise. Where does it come from? For starters, Georgie's will solely rely on used or almost new merchandise from garage sales. The Houston area is a garage sale haven. They seem to start on Thursdays and run through Sundays. By 6:30 AM beginning on Thursdays I, Mrs. Georgie AKA Garage Sale Queen set off to a strategic area somewhere in the Houston area and hit garage sales. Now by strategic I am not implying a secret place. True garage salers share their "secret" spots unlike fisherman who take their best fishing spot to the grave. I plan my garage sale shopping strategy around the volume of garage sales in a certain area. I determine this by the number of garage sales posted on craigslist and in the Houston Chronicle or other Houston area newspapers. Most often I usually wind up somewhere between Friendswood and League City. I have garage-saled in Alvin, Sugarland and in the Heights area of Houston. I will stick to an area in close proximity to my shop so that I can make it in time to open up at 10AM sharp. At some point, Georgies may take consignments. It will all depend on how fast the merchandise moves and obviously requests from our customers.

Looking for Retail Space

My husband and I looked at numerous locations between Pearland, TX and Friendswood, TX before deciding on retail space at the corner of FM 518 and FM 2351. My first instinct was to lease what was formerly Friendswood Resale but in the end the leasing company had other plans for the space. The restaurant next door was looking to expand and I understand you take care of current, long standing customers first. I was given other options of retail space they had available and we settled on what was once an insurance agency. Demolition will start soon and we hope to be up and running by July 1, 2009.

I'm not getting rich... just trying to get paid doing something I enjoy.

So many times throughout our lives we are often told to try and do something we love as a job or career so that it does not feel so. How many times have we all been asked, "Do you enjoy your job?"

Two of my hobbies are baking and garage sales. I have been known to bake a cake or two on request or for special occasions or for family members' birthdays. I can bake a mean cupcake too but more on that later. You have to keep reading :). The idea for GEORGIE'S RESALE began from looking within and trying to figure out how I might be able to replace my income as a legal secretary. Faced with two options, I chose to open a resale shop. All the talk about the economy, start up costs, and going green just made better sense for me to go into resale. Who knows what the future holds but I have not given up on my cupcake boutique idea just yet!