1 month mark for kids\' consignment store

Tag : Kids' Costumes

YELLOW SPRINGS — Mothers and children mingle amid costumes,clothes, playthings and local wares at a new consignment store inYellow Springs.
Pass it on Kids, of 136 Dayton St., opened in June. Forty communitymembers contribute clothes, toys and books to sell, said storemanager Amy Risteff, and receive 40 percent of the sale price incash or store credit.
"I've always loved the idea of reusing and recycling clothes," saidowner and mother of two boys- Miri Nasoff. "There's something aboutseeing life again in something that was sitting in a box."
With high gas prices, "families have to cut corners somewhere,"Risteff said, Thursday, July 17, adding that buying used clothes isan easy price cut.
The store also supports video game and DVD trading clubs, whereyouths swap video games and DVDs instead of buying new products.The exchange encourages local interaction, Nasoff said.
A tree house curtain with a kids' sized door made by a local artistseparates the dressing room from the store, and a blue forest muralpainted by another local artist stretches over one wall.
Employees' kids and customers' kids play while their moms chat,Risteff said, adding that employees are free to bring their kids towork.
"(With our store), we're in a partnership with everyone else in thecommunity," Nasoff said. "This is helping us be aware of what wealready have. It's about saving what we've got so our kids willhave something in the future."
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