Supplies needed: hangers (wire only for Elizabethtown sale), safety pins, zipties, packing tape, ziploc bags, masking tape, 60-67# white or light pastel cardstock paper

Elizabethtown sellers will need to use wire hangers only.  Murray sellers, this requirement will likely come to Murray in 2013, so start hanging on to wire hangers!  For now, plastic hangers from stores are acceptable at the Murray sale but the pant-only hangers (with metal or plastic clips to hold pants) will not be allowed, even if the pants are tied or pinned over the clips.  Garments always fall off these hangers and it is hard to sell items that are on the floor!  If you use child-sized hangers, please make sure your item will not fall off.  We do not remove clothing from hangers at check-out, so get cheap ones or ask your dry cleaner for some.

Safety pins can be bought at discount stores, fabric stores or in bulk from craft stores online. They will hold your clothes on the hanger and tags on the clothes. Please use the one inch or larger size. Do not use clothes pins to hold your items on the hanger, they won’t stay on. Do not use staples to attach your tags to clothing, they won’t come off. You may use a garment tagging gun to attach tags but it is not required. Do not use any straight pins – OUCH!

Zipties can be used to keep shoes together or attach other accessories or small pieces.

Ziploc bags are perfect for shoes, accessories, toys, and groups of books. Remember to tape them shut with the tag on the outside. The very large ziploc bags or zippered bedding bags can hold bedding sets or multi-part toys if you no longer have the original packaging.

Use packing tape to secure attach all parts to toys and tags to non-clothing items. Please do not tape tags on soft items like stuffed animals or bedding – they won’t stay on. Do not tape over the barcodes on your tags.  Use a small piece of packing tape to cover the safety pin attaching your tag to clothing items, this will help ensure tags stay on while shoppers are busy going through the clothes racks.

Add a small piece of masking tape with your seller number to any item at risk of losing its tag.  We suggest putting this on clothing near the label, inside each shoe, on bedding items, on each part of toys with multiple parts, etc.  It will help us retag items that happen to lose their tag during the sale.

You MUST print tags on CARDSTOCK  paper. Plain paper tags won’t hold up to all the handling they’ll receive. You can find 60, 65, or 67# cardstock at discount stores or office supply stores. Heavier cardstock will soak up too much ink from your printer and could cause the barcodes not to scan at checkout. Dark colors won’t scan either, so use white or very light pastel.