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Selling clothing has never been our favorite way to make money, but last year we decided to see how much we could make by concentrating on selling blue jeans. I’m not sure why we decided to do this, except that it just seemed like a good idea at the time. Anyway, we got pretty lucky and were able to gather up a nice supply of men’s. boy’s, women’s, and girl’s jeans of assorted sizes and conditions. We bought them wherever we could find them, which was mostly at moving sales, rummage sales, and garage sales, sometimes one or two at a time and other times in large lots.
The first thing you notice when you start accumulating blue jeans is how heavy they are. We started out by sorting and folding them and then packing them in big plastic storage tubs. This didn’t last too long because I just couldn’t lift one of those big tubs when it was full, and besides they took up too much room in the truck. So we switched to packing them in smaller cardboard boxes which are much easier to handle and stack.
The next thing we discovered was that blue jeans need to be displayed properly. At first I put them out on the tables in a big piles and just sat back and waited for people to buy them. I thought everyone would just root around until they found the one they wanted and then they would buy it. Most people didn’t. It seemed like they just couldn’t be bothered to look for a bargain. So the next time we set up I took the time to display all those jeans neatly folded and stacked according to size. This did work. As soon as people saw the size they needed, they bought it. We sold jeans this way for quite a while, but then the sales started to slow down. I finally realized that it wasn’t the way we were displaying them or even the price we were asking, it was simply that all the popular sizes were sold. The only ones we had left were great big sizes and little tiny sizes. Sure, every now and then we sold something, but it was a rare occurrence. So now we are stuck with boxes and boxes of off-sized jeans. I guess the lesson to be learned here is that when you buy jeans for resale make sure you get common sizes.