Got loadsa garms you want to flog but can’t be arsed with the absolute hoo-ha of selling on eBay?
Fancy browsing through the equivalent of the coolest charity shop in the world, minus the piss-stained old man pants and musty smell o’ moth balls? Read on…
What: The WIWT Humble Sale, a stylish spin on the jumble sale, raising moolah for The British Heart Foundation
When: Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd April 2012
Where: Space Fifty Four, 54 Rivington Street, EC2
Getting there: Shoreditch tube
The clever folk over at WIWT (see our interview with founder Poppy here) are hosting a ‘humble sale’ next weekend. That’s right. You heard, a HUMBLE sale. So-called because it’ll be just like a proper jumble sale where you can have a reet good rummage, but it’ll consist of clool clothes (from WIWT members) in aid of charidee – The British Heart Foundation, to be exact.
Like us, the WIWTers have given up on stupid eBay. The hassle of photographing your shizzle. Then posting it (and losing hours of your life at the Post Office, trying not to murder the crafty old codgers that shuffle in front of you in the queue LIKE YOU’VE NOTHING BETTER TO DO AND WANT TO STAND THERE ALL DAY WHILE THEY DRAW OUT THEIR PENSION).
Then having to have to send approx 4985495840986495869 emails to the irate (and frankly ungrateful) buyer because you sent the item out one second late even though they’ve paid a pittance on a Very Expensive Thing / they didn’t mean to press the ‘bid now’ button or they want their money back and think your one-(wo)man selling operation should be on a par with the likes of ASOS. UGH.
However, if you’re like me, the result means a hardened hoarder’s house worth of bin-liners stuffed full of pretty good garms that I’d give to a charity shop but actually would also quite like to get a couple of bob for – if only to ease the now irreversible buyer’s remorse ever so slightly.
For that reason, Le Blow’s Amy and I will be setting up our stylish stall next Sunday and selling our wares. Our collective wardrobes are *ahem* fairly extensive (I’m actually using my car for extra storage space at the moment; next step will be using the redundant oven space in my kitchen for shoes a la SATC‘s Carrie…) and it’s time to clear out and clean up. Well, make a couple of pence, at least – and have MEGA FUN in the process.
We rather fancy ourselves as a super slick dream telling, yelling “buy, BUY! sell, SELL!” and making millions in an The Apprentice style triumph… but no doubt we’ll be more Del Boy and Rodney. Or… Beehive and Butthead, battering backwards. Hmph.
Stay tuned for a preview post later this week for a taster of the sort of sartorial delights you can expect from us, but in the meantime, if you want to be a fellow seller, you can register for a tenner here.
If you want to bob along and shop it like it’s hot, buy an advance ticket here. You can also just turn up on the day by donating a minimum of £2 to The British Heart Foundation on the door, you tight bastards.
Find out more on the WIWT website and follow the fun on Twitter here: #humblesale
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