Tagging and Sorting

Volunteer work today meant tagging and hanging up children's clothing at the thrift store. Tagging means using this Apparel Tagging Gun (below) to attach a blank white tag to each article of clothing. We do not price the clothing individually as they will be sold on racks with one set price for the items. An example is that women’s long-sleeved shirts are all sold for $6.50. No need to put $6.50 on each item. The tag is an identifier that the shirt was inspected by the thrift store before putting it up for sale.

We sort the clothes by size on the moving racks. Once full the moving racks are taken up to the store floor where the clerks add the clothing to the current inventory. I had quite a bit to sort as children’s clothing is small. I had girl's sizes 0-3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months, 18 months, 24 months, 2T, 3T, and 4T.

Twenty-four months clothes are for 18-24 months old, while 2T is for 2-3 years old children. 24 months clothes have more room for diapers, while 2T clothes have a slimmer silhouette for toilet-trained kids. Normally 24-month clothes are found in the baby department and 2T clothes in the children's department. I just learned this today when I came home and Googled the difference in sizes.

It is probably something all of the other moms in the world already know. Megan toilet-trained herself before her first birthday so we never got into some of these sizes.

Anyway, last week I also learned how to use a hand-held pricing device when we did a little bit of Christmas product pricing. See old women like me CAN learn new skills.