Sunday, March 4, 2012

CONSIGNMENT SALE LETS parents DRESS kids FOR LESS.(Life - Family)

Byline: SHANNON FROMMA Staff writer

Cathy Wood sorts through racks of familiar dresses, tops and pants, pinning price tags on the left side of each piece in particular fashion. Beside the two nearly 10-foot clothing racks is another pile of kids clothes waiting to be ironed, hung on wire hangers and tagged.

Her four little girls whiz by her feet as she takes a mental inventory of their outgrown clothes and toys stashed, for now, in her garage. She pulls out two purple floral dresses that each of her daughters once wore.

"Look how cute," she says with a smile before filing them back on the rack. The dresses will be worn again before long. They are two of the tens of thousands of items being sold at the Pass It On Children's Consignment Sale that Wood is running Wednesday through April 22 at Algonquin Middle School in Averill Park.

The biannual sale beckons more than 200 consignors and several hundred bargain shoppers. The sale will be the area's seventh. With the help of her family, Wood coordinates the …

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