Corri McFadden On House Of Consignment Episode 9: Warehouse Sales And Ta Ta’s Closet

2012-04-25 | Elizabeth Black

Each week during the season on House of Consignment, we’ll be talking to eDrop Off owner and woman whose wardrobe we covet, Corri McFadden, about her take on every episode. This week, Corri and her crew held a charity warehouse sale that ended up being a bigger project than they expected.

Episode nine featured the warehouse sale for charity, I wish this episode was longer because I could have watched this forever, it was so fun to see how fast-paced that day was.

I know, that episode needed to be like three hours. Actually, it could have been forty-five minutes long because that’s how long it took to sell out.

How did that even come to be?

We get a lot of items that either didn’t sell or people say “Just donate it for me,” and we started getting a lot. So I got a warehouse and we would just box it all up with the intention of doing some kind of sale, but we didn’t know what. I had been saving all these items for a year, and when the show came about, I thought it was perfect. We’ll pull it all out, we’ll do a charity sale, and my boyfriend had just built the Greek Hellenic Museum, it hadn’t even opened yet when we had the sale, and it was the perfect venue for it. I wanted to do a bag sale because I didn’t want people shopping for items, I just wanted the stuff gone and we just wanted to raise money for charity. There were 15,000-plus pieces and I was like, what are we going to do with all the leftovers after the sale? The last thing I want to do is box it all up again and move it back into storage. At the end, there was one single glove left on a table at the end. We did a morning news piece the day before the sale and they showed off what we had, Armani, Chanel, just things that didn’t sell, and the next owning I got a call from the police at about 7:30 to tell me I had a line over the freeway. Thousands of people. [For more pics of the event, check out the gallery below!]