About The Clothes Mine
It's been a journey.
The Clothes Mine was originally a small tourist town store. It operated in Golden, Colorado for nearly 10 years. I bought it in 2018, planning on continuing the tradition of a tiny consignment store in a bustling tourist town. In 2019, I opened the Wheat Ridge store to better handle the intake of consignment and offer more selection to locals, while hand picking certain items for the Golden "baby" store.
And then COVID changed everything.
Tourism dried up and maintaining two stores through a pandemic became - well - frightening. In June 2020 I "downsized" into the larger Wheat Ridge location and focused on getting through the pandemic on my own (but I soooo miss my staff and it broke my heart to let them go).
Fast forward a few more years, and when my lease came up for renewal in 2024, a hard look at the future made it clear that consignment wasn't going to improve, particularly with rental rates continuously rising. I decided to close my last physical location and internalize for a bit (aka recuperate and reprioritize my life).
I'm slowly rebuilding what I want the store to be - I miss the community aspect and friends I made and I think there is a missing spot there for most people around that. I'm reaching my way forward slowly and part of that is reimagining this site and then where I want to go.
WHERE TO FIND ME ... ONLINE
YouTube! - I always did a weekly video of my latest finds and I miss doing that. It was a chance to reach out to my community. I'm thinking of ways to bring that back that works.
Facebook - I do post any videos I do to Facebook. But I am not a person that is typically on the platform. So don't look too hard for me there.
Instagram - I also post on occasion to Instagram. Sometimes.
Poshmark - I have kept the closet going. Some things I find will end up on the Poshmark closet @TheClothesMine.
Email Newsletter - You can sign up for my weekly just in emails! It's the most reliable way to get the video alerts, short of subscribing to the YouTube channel. And I do promise to start chatting again.