For simplicity gather all of your tagging supplies along with your items to be priced into one area. You will need:

• Enough cardstock copies of your tag template for the number of items you plan to sell
• Scissors or better yet a paper cutter to cut tags apart
• Child sized hangers for clothing up to size 4. Adult hangers are fine for sizes 5 and up.
• Safety pins (for securing pants to hangers, etc.)
• Cable/electrical ties (available in electrical dept. of Home Depot, Lowes and Wal-Mart) to secure tags to clothing. Note: Cable ties are mandatory - no safety pins except when impossible to cable tie!!! Ties are cheaper, easier to use and prevent tag removal. See below for details on how to use.
• Red, black and/or green pens
• Hole punch
• Ziploc bags (assorted sizes) for toys, socks, etc...
• Packing tape for attaching tags to toys, etc.
• Masking or painters tape for attaching tags to books and game/puzzle boxes (prevents tearing)
• Long cable ties for hanging shoes together.
• Rubber bands for grouping all same-size, same-gender items after pricing

Recommended step-by-step procedure for tagging LOTS of clothes:

• A fresh laundering and ironing will help sell your item. Place all garments on hangers with hook opening to the garment's right. As you face the item, the hook will look like a question mark. Please snap all snaps and button all buttons to ensure they are all accounted for and that the item will display well.
• Pin pants to the TOP of hangers unless you are using special pant hangers. Do not fold pants over hangers. Pants pinned to the tops of hangers don't slide and fold up.
• Pin sets securely together with pants hung on the backside of the shirt facing backwards pinned at the waist to the top of the hanger. Both pieces can be viewed fully without unpinning or raising the shirt, with the pants facing the opposite direction of the shirt. Pants hung on a separate hanger tend to fall off the hanger and get separated from the shirt. Be sure both items of your set are the same size, otherwise please sell separately! See directions for pricing sets in the Pricing section to follow.
• ALL clothing (except undergarments including "Onesie" undershirts) must be on hangers. Sleepers, pj's, snap-crotch shirts, etc. will not sell in bags! Undergarments are the ONLY clothing items that are to be in clear Ziploc bags!
• Separate all clothing into piles by size to expedite tagging. This way, when you're working on pile of 6's for example, you don't have to keep stopping to search for the size on the garment.
• Fill out tags with all required information.
• Attach tags to garments as you complete them.
• Hang all Snuglis, Bjorn Carriers, Slings and Head Supports on pant hangers
• Shoes should be joined with extra-long cable ties so that they display well at the sale. Add one to two cable ties through the one joining the shoes so that the tie will be long enough to hang the shoes neatly on our shoe rack. Please no Ziploc bags! Shoes in Ziploc bags or tight/short cable ties do not hang well and display well! Shoes must be clean and like-new with no scuffed toes!
• PLEASE be sure your items are marked with a PRICE!!! Customers typically pass over unmarked items, rather than ask.
• Safety pins are no longer accepted unless it is impossible to attach tags with cable ties. If an item is in a Ziploc, please attach the price tag to the item, not the Ziploc, as they may become separated.

If you do NOT wish your items to be discounted, fill out tag info and price in RED INK. If you would like to have your remaining items reduced to 50% for the last two days, use GREEN INK.

If you would like to try to sell ALL, price in BLACK INK. Your remaining items will be reduced to 50% on the second to last day and then to 75% off on the final day of the sale.

We strongly encourage pricing items in black or green ink. Approximately 1/3 to 1/2 of our entire inventory sells during the preview sales to volunteers and consignors! At least another half of what remains sells on the first public sale day! Unless an item is overpriced, most of our shoppers DO NOT WAIT for items to be discounted, but snap them up on sight! At a sale like ours, bargains do not last long! If an item is worth having and is fairly priced, it will almost always sell at full price. By pricing in black or green, you are ensuring that the highest possible percentage of your items sells! Most of our veteran consignors allow their items to be discounted, make a ton of money and sell 90% of what they bring! See "Pricing" for more tips.

On the tag bottom appears your pre-printed consignor ID number and barcode just above the logo.

• Please use WHITE CARDSTOCK to tag any items that you wish to donate if they do not sell! This helps tremendously in reducing our sorting time but most importantly blesses needy children. Please consider donating! Do you REALLY want to get your items back? See "Donating Unsold Items" for more info on who gets donated items.
• In the upper right corner, write the single, largest numerical size, e.g. 12-18m = 18m.
• Do NOT use S, M, or L as this means absolutely nothing from one brand to the next!
• If you KNOW an item fits weird, a 2T fits exactly like all your other 18m items for instance, label item "fits like 18m" and place it with the other 18m items. Be careful you're not biased by the size of your child, but by comparable items of clothing!
• In the center of the tag write the price in whole dollar increments. If items are worth less than $1, combine like items to price group at a minimum of $1 (onesies, socks, books, etc.) Do not get creative and add decimal places to the tags. They have been printed with ".00" on purpose!
• In the spaces provided write a description of the items including brand, color, and number of pieces if the item has MORE than 1 piece. We suggest you use the description space to "sell" your item. Be sure to point out if it's a name-brand label, if it's new and has the original sales tags attached or other important information such as the current retail price if it is a big-ticket item. Tags DO fall off no matter how careful you are. We make every effort to match tags back to items so that they can sell! We absolutely cannot do this with descriptions like "shirt" or "toy." The more specific you are the better! Clear descriptions also increase the security of items!

Double check items for price and code!

Attaching tags
When tags become separated from items, everyone loses! We will not sell items without tags because the consignor cannot be properly credited. We refuse to pocket your money! PLEASE help us to sell as many of your items as possible by making every effort to make sure those suckers stay put!

Clothing Items
Cable ties work best for almost all clothing items and some other miscellaneous items like Snuglis and diaper bags. Once a cable tie is fastened properly, it cannot come open.

Simply punch a hole in each tag in the designated spot, slip the cable tie through the hole and loop it through garment label, button hole, belt loop, etc. Make certain to zip the cable tie correctly so that it cannot slide open! Check that you didn't insert it through the zipper backwards!

If there is no secure place on the garment through which to loop a cable tie, use a safety pin through your hole punch and position tag on the garment's upper left, i.e. "over the heart". Do NOT attach tags to hangers, but directly to garments!

Shoes
Shoes should be secured together with extra-long cable ties. Do not seal them in plastic bags unless you cannot find a way to secure the pair. Tags can usually be attached with cable ties or safety pins through a grommet, buckle hole, etc... If necessary, put them in a Ziploc bag, seal the bag with packing tape and tape tag to bag. Make sure descriptions are detailed. Please do not put a price tag on each shoe, only one tag per pair.

Toys and Equipment

• Packing tape is usually ideal for these items. Toys get played with! Secure pieces carefully! We cannot be responsible if your toy parts get separated. If there are multiple pieces being sold together, secure them well.
• Batteries MUST be included with all battery-operated items. NOTE: Consignors bringing items requiring batteries without working batteries will be charged $1 for each battery that Kids EveryWear installs in the item in order to sell it. Deductions will be made from consignor checks. Because .Kids EveryWear is committed to customer satisfaction, we reserve the right to pull any items of questionable condition from the sales floor.
• Cribs, swings, and pack 'n plays MUST be set up by you! We have a 100% selling record for all assembled cribs!

Multiple Piece Items and Clothing Sets
On all multiple piece clothing items and on large multiple piece items (i.e. crib and changing table set or car seat with 2 bases) write "1 of 2" and "2 of 2" with descriptions on each piece, but ONLY put a price on the tag on the most visible part of the set!!! DO NOT put a price on both tags, only on the tag marked piece 1 of 1!!! On the 2nd tag, write “See price on tag 1” INSTEAD of a price to alert customers and our detaggers to the other tag and price of the combined set.

Socks, Undergarments, Receiving Blankets, etc.
Put in Ziplocs and seal with clear packing tape. Tape tag with detailed description on bags. Group like items of same size together so that they can be priced at a $1 minimum.