Gift guide: what to get the reseller in your life

Hi, hello. If someone you love sells clothes online, their wish list is not a mystery. It's tools. We run Time to Waste out of our house, so this is the real list, sorted by how much you want to spend.

Heads up: some of these links are affiliate links, but they're all things I have and love, or would love to have. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Stocking stuffers

• Colorful poly mailers. Self-sealing, and they spark joy on both ends of the transaction.
• A fabric shaver. Two minutes of de-pilling makes vintage look (and sell) better.
• Thank-you cards. We usually grab ours from the Goodwill bins, but a box of these works in a pinch and buyers remember them.
• A sashiko mending kit from a small Etsy shop. Visible mending turns damaged inventory into better inventory. Prettiest skill a reseller can learn.

The game-changers

• A tagging gun (plus extra barbs). We spent 8 months safety-pinning tags before this. Don't let someone you love live like that.
• A thermal label printer and a ton of labels. No ink, no taped printer paper, no crying at the post office.
• Zip-up storage totes. Clothes stay on hangers, fold in half, drop in, zip. We own about 40.
• A ring light with a phone holder and wireless mics, for the reseller who's gone live or is about to.

The splurges

• A double-rail z-rack. Twice the hang, half the floor space, breaks down for pop-ups.
• A hanging mannequin. Things photographed on a body sell better. It pays for itself.
• A garment steamer. Wrinkled doesn't sell. Steamed does.
• A Narwal Flow robot vacuum. Not a reseller essential, but if their floor is 40% thread and lint, it's a love language.

Gifts that aren't things

• A few months of Vendoo. It's our home base for crosslisting to eBay, Depop, Poshmark, Mercari and Shopify. Gifting software sounds unromantic until you watch someone get their weekends back.
• Mozi Wash, our detergent of choice for delicate vintage. That link gets first-time buyers $20 off.
• A Whatnot invite. New buyers get $25 to shop when they sign up, which is basically you giving them $25 without spending it.

Or get them something one of one

Resellers spend all day finding good stuff for everyone else. Flip it around. These are handmade here in Memphis from vintage materials, one of each, sizes right in the titles.

• Time to Waste 80s Duckster Windbreaker (L), $22.50
• Time to Waste Bleached & Glittered Sweatshirt (S), $18
• Time to Waste Pocket Tee, Blue & Thrashed (M/L), $13.50
• Military Khaki Work Shirt, 1949 (S/M), $45
• The New Old Quilt Jacket (L–XXL), $110

Want the full list of everything we run the business with? It lives in the reseller toolkit, and we keep it updated. And if your reseller deserves something that isn't a tool, the shop is right here.