My Seton Store Story

This week, Maggie and I spent much of our time sorting and tagging clothes, as we usually do. Luckily, we were not bombarded with clothes like we have been over the last few weeks, so we were able to tidy up a bit. Specifically, we sorted through a large pile of summer clothes by type and size to make them easier to store and put out next year. We also put together some displays on the floor to get much of the Christmas stuff out of the sorting room and make room for other items.  Boxes of summer clothes that we sorted. Having passed the mid-point of this internship, I have found that the tasks can get kind of monotonous. Even though I love the people that I work with, sorting, tagging, and putting clothes out on the floor for hours on end each week can get very repetitive. To break this up, Maggie and I do our favorite jobs: taking out the trash and emptying dehumidifiers. (We especially enjoy getting to throw away glass because we can smash them in the dumpster.)  All of the...

 This week, Maggie and I assembled a 7.5-foot-tall Christmas tree and redressed our mannequins to fit the new scene. I had so much fun getting into the Christmas spirit for a little bit (even though it is fairly early) as we decorated. I could tell that the clients were enjoying it too, as many of them complimented us on our work and offered words of encouragement. For the rest of the week, we sorted, tagged, and hung clothes. Our little mannequin family. Over break, Maggie and I discussed plans for our Seton Store pop-up shop and decided to reschedule it for later in the semester. In our initial planning stage, Maggie and I decided, along with the Seton Store’s Director of Operations, that we should have three full racks of clothing for sale. At this point, however, we have only pulled enough clothing to fill one rack. It has proven to be a bit difficult to find clothing that the majority of college students would be interested in. The majority of Seton Family Store clients and ...

Last week, Maggie and I had a lot of fun getting to dress the mannequins on the store floor. Some of the pieces of the perfect outfits that we picked out did not fit the mannequins well, so we had to improvise by using belts, rubber bands, and clothespins. We had to be careful when changing the mannequins because they were ridiculously anatomically accurate. This made the entire job funnier for us and the rest of the staff because Maggie and I had to do our best to successfully change the clothes on the mannequins without being completely obscene. Some of the mannequins we styled. This week, we have been doing our normal jewelry and clothing duties. Today, however, we got absolutely bombarded with clothing donations, so much so that we needed to enlist help from office workers from the Outreach Office. It was definitely intimidating to see how many clothes needed to be sorted and tagged. We did what we could in the short hours we were working, but it did not seem to make a dent in the ...