Twenty-five years is a long run for any small retail shop, and New to You Consignment in Inman, South Carolina has spent that quarter-century building a reputation around a simple promise: everything under the sun, sold secondhand at a fraction of retail. The shop occupies a storefront at 39 North Main Street, inside the former Stewart-Guinn Building in the heart of downtown Inman, a small Spartanburg County town nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains along the I-26 corridor between Spartanburg and Landrum. That two-and-a-half-decade history in the same small downtown has made the shop a familiar stop for area residents who know to check in regularly rather than wait for a single big haul.
The inventory lives up to the everything under the sun tagline in a way many consignment shops do not attempt. Clothing and shoes share floor space with electronics, books, toys, and baby items, while furniture, household goods, tools, lawn equipment, and garden supplies round out the practical side of the store. Craft supplies, antiques, and collectibles fill in the rest, making New to You less a boutique with a narrow focus and more a full-spectrum consignment marketplace where a shopper could plausibly furnish a room, outfit a child, stock a toolshed, and find a vintage collectible in the same visit. That breadth is part of what has kept the shop relevant across twenty-five years of changing retail trends, since it never depended on a single category staying popular.
New to You runs on a straightforward schedule, open Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday, a rhythm that fits a small downtown where foot traffic builds through the work week and peaks on Saturday. The shop also runs seasonal sales, including a spring reopening each March, and keeps regular customers in the loop through a text alert system, letting shoppers text a simple keyword to a shortcode to get sale dates and updates without having to check social media constantly. For a small-town consignment shop, that kind of direct communication with a loyal customer base is a notable operational touch, one that larger or newer resale shops often skip.
As a consignment business, New to You also serves the sell side of the equation for Inman-area residents looking to clear out closets, garages, or storage units. The shop maintains a registration process for both new and returning consignors, an established system that reflects two and a half decades of refining how items move from a seller’s home onto the sales floor and into a buyer’s hands. That long operating history gives the shop a level of community trust that is hard for a newer resale operation to match, particularly in a small town where reputation travels by word of mouth as much as by advertising.
Anyone in the Inman, Landrum, or greater Spartanburg County area looking to buy or consign clothing, furniture, tools, toys, or collectibles has a longstanding local option in New to You Consignment, reachable at 864-599-8024 or by email for questions about current inventory or consigning. In short, New to You Consignment is a 25-year-old downtown Inman consignment shop offering an unusually broad range of secondhand goods, from clothing and furniture to tools and collectibles, all under one small-town roof.
