Guilt-free retail therapy: win a $5000 designer wardrobe

Guilt-free retail therapy offers chance to win $5000 designer wardrobe

19 September 2012

West Auckland hospice shops have been sorting and pricing a massive amount of extra clothing and second hand goods which have arrived during the Give it Up for Hospice campaign.

All kinds of interesting items have turned up including a 1950s phone, All Black Dan Carter’s left boot, antique sheet music and a pair of jeans from Petra Bagust.

Now that the New Lynn, Helensville and Te Atatu Hospice Shops are bursting with goods, the store managers are encouraging West Aucklanders to indulge in some guilt-free retail therapy.

There is a special event attached to this shopping. Until 6 October, all customers who spend $20 or more on fashion will go in the draw to win $5000 worth of brand spanking new designer clothes from Trelise Cooper.

“We’ve had wonderful donations at all our shops in West Auckland,” says New Lynn store manager Lisa Caughey. “We are bursting at the seams and now all of this extra treasure is out on the shelves waiting for buyers.”

Lisa says that people who collect special items of china or linen should make a special trip to the shops in West Auckland as they may well find great pieces for purchase at reasonable prices.

“People don’t often think that West Auckland would offer much in the way of good quality “name” china but we often have some really special pieces in store” Lisa says.

“People always tell us they love shopping at our Hospice Shop,” she says. “It’s because they know the money they spend goes directly to helping people.”

The support Hospice offers is on a clinical, emotional and spiritual level, and helps both patients and their families. “Customers also feel good that all the Hospice Shop clothes are recycled and on top of that, they get such good quality at a bargain price.”

Ms. Caughey says customers do really feel good when they indulge in retail therapy for hospice. “This is the one time when you can truly buy that gorgeous dress or those wonderful shoes and say, hand on heart, you’re shopping not just for yourself, but also for the good of others.”

The $5000 Trelise Cooper prize will be drawn 15 October and the winner advised. The prize can be redeemed either at the Trelise Cooper flagship boutique stores in Auckland or via their website.

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