Should I keep or should I sell?

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Eeek!
I found a nice sweater at the fancy thrift store where I shop with my parents for $4

I took it home and looked up the label and it is a Valerie Louthan cashmere sweater, and her stuff goes for upwards of $300 new...

yeek...now I don't know what to do with it.

I like the way it looks. it is very basic and black, but with interesting ribbed
sleeves..It is just my size....but way too nice for me.

I originally pegged it for my mom who is a cashmere-o-phile and wears all black all the time...but she said I should keep it.

On e-bay there are just a few of her things and they are priced around $100 and not selling.

I am thinking I could maybe get $50 bucks for it tops....but not sure where to look in order to sell it.

any advice?

I might just tell my mom (who might just think the actual value of the thing is an interesting novelty)...and insist she take it for the fancy gatherings she has to go to with my dad.

It's not "too nice for you"--it's a thrift store sweater you paid $4 for! You should wear it and enjoy it, your mom doesn't want it and you won't make enough money selling it to be worth the trouble.

what do you need more; warmth or money? This is known as a 'real find'. It's a good conversation piece, should you need conversation

I don't know ... could you model it for us, please?

I purchased a shirt that said "soccer camp" around my size for a dollar or so from a goodwill. Everytime someone saw it they'd say... you play soccer? And I'd say, yep... even tho I wouldn't be caught dead playing...

Wear it tho, it aught to feel nice to wear something expensive that you don't have to treat like a faberge egg

I love wearing silks and velvets from salvation army counters and sit right down in the mud!

honestly Poopy, the universe GAVE that sweater to you so you bohemian with the best of them.
I know you picked it up because it 'spoke' to you. And anyway. . you might need something nice to wear to a funeral or a wedding some day and . . .bingo! there it is

Merle

It IS a conversation piece.

to the naked eye it does not look like a couture sweater worth 100's of dollars...it really is just a sweater...
After thinking it might look good on my mom, I thought about turning it into a "sweater monster"
(I make toys)

I just am aware of the horrible things i do to clothes. I don't have a stitch that I wear regularly that is not somehow spattered with paint or screen printing ink.

I keep warm in my raggy old "found" hoody with the ghost on it, and my moth-eaten Korean war era wool army field shirt.

We are hurting for money these days (like everyone else, I guess)..trying to keep our two businesses afloat...so it might be practical for me to at least try to sell it before I decide on keeping it.

I have lots of things that might be valuable and/or collectible to someone else...I just don't want to exert the energy to sell them, especially if I won't get much money for them...and since I collect these things myself and am somewhat attached to them.

an example of this is my beloved raggedy collection...I have almost 100 raggedy ann and andy dolls...and then all mot other homemade toys...(big thing for me)

I have had some really good luck in the past though as a finder of things in thrift stores that I made a pretty penny on. One of my "Aspie" super powers is finding things.

I once bought a bag of rubber erasers for 90 cents and sold it for $70
Another time, I bought 2 Rushton dolls for $5 each and sold the pair for $700 to somebody in Japan.

Keep the sweater.

I once gave away a charcoal-grey cashmere sweater because I thought it was too "feminine" for me. Had I only realized then how much women loved the feel of it against their skin, I'd have kept it and worn it often.

I will keep it and wear it and get paint on it and not care and keep wearing it and turn my other black cashmere sweater that is all of a sudden full of holes into a sweater monster...like I had originally planned for it, before I realized how nice and warm it was as a sweater.

Fnord..I have a sweater like the one you describe that someone bartered with me for something i was wearing. It is charcoal gray cashmere and silk...banana republic.
I was either gonna turn it into a sweater monster or screen print on it.

Did you buy it for how it looks, or for how it looks given the price relative to your resources? More significantly, if you had (for example) fifty dollars, would there have been some other item you would have chosen based on what you'd want to wear?

You could keep this top if wearing it makes you more happy than (or as happy as) wearing the item of clothing you would choose if you had the money you would get if you sold the shirt.

If it was in a shop for the price you could get if you sold it and you were going to spend exactly that much money on a single item of clothing, would you be likely to choose it, or some other item (that you perhaps normally would not buy due to cost)?

^ I'm still waiting for the Poopster to model it for us.

The sweater WITHOUT the holes - I'm not a perv ... not totally, anyway ...