If you're got growing kids and a shrinking budget, consignment sales are a great way to outfit your kids at a fraction of retail prices.

And right now is prime shopping season for spring consignment sales in the Triangle.

Most sales offer early shopping days for volunteers and sellers, and many offer discounts in the final days of the sale. I highly recommend clicking on the links to individual sales to get sale hours, directions and discount information.

Here are a few upcoming sales and their public sale dates:

Find out all the scoop here (the Web site is now up and running ... at the time of the previous post, site wasn't yet up) before Adore Boutique opens in October selling designer samples, overstocks and resales. And if you're really anxious to get a jump on all the designer goodies, follow Adore on Twitter. (Note a recent tweet about the new Armani shipment ... Could this be one of the first area consignment shops to tweet?)

Store owner Nancy Alinovi says she plans to focus on the high-end labels and give the store a posh, glam, hip atmosphere. 

If you're getting ready to clean out your closets or need a little extra cash, Pam Mullaney has a deal for you.

Her Raleigh-based PeaceandLoveShopping online consignment boutique, which sells lightly worn designer clothes, shoes and handbags, is running a new special for consignors. Through Sept. 10, if you consign your unworn or gently used designer clothes, you'll get 75 percent of the selling price once it sells. (Normally, you would get 50 percent.) Better still, get 100 percent of the selling price and use it towards an item. Or refer a friend for consignment or purchase and get $30 towards any piece.

And if you're strapped for time? She'll even pick up your stuff for you.

(Want to know how she sells it? Read the N&O story here.)

Contact Pam at pam@peaceandloveshopping.com.

Got a few designer pieces you want to sell? A new designer clothing resale store should be opening soon in the Triangle. Adore will open next to La Farm Bakery in Preston Corners on Cary Parkway in Cary in October. Look for more info soon on the store’s Web site (under construction, but should be up and running soon).

The Upscale Resale Children's Consignment Sale is back for its spring and summer sale in Cary.

If you don't know about it, it's the place to get children's clothes and shoes used from boutiques and trunk shows, with labels such as Silly Goose, Remember Nguyen, Patsy Aiken, Kelly's Kids, Stride Rite and Just Ducky.

Everything at the sale is clean, pressed, in-season and ready to wear. The sale, which will be held at the Cary Masonic Lodge at 142 SE Maynard Road, will start March 13, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Some items will go half price March 14 from 9 a.m. to noon.

Parents looking to consign their kid's clothing can register as a consignor until Tuesday at www.UpscaleResale4Kids.com. That's also where you'll find a list of accepted labels.

For more information, go to the site or contact the organizer Toni Carpenter at upscaleresale4kids@gmail.com.

(A portion of the proceeds from the sale will go to the Ashley & Shannon Williams Education Fund. Their mom, Katy Williams, was a co-founder and business partner of the sale. She died suddenly in November. Carpenter decided to move forward with the semi-annual sale in honor of Katy, in large part because of the outpouring of support from their customers.)