About Duck Duck Goose

💛 A mom-powered idea

Cindy Brantley, a soft-spoken mother of three, has been the driving force behind Duck Duck Goose, one of the country's first children's consignment sales businesses. Last year, Duck Duck Goose helped over 3,000 families consign more than 450,000 items across ten Central Arkansas sales events. Our original vision, empowering moms to make extra money while helping them dress their children in fashionable, affordable clothing, remains our guiding principle today.

The sale happens twice a year as the seasons change, for spring/summer and fall/winter, in four locations across Central Arkansas. Each season, thousands of Arkansas shoppers go on the ultimate bargain hunt at our sales, and many families count on Duck Duck Goose to help stretch the family clothing budget. We're well known for an outstanding selection of quality children's, women's, and maternity clothing and shoes, plus toys, strollers, bedding, equipment, home décor, and more.

🏡 How it all began

It started out much smaller, of course. In 1993, Cindy held a garage sale with ten friends; it did so well that she kept holding sales from the family's home in west Little Rock. By 1996 the sales had grown so large that they were taking over the house, and Cindy's husband, Randy, stepped in - using his experience as an events planner to find and rent venues for the sales. The sale has been a moving event ever since, with Randy right in the middle of it.

Cindy loves to reflect on how much things have changed: "Back in the day I had to do all the accounting with an adding machine, and it would take a few weeks to settle everything and get the checks out. Now, we use barcodes and scanners and can start issuing checks the day the sale ends." Cindy long ago decided to be a mother first and to keep Duck Duck Goose an Arkansas-only company, serving Central Arkansas with events in Little Rock, North Little Rock, Conway, Pine Bluff, Benton, and Hot Springs. Duck Duck Goose typically hosts ten events per year, including two seasonal mega-sales in Little Rock at the state fairgrounds Hall of Industry.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 The family behind the flock

Randy and Cindy met while they were both on staff at Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Randy in the church's college ministry, Cindy in the administrative office. After they married, Randy joined the Arkansas Baptist Convention, where he worked for 20 years as a youth ministry consultant for camps, conferences, and special events. The couple lived in Jonesboro for five years before moving to Little Rock in 1989, where they started their family. Eldest daughter Kristen now works with them in the business; she and middle daughter Katie Beth, a cosmetologist, are both married. Son Houston is also married and is a member of the Army National Guard, currently deployed to Africa. Cindy laughs, "Houston is how I keep track of how long we've been in business. He was 3 months old when we had that first garage sale."

♻️ Waste not, want not

Cindy and Randy stress that the basis of their business is preventing waste. Through our events, goods that are still useful find a new home with people who can use them, while consignors earn some money for items they no longer need. At the end of every sale, items that remain unsold and unclaimed by consignors are donated to Big Brothers/Big Sisters to help local families. "It's a win-win for everyone involved, and it keeps items that are still useful out of the landfill."