In addition to a home office, we rent a 200 sq. ft. storage space at $269.95/mo.

Our significant assets are inventory (donated fatigues, washed fatigues, deconstructed fatigues, and products ready for sale), IP, website and website domain, applicable software, shipping supplies, commercial fabric, notions, booth equipment for craft shows, supplier contacts, and more.

Our primary market is military family members and friends. We are not aware of business competition other than a few commercial military websites that include a “shop” section. Etsy and Pinterest show a few military-themed products primarily made by individual seamstresses.

At this point, we are under-represented on social media and light on other marketing strategies. We have sold online and at craft festivals. We have also accepted custom orders, for example, some customers want us to use personal items with their own name tapes. (See photo of Swartz Navy Day Pack.)

In addition to fatigues, the mail brings us other previously used pieces (e.g., hats, bags, boots, and jumpsuits). We see value in the extras but don’t have the bandwidth to manage them. This would be an extra revenue source for the new owner.

We work with local veterans at the Veterans Community Project (VCP). We take our donated and washed fatigues to their location. Anyone living at VCP can share their time deconstructing fatigues. We pay the veterans for their time.

Veterans are at the heart of our company. We are grateful for their service, their fatigue donations, and their ongoing support.

We avoid throwing anything into the landfill. We harvest as much as possible from the fatigues we deconstruct including buttons, Velcro, blousing ribbons, and anything we can reuse or pass along to other recycling organizing groups. (For example: Scraps KC.)

If local to Kansas City, MO area, we offer 2 - 3 months of support and training at no more than 10 hrs./wk. If non-local, we can use a video chat product like Zoom.

We want this transfer to be as efficient and pleasant as possible. We’ll do what we can to make that happen.

Our mission is to honor the men and women who serve our country by recycling their fatigues.

We feel a commitment to those who have donated their fatigues. To continue that commitment, new owners are needed.

Celebrate Fatigues has gotten too large for us and our home. The desire to find a gratifying way to dispose of fatigues is much larger than imagined.

The need to recycle and repurpose is growing and has become more than we can handle. Each week we have received between 20 and 65 donated fatigues.

And lastly, we’re no longer able to meet the physical demands to move gear, tubs, bags, and boxes of fatigues. We are ages: 77 & 83. We truly want to pass the company along to someone who wants to support our active military and veterans and to adopt our mission to recycle, remember, and honor.