One Woman's Trash...

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The coming weekend is lousy with special sales. (OK, we have two, which is about two more than we usually have.) There's the Gilt City Warehouse Sale taking place in the Miami Event Space on the Upper East Side. And then, on the other side of the causeway, there's a sale of a completely different nature.

Think of The Divorceé Sale as a well-curated consignment shop, complete with a comfortable, relaxed atmosphere. This one's in a penthouse at the Delano; previous sales (held in New York and LA) have been in similarly swank environs.

"It's definitely like a girl's night out," The Divorceé Sale founder Jill Alexander says. "It's definitely a party. We're turning lemons into lemonade."

© The Divorceé SaleJill Alexander, The Divorceé Sale.While not divorced herself, Alexander saw an opportunity when she looked around and saw what other newly divorced women were going through, transitioning from their old lives and to their new ones. The Divorceé Sale helps with that by getting women across the country to open their closets in the name of charity and a fresh start.

"They're purging for financial reasons and emotional reasons," Alexander says.

As the arbiter of that, Alexander gets to relieve newly divorced women of all the stuff they no longer want (be it a Cartier watch, a Chanel clutch, or a Valentino dress) and pass it along to women who'd love a little consignment-priced luxury.

Plus, a portion of proceeds from each sale go to charity. Twenty-five percent of the proceeds from the Miami sale will go to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Because of that and more, Alexander says, The Divorceé Sale is nothing like a blood-in-the-water warehouse sale. "Because of the atmosphere, and because it's for charity, the people shopping the sale are really nice to one another. If two women want the same piece of jewelry, they're not apt to fight over it."

This is not to say you should skip the Gilt sale. Even Ms. Alexander is thinking of jumping on the causeway and popping over. "I really want to check it out," she says. "I hope I have time."

Like the Gilt sale, you'll need tickets to get into The Divorceé sale, which runs November 11-13. Tickets go on sale this morning at ten at TheDivorceéSale.com.