Church Yard Sale This Saturday, October 3rd

Yard Sale – October 3
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Saturday is our yard sale! We’re counting on a successful sale to help balance the Church’s 2009 budget. We need stuff to sell and volunteers to help!

Donations: Clean out your attic and garage! Make room in your closets and cupboards! If it’s useful, bring it in! We cannot accept items that would cost money for disposal (old TVs, computer monitors, mattresses, etc) but almost anything else can go into the sale. You can drop things off Sunday, September 27, or from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Thursday October 1 and Friday Oct 2. ITEMS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED ON THE DAY OF THE YARD SALE, OCT 3rd.

Clothing Tools
Dishes and glasses Kitchen utensils
Lamps Sports equipment
DVDs and CDs Books
Smaller Furniture Vases
Picnic Tables Lawn furniture
Toys Bicycles
Radios CD players
Knicknacks Garden things
And anything else that could be useful!

Please make sure your item is clean, in working order, and please place a price tag on it with your suggested price. We’re going to sort and mark everything and welcome your suggestions!

Consignments: Do you have some things that are more valuable than the usual yard sale offerings, that you’d like to sell and make a little money for yourself as well as the Church? Bring them, marked with a price (and a reserve price in case we need to bargain). We’ll put on a special label, sell them for you, and return to you 80% of the proceeds. BUT we need you to plan to stop by after Church on October 4 and retrieve anything that did not sell.

Rent a Table: Do you want to sell your own stuff? Or sell crafts? For a $25 contribution to the Church, we’ll give you a table. You keep all your proceeds.

And Please Volunteer!


Set Up and Marking. This will be Thursday, October 1, and Friday, October 2, in Unity Hall, from 5:00 until 8:00 or so. We need to help unload cars, set up tables, sort and organize stuff, and price and mark it. Come an hour or the entire evening!

Selling. We need cashiers, runners, and helpers from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 3. Actually, we need the first shift to show up at 8:00 a.m. to open up and to deal with the inevitable early birds who come to yard sales. We’d like you to commit for 2-hour shifts – but you can stay longer if you want! We really want to have 3-4 people available at all times.

And then on Sunday, October 4, there will be a “make me an offer” opportunity to sell anything that’s left over. We need a couple of people before and after Church.

Advertising. We’re advertising the yard sale in the newspapers and on the Church website, and we’re coordinated with Wesley Methodist which is holding a yard sale on the same day. But there’s no such thing as “enough” advertising. Take a flyer, and post it on your bulletin board at work or in the grocery store. Send flyers to friends – through the postal service or by e-mail. Get the word out! The more people who come, the more successful the yard sale will be.
Please see Joonu Coste or John Mirick to sign up as a volunteer. We have some coverage for everything, but coverage is a little skimpy in a couple of times. With lots of volunteers this will be a fun project!