Most Successful Fundraiser to Date!

You never really know how a garage sale is going to turn out. What if the weather is awful? What if we don’t have many customers? What if people think that all we have is junk?? All of these questions and more ran through my mind before the garage sale… I am thrilled that all my worries were unfounded!

I woke up Saturday morning to clear blue skies; a bit chilly, but we could handle that. It was rain that we didn’t want and luckily for us, that didn’t happen. Arrived at Starre’s place at 7:10 am to find that there were already people going through our stuff. I was shocked! I heard about this garage sale culture, but had never actually seen it first hand. I couldn’t believe that there were people awake and dressed at 7 am on a Saturday morning, already going to garage sales… I’m not judging them at all, I’ve just never seen it before. We literally had to ask people to please wait because we weren’t even close to being completely set up. We had so much stuff!! All team members, particularly Starre, have been busy for weeks collecting items that were generously donated to us from family and friends. It took us awhile to set everything up, but we were good to go before 9 am (thanks to Starre who started setting up before the team even got there). I saw soon enough that I didn’t have to worry about us not having customers. We advertised well and we had a steady flow of people all day with several rushes. We also had a lot of people stopping by because they saw that it was for charity and we received a lot of appreciation and compliments from people all day.  Amazing… As for people thinking that all we had was junk- definitely not the case. We had some great items, but for sure there were things that I thought might not sell. But one man’s junk is definitely another’s treasure…

All this to say, by the end of the day we managed to sell most of what we had for a grand total of… $1075!! It is amazing to me that we managed to raise that just by selling things that people generously donated. Thank you so much to everyone who gave us items to sell and to those who came by and bought stuff or gave a donation. All in all, I found that most people were generous. Most people understood that we were not profiting from this in any way, that proceeds are going to charity, and therefore didn’t give us any problems.  I appreciated that. As for those who were haggling us to save a dollar or two off of items that we were practically giving away, knowing full well that it was for charity… I just didn’t get it. All in all, we had a great day. Tiring, but fun and definitely worthwhile.

Thanks again everyone! Our next fundraising event is a car wash on July 7, 2007.  Details will be coming shortly…