Trinity Lutheran Church will again participate in the annual Normal Hill Neighborhood Yard Sale.
WHEN? August 1st 8AM until around 2PM
WHERE? Trinity Fellowship Hall and Front lawn
Here are the guidelines this year after a few years of experience:
GENTLY used items. Please, please, please do not donate dirty, torn, stained, broken or non-working items. Please use the rule of thumb….If you would not buy it yourself in the condition the item is in, then please do not donate. Your consideration is greatly appreciated by those of us working on Friday to prepare for the sale.
No adult clothes please. Children’s clothes to around preteen age are great. Last year we were BURIED in adult clothes! We have some fabulous volunteers that sort, fold, hang and arrange items and they were overworked trying to tackle all the adult clothes.
If you have items that you want to donate, and you want to bring them early, you can store them downstairs, East wing, in the storeroom near the Women’s restroom. However, if you do take your items downstairs, make plans to bring them back up near sale day. Again, appreciated by those working to set up. Otherwise, during the month of July, you can bring your items and put them in the corner of the Fellowship hall along the East wall. We will take it from there!
I am requesting that people not ask me to buy things before the sale, because it is hard for me to say no and we want all the items to be available for shoppers. So NO presale shopping! (I can write it down to tell you no, but face to face, I fail.) Thank you!
We will still provide water and Iced Coffee for folks if the youth group still wants to do that. But there needs to be more than just a couple of youth doing it. Last year the crew was pretty thin. I would also like to have the youth make paper footprints that we can tape to the floor so that shoppers can find their way to the restroom and we do not have to escort and direct people.
If you have tote bags to donate, those would be awesome for shoppers to put their purchases in. Grocery sacks are good too. We use the boxes that stuff comes in, so we don’t need additional boxes.
Volunteers needed for:
Friday set up:
1) We start at least by 7AM to work when it is cooler, and it usually takes a good portion of the day to organize things. If you are good at organizing (like Carmen!) we need you!
2) Put up signs. I kept them from last year so they just need put up.
Day of Sale:
1) Assist people, answer questions.
2) Keep things tidy as people rifle through stuff.
3) I (Denise) will again work the cash register.
4) Depending if we have a lot of small items, for example, jewelry…it would be great if someone would sit near me with those items and let me know what they are buying (keep those little items from walking)
5) Youth to make and serve coffee. I will provide the flavors for the coffee, cups and lids for both water and coffee.
6) And the cream job? Sit in the West wing so that people don’t wander around when they use the rest rooms. Yep, all you have to do is sit on the couch and let people know how to get back to the sale.
If you can and plan to volunteer, please let Denise know ahead of time, because I tend to stress out if I don’t think I will have enough people to help. In fact, I really need to know if any youth want to do the water, coffee thing, because that gets put in the advertising for the sale. If we don’t have anyone to serve, I won’t put it in.
You all are appreciated, whether you help, donate or pray for us! Thank you for your participation in this community outreach event. We get a lot of good comments, so it puts Trinity’s Name out there!
God Bless
Denise