[Electronic-lan] Neighborhood Garage Sale Questions

[Steve Braswell]

The Pinckney Neighborhood Association is planning a neighborhood garage
sale as a fund raiser for PNA and we would like to hear of other
neighborhood group’s experiences with this type venture.



For starters we are considering two approaches.



One is having a central location where neighbors bring donated items and
PNA volunteers conduct the sale and PNA keeps all proceeds. Thoughts about
this approach include the need to obtain a sufficiently large location with
parking, having storage space to collect items before the sale, people
would be needed to price items then place them out to sale and then deal
with left over unsold items. We thought possibly donate left over items to
the Salvation Army or other organization.



The other approach would be to have PNA advertise a neighborhood wide sale
where people would have their own garage sales at their residence then
hopefully donate a portion of their proceeds to PNA. It was mentioned this
is how the Arts Guild runs Art In The Park.



I know some neighborhood associations have held neighborhood garage sales
and would like to hear about your experiences.



Are we missing any other ideas how to organize something like this?



Thanks in advance for any help.


Steve Braswell
785-841-6902
steve at acornwebworks.com
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