[Electronic-lan] Neighborhood Garage Sale Questions

[Brook Creek Neighborhood Assn]

Brook Creek neighborhood association has done a neighborhood wide sale
where each household holds their own sale, but the neighborhood association
advertises the sale and lists specific addresses in the advertisements for
a $10 donation per household.  That has worked well for us.  Let me know if
you have any other questions.

Emily
BCNA coordinator

On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Steve Lopes via Electronic-lan <
electronic-lan at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> Correction:
>
> That's Saturday SEPTEMBER 16, not October.
>
> S.
>
> *The plural for "anecdote" is not "data."*
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Lopes via Electronic-lan <electronic-lan at lists.ku.edu>
> To: steve <steve at acornwebworks.com>; electronic-lan <
> electronic-lan at lists.ku.edu>
> Sent: Sat, Jul 15, 2017 4:06 pm
> Subject: Re: [Electronic-lan] Neighborhood Garage Sale Questions
>
> The OWLA exec committee met Tuesday to plan our annual neighborhood sale.
> We specifically discussed outreach with neighboring NAs including Pinckney.
>
> Our annual sale will be held Saturday, October 16, one of the few days
> with a KU away football game.
>
> We did a central yard sale once and ended up giving a lot to Goodwill.
> Logistics were a problem. Since then we coordinate and advertise locations
> with a map on on website. We ask for a percentage of sales donated to the
> association and many exceed the request.
>
> Steve Lopes, OWLA Treasurer
>
> *The plural for "anecdote" is not "data."*
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Braswell via Electronic-lan <electronic-lan at lists.ku.edu>
> To: electronic-lan <electronic-lan at lists.ku.edu>
> Sent: Sat, Jul 15, 2017 3:02 pm
> Subject: [Electronic-lan] Neighborhood Garage Sale Questions
>
> 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 <(785)%20841-6902>
> steve at acornwebworks.com
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*Emily Winters*
Coordinator
Brook Creek Neighborhood Association
brookcreekna at gmail.com
(7850 760-4742
https://brookcreeklawrence.wordpress.com
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