We continued to collect donations up to June 19th and still managed to collect a ton more stuff this month. We received a bunch of tiger themed décor as well as a MASSIVE television. We priced everything prior to the sale, and my group mates, Liz and Abby, were able to move everything that was boxed, so basically everything besides large furniture, to the church on Thursday. I couldn't make it that night because of work and we didn't even know for sure if we could do that until Wednesday so I couldn't get it off but they got everything down there, it just took a little longer without my help. We also made signs to put out on Horizon and Patterson and had a banner Roice-Hurst lent us for the sale. The next day was Friday, the 20th, and the first day of the sale. We arrived at the church at 6:15 AM to set up. We had moved everything except the massive TV and a couple pieces of furniture to either Liz's or Abby's house from my house, as they're closer to the church than I was. My family dropped off the stuff from my house and my mom stayed to help move everything out to the parking lot from the youth room inside the church with our cars. This part took the longest and proved to be the craziest. We were to begin the sale at 8:30 that morning and still hadn't set up any of the stuff, due to parameters established by the church. Everyone was driving around and lifting and moving. Abby and Liz were driving back and forth from their houses with the help of their mom's and a couple of our friends, Jess and Camren. It was not only nerve racking, but strenuous as well. One man even showed up around 7:30 asking to buy one of our microwaves as we were setting up but he came back once we were set up and ended up buying one of our microwaves. I also set up the signs and we set up the banner in front of the church. Once everything was set up, people began arriving. Magic 93.1 even came down and interviewed me on their live radio show to promote the sale! It was crazy. At the end of the first day, although we had raised hundreds of dollars for Roice Hurst Humane Society, we still had so much stuff left over for the next day. Saturday we arrived at 8:00 to set up again and the day was not nearly as busy as Friday. We had contacted a man that was doing a rummage sale in September for the same cause with the actual president of Roice Hurst Humane Society. By 3:00 Saturday we still had a lot of donations left and so he came and picked up anything he thought would sell with his partner for their own sale. Anything he didn't take we donated to Goodwill or Salvation Army and anything they didn't take we dropped at the dump. collected all the money from the donation jar and from the donated items.
We cleaned up the tables and the parking lot and Having everything gone is so relieving and at the end of our sale, we've raised $1871 for Roice-Hurst Humane Society just from donations from people all over the valley! This experience was so rewarding and so challenging, and although I'm not sure I will ever initiate anything like this rummage sale again, I'm proud of my group's work.
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