What you need to know on West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day eve

It’s West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day eve! 9 am-3 pm TOMORROW (Saturday), 340+ sales of all sizes, all over West Seattle. Even if you’re not shopping for anything in particular, WSCGSD’s biggest success every year is as a way for neighbors to meet face-to-face, and that’s a big reason why we’ve been happy to coordinate/present it since its fourth year in 2008.

You’ve probably seen the map by now – online edition here, printable sale list/guide/map here (21-page PDF, so make sure the printer’s stocked)!

A few other notes:

Sale #191 started early – 4822 SW Niesz Court – and sent that photo; they’re going until at least 4 pm today. A few other sales are starting early and/or ending late – if they mentioned it in their registration, it’s mentioned in their map listing.

Hotwire Online Coffeehouse (#183, 4410 California) and C & P Coffee Company (#21, 5612 California SW) are the official multi-seller sites. The sales that registered as “block sales” are:

*#289 – 3200 block 48th SW
*#321 – 4000 block 54th SW
*#158 – 5057 36th SW
*#141 – 5630 31st SW
*#339 – 2411 SW Myrtle
*#137 – 5914 34th SW
*#32 – 5454 45th SW
*#205 – 2719 47th SW
*#201 – 5231 SW Stevens
*#100 – 6600 38th SW
*#340 – Sylvan Ridge Townhomes

Remember that some sales are in garages, others are in front yards, others are in garages/carports on alleys. Where “special instructions” were provided, you’ll find them in the listings. But if you get to a specific address and don’t see the sale, maybe it’s out back.

*More unusual items you’ll find in the listings:
Grand Piano … Moroccan pottery … military-history books … ’50s tile tabletop … custom fireplace mantel … air hockey table … Porsche rims … castoffs from film sets …

*Did we mention the nonprofit/benefit sales? More than 20 – we’ve updated the list here.

*A bit o’trivia – West Seattle neighborhoods with sales include:
Admiral, Alki, Arbor Heights, Beach Drive, Belvidere, Brace Point, City View, Delridge, Fauntleroy, Gatewood, Genesee, Hansen View, Highland Park, High Point, Junction, Lincoln Park, Luna Park, Morgan Junction, North Admiral, Pigeon Point, Puget Ridge, Schmitz Park, Seaview, Snake Hill, Sunrise Heights, Sylvan Ridge, Upper Alki, Upper Fauntleroy, Westwood
(Go see a neighborhood you haven’t visited before!)

*Please check westseattlegaragesale.com in the morning for any last-minute cancellations that were too late to make it onto the printable map – the clickable map is updatable and if we get word one’s canceled, we’re changing it there.

*Also – please do put out your Stamp Out Hunger food-donation bag by wherever your mail is picked up/delivered, before you go out to sell/shop tomorrow morning!

We hope to squeeze in one more round of updates/previews tonight around mid-evening, providing breaking news doesn’t get in the way, and then we’ll be out covering it all tomorrow, starting with early-morning preparedness – photos welcome at garagesale@westseattleblog.com – thanks!

Julie May 8, 2015 (10:04 pm)

Hi, just wanted to let you know that there is a car-load of people going around our neighborhood, going through yards with flashlights, like they are “pre-saling” garage sales. We watched a woman through our window- we knocked on the window, (like, WTH ARE YOU DOING GOING INTO OUR CARPORT???) she acknowledged us, and kept browsing, so pretty ballsy. Then she went through neighbor’s yards as well. They took off as soon as my husband went outside. Just thought everyone should know….

WSB May 8, 2015 (11:31 pm)

Julie – that sounds like something that should be called in to the police, which I hope you did.

spiff May 9, 2015 (2:12 am)

Oddly the PDF file is not searchable. I tried typing in “TV” and no results found.. even though there are plenty of listings that include the term “TV”

I copied all the text and pasted it in a notepad and it spit out a bunch of garbled text. The text isn’t encoded correctly or something.

WSB May 9, 2015 (2:23 am)

Sorry about that – have done it the same way every year, same computer, even, and have not heard complaints previously. Maybe it depends on what program you open it with – Acrobat vs. Preview, etc. If you search the online map, it’ll bring up the sale numbers that have the type of item (if any) you’re looking for, and you can cross-ref those to the printout.

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