West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day Update: 90 sales so far!

Spring may not have made up its mind about weather consistency just yet, but – flashing forward one month and one day – May 14th is looking brighter all the time. Nine days into the registration period, the 90th sale has just signed up for the seventh annual West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day (coordinated and presented by WSB)!

When we announced last week that registration had opened, we forgot to tell you when it closes – end of the evening, April 27th. That’s two more weeks, but why procrastinate? If you want to be part of the city’s biggest garage-saling day of the year (200+ sales big and small last year), just go here and sign up now. While it’s fun to shop and/or sell, what we have also heard from participants over the years is that it’s great to meet more West Seattle neighbors in person, as you either host a sale or visit the ones nearest you. (If you don’t have enough space for a sale, but you have stuff to sell, group spots offering space so far include: Hotwire Online Coffeehouse (WSB sponsor – 2010 photo above), lora@hotwirecoffee.comC & P Coffee Company (WSB sponsor), candpco@comcast.net VFW Hall in The Triangle, call (206) 935-4352 – and if you are looking to sell bikes/gear, check with Cycle U in The Triangle; you can also stop in at any of those venues to ask about space.)

On May 14th, sale hours are 9 am-3 pm, all over the peninsula – we’ll have the maps (online and downloadable/printable) available one week in advance so you can plot your path! And again, to sign up YOUR sale – individual or business/group/school/organization/block – just go here (it’s all online). If you’re on Facebook, keep an eye on the WSCGSD page here; and be sure you have “liked” the semi-new WSB page (we moved a few weeks ago), at facebook.com/westseattleblog.

8 Replies to "West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day Update: 90 sales so far!"

  • Cheryl April 13, 2011 (11:25 am)

    This year, I won’t be having a sale of my own, so I get to check out all the OTHER sales around the peninsula. Can’t wait! :-)

  • Colleen April 13, 2011 (12:28 pm)

    Have you heard so far if anyone/group/school is doing a sale that day for any type of fundraising? I’ve got books and DVD’s that I am going to donate somewhere, and I was thinking if there was someone using the sale to fundraise I would donate the items .

    • WSB April 13, 2011 (12:53 pm)

      Yes, there is at least one I know of. I haven’t read through them all yet. Watch for an update on that, hopefully within a few days.

  • Tony April 13, 2011 (12:53 pm)

    what does my 12.00 go to?

    • WSB April 13, 2011 (12:59 pm)

      The fees, which we cut the first year we took over (from the nonprofit that held it the first three years and then disbanded) and have kept the same ever since, pay for the cost of organizing/presenting/promoting WSCGSD, producing the map, distributing the info materials, etc. And if there is anything left over, it goes to ongoing WSB operations, which otherwise are funded solely by advertising (two fulltime staffers, many paid freelancers, Internet access/hardware/hosting, parking downtown when we go to court, it piles up, like any business! etc.). It’s a hot trend to suggest that small publications use events as an additional revenue stream, but this is the only one we can manage to organize and pull off each year, at this point! – TR

  • furryfaces April 13, 2011 (1:36 pm)

    Furry Faces Foundation and AARF are both excited to be back at Hotwire Coffeehouse.

    Colleen–thank you for thinking of donating to a non-profit. AARF will be accepting donations for their garage sale booth, so books ‘n’ DVD’s sound great…if you would like to consider their group.

    Furry Faces will have a selection of vegetable, annual and perennial plants again.

    AARF will be accept

  • MargL April 13, 2011 (8:03 pm)

    Arbor Heights Coop Preschool is also signing up to have a fund raising sale down here at Hillcrest Presbyterian Church.

  • Ashley April 13, 2011 (9:42 pm)

    Along with having a garage sale, I am also having a bake sale fundraiser with 100% proceeds going to Susan G. Komen (as this is my 3rd year walking 60 miles in the 3 Day). Last year our bake sale fundraised over $1100!

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