Our annual rummage sale date is rapidly approaching (April 11-12) and we have no one to lead it. If no one steps up to lead it, WUUC will lose $6000 towards our annual budget. We do this sale every year at the same time and the community counts on it to happen; if we skip a year we may lose the community muscle memory to come to the sale and have lower sales in future years. We will also lose some benefit/service at church with the loss to the budget. The community also counts on this sale for affordable clothes/books/toys/household supplies; one year a woman bought almost all of the summer clothes I had donated from my kids and she expressed her great joy and relief that she could outfit her kids for such an incredibly low price!
You don’t have to do this alone! My first few years I had a team and people were assigned specific tasks (one did the advertising, one ordered the truck, one did regular emails to the congregation, etc). I am very happy to walk you (alone or with a buddy or a whole team) through the process. I will also be volunteering during the sale prep process (I oddly really enjoy that part) and the sale itself. There are also a lot of folks that have been helping regularly at the sale who I know will step up to participate.
Never been to the sale so have no idea what I’m talking about or just have questions; email me and we can chat! mortonmarler@hotmail.com.
Thank you for considering, Leslie Morton