Yard Sale and Holiday Fair 2023
The Yard Sale will be set up on Thursday night and all day Friday, October 26 and 27. We will open to the public on Saturday, October 28. We will take donations (no books until the fair) at FUUSN from after service on October 22 through Friday afternoon, October 27.
The Holiday Fair will be set up on Thursday night, November 30 and all day Friday, December 1. We will open to the public on Saturday, December 2. Donations of books and other fair items will be accepted from after service on Sunday, November 26 through Friday, December 1.
These events have been so successful because everyone has donated, volunteered and spread the word. We will be sending out specifics on what and when to donate, how to sign up to setup, sort, sell and clean up. We particularly need volunteers for the Silent Auction, crafts, publicity and selling Fair Trade items. Contact us for more information. If you need to donate ahead of the FUUSN drop off dates, call us and we will try to figure out an alternative.
Denise Bousquet, Connie Stubbs — Yard Sale Co-Chairs
Barbara Schmitt, Kit Ryan, Sandy Jones, Ruth Comstock, Laurel Farnsworth —Holiday Fair
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What to Donate – and Please NOT Donate – to the Yard Sale
- If you have items that are appropriate for the yard sale, please get them to FUUSN before October 27. See below for suggestions about what kinds of items belong in which category.
- Please, please, please don’t donate things that are dirty, moldy, incomplete, broken, chipped or unsaleable. We have to throw them out – and since FUUSN pays for trash removal, these donations actually cost FUUSN money.
- Books are sold at the holiday fair only. We don’t have room to store them, so please don’t bring them in with yard sale items.
- Yard sale: everyday kitchen items (working small appliances, measuring cups, pots and pans, odd plates and bowls, coffee mugs with logos on them…), usable linens, tools and hardware, office supplies, basic holiday decorations, clean yard/garden items, and gently-used toys/games, handbags/backpacks, and decorative items. Please, no large sports equipment (skis, bikes, etc.) and no large electronics (tv’s, computer monitors, etc.). Note that many larger items can go to the Swap Shop on Rumford Ave.
- Holiday Fair: items that someone could give as a gift. Sets of pretty mugs, sets of placemats and napkins in like-new condition, unopened cocktail napkins, boxed cards, like-new decorative items, like-new silk scarves, nicer holiday decorations, unopened toys and puzzles, items with some value (artwork, sets of china, silver items…) – and of course, jewelry and books.
- Inappropriate donations (please don’t make FUUSN pay to dispose of these): anything that is dirty, moldy or stained (including moldy books). Anything that is chipped or broken, no matter how nice it is otherwise. Anything that is obsolete (cassette tapes, VHS tapes, old computer/phone cables, old travel guidebooks, etc.). Anything that is incomplete (puzzles/board games that are missing pieces, appliances that are missing cords or necessary accessories…).