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Yard Sale and Holiday Fair 2024

Shoppers in the Parish Hall browse through aisles of folding tables covered with yard sale items such as bags, umbrellas, kitchen appliances, and artificial Christmas trees.

Yard Sale

Find it at the FUUSN Yard Sale! Toys, tools, kitchen gadgets, small electronics, pet supplies, household items, crafts, art, and so much more!

Important Yard Sale dates:
  • October 20 through Friday before noon, October 25:  Donations are accepted (no books until the Holiday Fair) at FUUSN after service. (See below for donation guidelines.)
  • Thursday, October 24 and Friday October 25: Yard Sale Setup
  • Saturday, October 26: Yard Sale opens to the public at 9:30am. Clean-up starts at 1pm.

Questions? Contact us at YardSale@fuusn.org.

Volunteer to make the Yard Sale and Holiday Fair a success.

Your participation matters. These events have been so successful because the FUUSN community has donated, volunteered and spread the word. Sign up with our Signup Genius form: Yard Sale – Volunteer!

Holiday Fair

The FUUSN Holiday Fair is a fun, festive event on Saturday December 7. Join us as the Parish Hall is transformed into a Holiday marketplace. Shop for gifts, toys, homemade baked goods, wreaths and swags. The Baked Goods table is overflowing with homemade cookies, cakes and sweets, Pick up a fresh green wreath, topped with a colorful bow.  Buy a ticket for the Quilt Raffle. You might win a handmade quilt. There’s a holiday caroling session open to all who want to join. Come one, come all to the FUUSN Holiday Fair.

Questions? Contact us at HolidayFair@fuusn.org

Important Holiday Fair dates
  • Sunday, November 26 – Friday, December 6: Donations of books and other fair items will be accepted after the service (See below for donation guidelines)
  • December 5 & 6: Holiday Fair set up
  • December 7: Holiday Fair opens to the public

We need your help to make this event successful. Watch your email and the FUUSN newsletter for information on what and when to donate items. You can 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 the Yard Sale/Holiday Fair team more information.  If you need to donate ahead of the FUUSN drop off dates, contact 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 organizers

What to Donate – and Please NOT Donate – to the Yard Sale and Holiday Fair

We are excited to be holding both the yard sale and the holiday fair again!  We need your donations to make these a success.  However, there are a couple of things we’d like you to keep in mind about donations:
  1. If you have items that are appropriate for the Yard Sale, please get them to FUUSN before October 26. See below for suggestions about what kinds of items belong in which category.
  2. 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. 
  3. 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.
So, what are some examples of items that belong in what category?  The following list should give some guidance (and if you still have questions, feel free to contact me):
  • 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 clothing or shoes, 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…).
With your help, we can make this a wonderful Yard Sale and Holiday Fair!
  • Piles of boxes and bags are carefully organized with labels on yellow paper reading,
  • Volunteers begin setting out items on long folding tables and empty shelves in the Parish Hall.
  • Volunteers arrange items such as bags and books on folding tables in the Parish Hall.
  • Two children climb the steps up to a stage where two adult volunteers are sorting items for the yard sale.
  • In the Parish Hall, folding tables and temporary shelves are fully laden with items for the yard sale.
  • Viewed from above the Parish Hall, four rows of folding tables are covered in items for sale. Shelves line one wall of the hall and pews the opposit walls, laden with further selections. The stage at the far end has been largely cleared. All is ready for the sale.