San Antonio Catholic Church Annual Garage Sale

Our annual church garage sale was held on September 7th and 8th and as usual was a big success. Every year about 12 years I have participated with this event. This year was no exception. Our parishioners started donating their goods the 1st week of August. Immediately, we need volunteers to sort, clean, price and box up the donations. We don't get too many volunteers, mostly it's the same people year after year. This year, as in the past, the donations were very generious. Each day after work, I would arrive to volunteer at either 3:30pm or 6:30pm and work sometimes until after 9:00pm. We would also put in a full day on Saturday trying to keep ahead of the donations. The items filled up 2-large storage bins (each bin about the size of a single wide mobile home. Larger items such as furniture would fill up one of the classrooms at church and the classroom where we did most of our work was also full. Even the walkway outside the classrooms was full of boxes of shoes, baskets, purses, luggage, books and so many other misc. items. Our garage sale was such a success again this year. The first day of the garage sale we made $20,000 dollars. By the end of Saturday we were selling plastic grocery bags for $1.00 where customers could fill-up the bags for only $1.00. By the end of our garage sale we had earned approximately $27,000 dollars. It's a lot of work but so rewarding. Every year I enjoy the fellowship with some of the other volunteers and the rewards of earning so much money for the church that is used for the poor and homeless families. If you would like to see amazing picture of this event, please visit my picture site and click on the Church Garage Sale link. Here is the link to the picture site:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/SelectPhotos.jsp?collid=688221143503&fromBUM=true&UAUTOLOGIN_ID=14835830603&UAUTOLOGIN_ID=14835830603