Monday, October 12, 2015

2015 Garage Sale

We had another hugely successful garage sale fundraiser.  Thank you very much to our hostess, Chris M., and to all of the sisters who brought treasures to sell, snacks, helped with set up and sold!  This is an enormous undertaking, and we have so much fun working together!


We started a week in advance.  Vicky and Karen F. (previous hostesses) came over to prepare the garage.

Karen and Lori organizing supplies

Pre-sorting

The garage has a loose plan, and we're now ready for the rest of our sisters to bring over their treasures.





Chris M. sorting books


We never know what's going to show up : )

A shift of sister helpers

Another shift of helpers

We tuck it all away until our sale starts tomorrow.


It's time to sell!

Friday morning sellers!


Natalie R. using her super-human mom skills to organize boys' toys

Thank you to everyone that brought snacks throughout the prep and sale days!

Thank you, Natalie G., for sending over pizza!

Dani came to shop!

On Saturday at 1:00pm, EVERYTHING is $0.25!!  We promote this throughout the sale, and people come back and clean things out for us!

When you're an awesome IIOA, and your home is taken over by sisters, you can be silly : )


We raised $2,200 for the AOII Foundation, Arthritis Foundation, Comer Children's Hospital, collegiate scholarships, etc!