Action shot on Heck Avenue during the 2015 edition of the OG Town-wide Yard Sale. Blogfinger photo ©
Ocean Grove Town-Wide Yard Sale. Paul Goldfinger photo. Blogfinger.net © 2014.
We will be having the 7th Annual Town-Wide Yard Sale on SAturday, May 12, 2018, from 9 am to 4 pm. Blogfinger will be sponsoring the tradition. .
Contact us: Blogfinger email (Blogfinger@verizon.net)
We will need some more volunteers—-Grovers will be needed to monitor the sale on that Saturday by riding around town on bikes checking on the participants. Other tasks: print fliers, hand out fliers, take photographs of sales that day, place some signs around town (entrances etc,) , and we are open to suggestions/ideas to promote the event.
Think about getting some fliers from us and placing them wherever–eg church, meeting halls, other towns nearby, on your home, etc. Get the kids to set up lemonade stands.
Mark your calendars now and think about having a sale. Notify us with your name, address, cross street, and email for now. Items for sale can be added later. Groupings of sales attract more shoppers.
Our Town-Wide Yard Sale attracts out-of-towners, but it is never a deluge. Parking is not a problem on the Saturday of the Mother’s Day weekend, and it is great fun to walk around with Mom.
It is people strolling strolling through our town visiting our beautiful neighborhoods and chatting with the locals. It is as much a social event as it is a sale and it is the sort of activity that promotes a sense of community, unlike the massive, grid-locking events that we are used to in OG.
As before, we will establish a page on Blogfinger to list all the sellers and, eventually, their list of items. We will provide links for visitors to find on their cell phones that will offer maps of the Grove and the official sellers list. We will advertise on BF, Coaster, APP, Camp Meeting* Booklet and electric sign, word-of mouth (tell your friends,) and any other way that you might suggest.
Don’t forget that you will need a Yard Sale permit.
More details will follow. We will schedule a meeting at the Blogfinger headquarters in March to discuss details with volunteers. Stay tuned.
So, be like the Quotations and use your imagination to make our event a success:
* The CMA refused this request.