a. We are now receiving addresses for those who will participate in the May 11 Town-Wide Yard Sale. Today we have gone from zero to 7. This is only the beginning, and we would like to reach at least 60 addresses, preferably 100. Don’t forget that Township permits are needed $5.00 each at Town Hall. Send us your addresses at Blogfinger@verizon.net and don’t forget to tell us you nearest cross street.
The list of addresses can now be found in the Yard Sale page tab (on top of this home page). Just scroll down to the bottom. We will update the LIST as the addresses come in and add the items for sale about one week before May 11.
As we build our list, the addresses will be posted by locations in town so that sales can be grouped together for shoppers. Ask your neighbors to consider joining the fun.
Shoppers: Please do not contact our sellers until the day of the sale.
As noted, sellers can provide their sale items to us whenever they are available, but those items will not be announced until about one week in advance of the sale.
b. 2 days ago , when our report on the Mayor’s behavior at the last Committee meeting, was published, we had 1,000 visits to our site. Even though most readers do not comment, we know that they are interested.
c. Send us an email (Blogfinger@verizon.net) and tell us which is your favorite Chinese restaurant which delivers to Ocean Grove. The Chinese New Year (year of the pig) ends on Feb 19. We will post all the suggestions.
This poster from last year will be updated shortly. The 2016 sale, 5th Annual, will be Saturday May 7 on Mother’s Day weekend.
This will be the Fifth Annual Town-wide Yard Sale, sponsored by Blogfinger. It will, as before, be held on the Saturday of the Mother’s’ Day weekend—May 7, 2016, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Rain or shine.
Each year has been an even better success in terms of number of sellers. Last year, despite some rain, the event was a success nevertheless, with 75 addresses participating in the Grove (some addresses had multiple families together,) and our number of participants surpassed several towns at the shore. Given the charms of Ocean Grove, it was a success from a yard sale perspective, but also as a fun social activity. Many visitors came to OG from out of town. The bigger the participation, the better the event from the point of view of shoppers and yard sailors. 2015 link below.
The sale details are fairly simple. We will maintain a Yard Sale page (usually posted around mid April) at the top of Blogfinger which can be referenced at any time. Any ads that are placed elsewhere, as in the Coaster or in fliers, will refer the reader to the Blogfinger.net yard sale page where they will find a list of participants’ addresses grouped by neighborhood and including the nearest cross street for each address. We will also post a list of sale items for each address. Participants can add more items at any time just by emailing BF.
Anyone can join our listing—the more the merrier. You can even add your address right up to the day before the event. If anyone wants to volunteer to work on promoting the event, printing and handing out fliers or posters, or otherwise helping us advertise it, you can contact us by email at Blogfinger@verizon.net. We are open to any promotional ideas, but if you have one, please consider volunteering to implement it. We have no staff. Merchants can be listed as sponsors for a small fee.
This event is a win-win in town, because that weekend is usually not crowded, so there should be ample parking, and the merchants will benefit from the visitors that we attract. It is a fun day for those who are entertaining Moms here in the Grove. The town-wide yard sale is a terrific social event, so it is more that just a find-a-treasure adventure .
To participate, just contact Blogfinger at our email location (Blogfinger@verizon.net). Tell us your name, house address, cross street, email address and your phone number. You can add the list of specific for sale items later. Signups begin immediately, although we won’t be posting them for awhile. We will set up an email list for us to communicate to participants. Only your sale items, address, and location information will be seen by the public, unless you also want your name or other contact information included.
During the week before the sale, we will advertise in the Coaster and the APP. We will also boost the Blogfinger ads then as well.
So please start getting your stuff together and let us know. If any of you want to advertise elsewhere, be my guest. Just include the Blogfinger web site address (www.Blogfinger.net) and refer the reader to our Yard Sale page.
As for a Neptune Township yard sale permit, you do need one. Just go to the Mother Ship (municipal building on Neptune Boulevard—entrance off Davis Ave. in the back) and go to the construction office. The price for a community yard sale permit is $5.00 per address. Tell them you are with the town-wide yard sale; otherwise it will be $10.00. Remember, you are not allowed to post notices on telephone poles or trees. You can post our flier on your own porch, so let us know if you want a flier. It might be good to post a flier at each location along with some balloons (Yellow is our official color.)
And if it seems that you’ve heard all this before, here is Harry James with one of our Yard Sale theme songs. It is from the Woody Allen movie Hannah and Her Sisters.
1st Annual town-wide sale. Neighbors on Stockton form a team. Blogfinger photo. 5/10/14
TO THE EDITOR:
Could you advise the 2014 date for the BF town garage sale? I neglected to write it down when it was previously announced.
Please do add me to the list for this year and thank you.
JOHANNA H.
Ocean Pathway, Ocean Grove, New Jersey
2014
1st Annual Town-wide Yard Sale. Mt. Hermon Way. Blogfinger photo
Editor’s Note: We are looking forward to the 1st Annual Blogfinger Ocean Grove Town-wide Yard Sale on May 10, 2014, which is the Saturday of the Mother’s Day Weekend. We have found that to be a very good time because there usually is plenty of parking around town, the weather is usually lovely, and we get all these wonderful Moms, townies, and out-of-the-Grove visitors who get to walk all over town, socialize with the locals and find bargains.
We will provide more details in April. There will be an official list of participants and a nominal charge to cover advertising and various film-flam gimmicks to promote the event.
Johanna is now officially the first to “sign up” so we are accepting names/addresses starting now. Eileen Goldfinger is our Yard Sale editor, so contact her at Blogfinger@verizon.net.
We are open to ideas as to how to make this year the best ever. Also volunteers will be needed to keep the machine well oiled. And, don’t forget, it’s cherry pink and apple blossom time:
