Closing in on 110 sales, with four days to sign up …

That’s a big jump from last year, when we only hit 100 on the second-to-last day to register, so #110 was in the final batch … OK, OK, so we have a longer registration period this year. Still, it’s only natural to wait till the last moment. Now, a few reminders: When you register, please make sure you give us the correct mailing address, and indicate if the sale is at a different address – we are mailing everybody a packet, with your “official participant” sign plus some other information, and we need to make sure that gets to you well in advance of sale day. Also, just so you know, we are continuing to place ads around the area so as we move from registration to the two-week pre-sale publicity push, there shouldn’t be a bargain hunter within 100 miles who hasn’t heard of WSCGSD. So – you signed up yet?

Registration countdown: Six days to go

11:59 pm next Saturday (April 25), we need to have your registration in hand – either online (which means if you start registering by, oh, say, 11:50 or so that night to get through the form and PayPal, you should be more than golden) or by postal mail (we’d suggest sending the form no later than Thursday) … We have those courtyard sales at Hotwire and C & P Coffee (check if there’s still room), we have school sales (including Roxhill and Gatewood Elementaries), block sales, estate sales, and dozens of great individual sales. Want to make a few extra bucks? Clean up and sell out! Er, outside, we mean. 9 am-3 pm Saturday, May 9th, is the date/time for the official West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day – our second year coordinating it, but this is the 5th annual WSCGSD!

3 weeks till WSCGSD – 1 week left to register!

Close to 90 sales now, with one week of registration remaining. Our focus the past few days has been stepping up the marketing, now that we’re three weeks away from The Big Day – we’ve spent the past two days distributing the first wave of posters (we’ll have a revised poster once the registration period is closed, and we’ll post a link here so you can print one out if you want to put it up at work, school, wherever) and also starting to line up the advertising — just started with the granddaddy of ‘em all, the Little Nickel (in print and online) … one of us worked for a similar publication many, many years ago and many, many miles away, so we have a soft spot for such things. But online is the most important way to get the word out now, and since we are major Facebook and Twitter users at West Seattle Blog, we’ve been utilizing those “channels” too. (On FB, become a fan of West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day – go here.)

Update: 70 sales!

… and we haven’t even been to the mailbox yet today. But online registration is the way to go – see the tab above.

We were asked at last night’s Pigeon Point Neighborhood Council meeting, so what do you get for your registration fee?

Regional promotion – including your spot on The Map, and an “ad” of up to 10-words on The Map. As we’ve mentioned before, this is the FIRST major community-wide garage sale day in Seattle this year, so bargain-hunters will be dying to get out and shop (not to mention, economic belt-tightening makes garage saling more popular than ever). West Seattle will be THE place to be on May 9 — be part of it!

Registration update, and more on 2 group-sale sites

First come, first served for the 20 spaces in the Hotwire Coffee courtyard on Garage Sale Day!!!!

Also offering space if you don’t have room for your own sale, C and P Coffee.

And don’t forget that signups are in full swing – more than 30 sales signed up now! Here’s how you can sign up too.

2009 registration updates, after first weekend of signups

Great 1st weekend for West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day registration for 2009 — 25 sales registered, including several group/block sales!

Speaking of which, we now have two locations, if you want to be part of the big day but don’t have a place for your own sale:

–Hotwire Coffee: Get in touch with owner Lora about space in the courtyard

–C and P Coffee: Talk with owner Cameron

Both are reachable through their shops, with info at their websites. In addition to an extended registration window (three full weeks this year), we’re adding another time-related improvement: More time to get/review the map. We’ll be promoting West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day at the Sustainable West Seattle Festival on the preceding Sunday, May 3, so it makes perfect sense to have the map ready in time to hand out at the festival — extra days to review it and plot your sale travels!

Ready to sign up? The forms are linked here (and within a day or two, we will also have a few locations listed for you to pick up a form in person, if you prefer).

And if you’re on Facebook – where West Seattle Blog has a lively group of friends as “WS Blog” – we’ve just created a WS Community Garage Sale Day page that you can “become a fan” of and participate in: Find it here.

Online registration form now available for West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day!

In addition to the special in-person deal we’re offering if you come by and sign up in person (bring cash or check) at the Gathering of Neighbors today, we’ve also just launched the online registration form – find it here.

Or, if you prefer to print out a form and mail it in with your check, here’s the form you can use to do that (don’t try to print out the online form linked above – its special configuration won’t work that way).

Any questions? Leave a comment here or e-mail garagesale@westseattleblog.com – thanks!

Registration is closed – now it’s time to talk Garage Sale Day!

We won’t have a final count till Monday’s mail rolls in (figuring that any forms postal-mailed on Friday may not make it in till then), but we know the number of sales registered for West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day on May 10 has passed 140 — this is going to be a blast! Registration IS closed; the online form is deactivated, and mail-in forms would have had to be postmarked Friday. Now it’s time to start shouting the news all around Puget Sound — we’ve already got a variety of announcements out but more to come — whether you’re a shopper or seller, how about you invite friends/relatives from other areas to come to West Seattle and have a blast garage-saling on May 10? Maps will be available online and at designated pickup spots (we will post the list over the weekend) May 8. And we’re now assembling packets for participants – those will go out in postal mail within a few days. More WSCGSD news later today!

P.S. If you want to get in the sale mood, the St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church 2-day rummage sale continues 9 am-3 pm today (and next Fri-Sat too).

WSCGSD hits 100, on 2nd-to-last day to register!

Our 100th registration just came in! You can still sign up your sale as long as you do it by tomorrow night. (P.S. We know some people have had trouble with the PayPal payment method – which takes major credit cards, you don’t have to be a PP member – so we’ll be contacting you for other options.) QUICK LINKS if you’re not in on West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day yet — Online registration form here, downloadable mail-in form here, list of locations to pick up a preprinted registration form here.

80 sales for WSCGSD ‘08, and still growing!

Another milestone. That’s an incredible number already, but we’re secretly (ok, not so secretly since we posted it here) hoping to hit 100 before registration closes this Friday night – think of how great that’ll sound in the promotion! We’ve already posted more than a dozen ads in on- and offline publications that are read citywide (and beyond), by the way. Go, garage salers, go!!!!

50 sales signed up so far!

The 4th annual West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day on May 10 is continuing to shape up as a great day to shop and sell – we’ve now hit 50 sales, from group-sale sites like Hotwire Coffee and C and P Coffee (stop in to sign up, if you don’t have enough room or items for your own sale), to organization/school sales like the Community School of West Seattle and Log House Museum and North Delridge Neighborhood Council, to dozens of great-sounding individual and block sales! Registration is open for one more week (till 11:59:59 pm Friday, April 25) and then we’ll start talking more about the big day itself, including the “best sign” and “most unusual item” contests, selling and shopping strategy, etc. To sign up your own sale right now (individual, school/business/organization, or block sale) — here are the quick links — Online registration form here, downloadable mail-in form here, list of locations to pick up a preprinted registration form here.

Update, including a place to go if you can’t have your own

We’ve passed 40 sales registered for West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day as of late morning today! Still continuing to find new ways to get the word out (do you have a place to display a poster, where we haven’t already asked to put one up? e-mail us and we’ll bring one over!). Also, Lora Lewis of Hotwire Coffee (which we’re always proud to note is West Seattle Blog’s inaugural sponsor) is going to have a space in the courtyard for a group sale – go to Hotwire to sign up; $10 donation requested for Furry Faces Foundation, an animal-advocacy group with strong West Seattle ties. If you’re ready to sign up your own sale (individual, school/business/organization, or block sale) — here are the quick links — Online registration form here, downloadable mail-in form here, list of locations to pick up a preprinted registration form here.

Garage sale do’s and don’ts, plus a sign-up update

First the update: We’re now past 30 sales for West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day on May 10! Plenty of time to sign up if you haven’t yet (and spread the word if you have; the more the merrier); the registration deadline is April 25. Quick links — Online registration form here, downloadable mail-in form here, list of locations to pick up a preprinted registration form here.

Meantime, we ust found this online, from somebody who’s written a book about garage sale’ing. “Garage Sale Do’s and Don’ts,” check it out here.

Let the sale registrations begin!

Our first registrations are in! We’ve also uploaded the printable form in case you want to print and fill it out and mail it in (deadline for us to receive it is April 25, please don’t wait till the last minute). So here are the important links:

Easy, simple, quick: Go here for online registration and payment

Rather mail it in? Download printable form to fill out and send with check

*Remember to have your 10-word (or less) ad ready when you register – this is how your sale will be described on the printable and downloadable map that will be available a few days before The Big Day.

(If you are new to the area or hadn’t heard of this before – we’ve had the question once today already – this is NOT one big sale at one location; this is dozens of sales (hey, hundreds if that many people sign up – it’s been more than 100 the past few years) all over West Seattle, on the same day, as a fun event to build community and draw visitors from elsewhere.)

Registration Day 1 is here – here’s what’s happening

Just in case you’re raring to go and checking this in the early moments of April 10:
Here it is – the first-ever online registration form for West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day — click here to start.
By 10 o’clock this morning, we will also have a Word doc here that you can download and fill out if you prefer to mail in your registration.
Or, if you want to pick up an already-printed registration form to mail in, we will have them at the businesses listed below by early afternoon. (Idea: Pick one up while you’re enjoying the West Seattle Art Walk 6-9 pm tonight – several Art Walk participants will have registration forms.)
Registration is open today through April 25; we have to cut it off then so we can start working on the maps and finishing the promotion and making sure this is THE MOST AWESOME WSCGSD EVER!
Glad you’ll be part of it.

Two days till registration opens!

We’ll be making the rounds with posters and sign-up forms on Wednesday, and the link for online registration will go up here and at West Seattle Blog on Thursday. The fees will be $12/individual sale, $20/organization (including schools and businesses), $30/block sale. This gets you in on a ton of promotion and a couple of cool contests (best sign, most unusual sale item). Can’t wait!

Rather register in person? Here’s where to get forms 4/10

We will have a link here and at West Seattle Blog for online registration (including fee payment), when registration for West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day 2008 opens next Thursday (April 10). In the meantime, if you prefer to pick up a form, fill it out and mail it in with a check, we will have forms available starting that same day (possibly a day earlier, we’ll let you know here at westseattlegaragesale.com if so) at these locations around West Seattle:

Capers (4521 California SW)
Click! Design That Fits (2210 California SW)
Dave Newman’s State Farm Insurance office (3435 California SW)
Dream Dinners (4701 41st SW, #110)
Fauntleroy YMCA (9140 California SW)
Garlic Jim’s Pizza (4520 California SW)
Hotwire Coffee (4410 California SW)
Illusions Hair Design (5619 California SW)
Phillip Plenkovich’s Allstate Insurance office (6417 Fauntleroy SW)
Sound Yoga (5639 California SW)
West Seattle Chamber of Commerce (3614 California SW)
West Seattle Christian Church (4400 42nd SW)
West Seattle Family YMCA (4515 36th SW)

If you choose to register by mail, please fill out the form as soon as possible after you get it and mail it in — we will also offer the form by download on this site and at West Seattle Blog, but online registration will be the quickest and easiest way to do it. More details here daily!

One week till registration starts for WSCGSD!

We are finalizing the list of places where you will be able to pick up a registration form in person if you would prefer to mail one in — that will be posted here tomorrow — we’ll probably drop off the forms (and put up some cool posters that are in development now) next Tuesday or Wednesday just to get a jump on things. MAY 10TH, SAVE THE DATE, SELLERS AND SHOPPERS!

WSCGSD registration opens April 10, 2008!

That’s when we will start accepting online signups (you will be able to get to a form from this site and from our main site at westseattleblog.com) and also forms by mail and dropoff (watch for a list of where you can get them). If you would like to be on a mailing list for a reminder when registration opens (and other handy info – we promise, no spam), please e-mail us at garagesale@westseattleblog.com … thanks!

Getting closer!

We are about to set the date for the open and close of registration. We also have received approval from the West Seattle Chamber of Commerce to have forms collected there for people who choose not to fill them out online. West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day mania is about to erupt!