2024 West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day map is ready!

Two formats to see all the listings – the clickable online version here, the printable PDF version here. Check back for updates as the pre-Garage Sale Day week continues. And get ready for a big day of person-to-person recycling, treasure-finding, neighbor-meeting, etc. on Saturday, May 11!

West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day is on for 2022

Just in case you missed the announcement – Saturday, May 14, 2022, West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day WILL be back this year! Registration will start Monday, April 4th.

No Garage Sale Day for 2021, hopeful for 2022

If you missed the announcement on our main site West Seattle Blog – for a second year, we’ve had to cancel WSCGSD. Just not safe enough to invite thousands of people to mingle at hundreds of sales. We are hopeful for 2022! – Tracy & Patrick

No West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day for 2020

Inevitable but still sad – we have to cancel 2020’s West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day, which would have been the 16th annual WSCGSD. Even if our state’s stay-home order ends in early May, even if gatherings are allowed again, there’s no way it would be a good idea to invite thousands of people to come visit for the day. (And then there’s our current state of bridgelessness ..) So here’s hoping for next year, when the second Saturday in May will be the 8th.

2019 West Seattle Community Garage Sale registration begins!

As of this morning, registration has opened for the 2019 West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day, and a dozen sales are already signed up! The big day is 9 am-3 pm Saturday, May 11th – if you want to start your sale earlier and/or end it later, just be sure to include that info in the “ad” with your registration, so that we can include it in the listing. Ready to sign up your sale? Go here.

2019 WSCGSD registration starts Wednesday!

We’ll be opening registration for this year’s West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 … the big sale day itself is May 11th. Check back on Wednesday for the link!

Yes, the map is ready for 2018 West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day!

Just a quick note for starters – the map IS ready! The printable version, with all 300+ listings, is here; the clickable/zoomable online version is here! One week to sale day – more to say later!

REGISTRATION IS OPEN! Now welcoming sale signups for West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day 2018

The big day BEFORE the big day is here … we have just opened signups for West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day 2018. This is the 14th annual WSCGSD and sales of all sizes are welcome – individual residence, business/organization/school, or block sale. We keep registration open for about three weeks so there’s plenty of time to decide if you’re participating and to register, but please don’t procrastinate, because once it’s closed, it’s closed – creating the maps and sale list takes some time! Ready to sign up? Got your up-to-20-word “ad” ready? Then go here.

ALMOST REGISTRATION TIME! Signups start April 4th

West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day is only a month and a half away and so it’s almost time to start signups. We will open registration – with links here and on our main site West Seattle Blog – on Wednesday, April 4th, as early in the day as we get the system going. So check back then! The big day itself, of course, is the second Saturday in May, as always – this year that’s Saturday, May 12, 2018. And the map will be available one week in advance, printable and clickable versions. Get ready for a fun day when West Seattle becomes the epicenter of person-to-person recycling!

Clothes for the Cause trailer at Alki Elementary all weekend

Continuing our spotlight on donation drives organized in connection with West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day 2017 (coming up this Saturday, May 13th!), for anyone from shoppers who want to buy and donate items, to sellers with leftovers – the Clothes for the Cause trailer will be at Alki Elementary all weekend, for dropoffs. Here’s the announcement:

Alki Elementary is partnering with Clothes for the Cause for a Clothing Drive Fundraiser on the weekend of the West Seattle community garage sale.

Donations will benefit Alki Elementary to purchase Emergency Preparedness Kits and supplies for the students of Alki.

The Clothes for the Cause trailer will be at Alki Elementary School (3010 59th Ave SW) in the staff parking lot behind the school (south side of the school) on Saturday, May 13th and Sunday, May 14th.

Bring the bags to us at your convenience on those days or text 206-954-0828 to arrange pick-up that weekend.

What can we take?

– CLOTHING any kind/gently used;
– PAIRED SHOES any kind/gently used;
– TOWELS bath, kitchen;
– SHEETS, BLANKETS, QUILTS;
– BACKPACKS;
– CURTAINS/DRAPERY;
– PURSES, BELTS synthetic/leather;
– TABLECLOTHS;
– PLACEMATS;
– STUFFED ANIMALS

Thank you!! Alki Elementary PTA

After the sales: Stop ‘n’ Shop in The Junction

Continuing our look at who’s welcoming donations after Saturday’s West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day closing bell (figurative!) at 3 pm, this is from Stop ‘n’ Shop Thrift Store at the Senior Center of West Seattle in The Junction (4217 SW Oregon):

The West Seattle Senior Center’s Stop ‘n Shop would be thrilled to take your unsold garage sale merchandise after the sale day has ended. We’ll be staying open late until 6:00 pm and will have extra helpers ready to unload your vehicle from our back alley. Your unsold merchandise pays for many great programs and benefits for our wonderful local senior population. Thank you in advance!

The alley is off the south side of SW Oregon just east of California SW.

Book drive in conjunction with West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day 2017

Today we’re spotlighting the donation drives that have been organized in connection with West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day this year. First: A book drive to benefit schools:

One of the easiest ways to motivate students to read and learn is to have books with topics that kids are excited about reading and learning from! Your donated books will make a difference! Over the past three years, West Seattle schools received more than 5,000 books for motivating and exciting students as an important part of education.

We will donate religious-theme books to religious schools in West Seattle, and elderly books to Providence. We don’t want violent or sexual-themed books.

West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day is a tremendous source of books. We are asking people who have left-over books from their yard sale this May 13th (as well as anyone who has excess books), to please donate your books to West Seattle schools. And for those who donated in the past, Thank you!

You can drop off books at any of these locations through May 26th.

A. West Seattle schools (Monday thru Friday only):

1. Denny International Middle School, 2601 SW Kenyon St, 252-9000. Drop off at the front desk, from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Attention: Librarian (Denny will take books all year.)

2. Sanislo Elementary, 1812 SW Myrtle St, 952-8320. Drop off at the front desk from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm. Attention:Kim

B. West Seattle Businesses:

1. We will have a truck marked with a large sign “Donate Books to West Seattle Schools” in the West Seattle Junction near the Northwest Center truck (off 44th SW between Alaska and Edmunds) from 2 to 6 PM on May 13th only.

Note: We will have 40 coupons good for up to 4 free Bowling Games at Roxbury Lanes for anyone who donates 20 or more hard-cover books.

2. Roxbury Bowling Lanes, 2823 SW Roxbury, 206-935-7400, from 11 AM to 7 PM. … Note: Roxbury Lanes, as part of its support for the Seattle community, will give a certificate good for 4 free bowling games for any book donation over 20 hardcover books.

3. Hotwire Online Coffeehouse, 4410 California Avenue SW … Note: Hotwire Coffee, as part of its support for the West Seattle community, will give a certificate good for $1 off any purchase at Hotwire to the first 25 people who drop off 10 or more hardcover books.

We want to thank Denny Principal Jeff Clark, Denny Librarian Jeff Treistman, and Dearborn Librarian Craig Seasholes (formerly at Sanislo Elem) for their efforts to distribute books to their students. For further info, call Mr. Potratz at 932-3007.

2017 REGISTRATION: West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day signup time!

As promised, we have opened registration for this year’s West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day – coming up on Saturday, May 13, 2017, 9 am-3 pm (you can start your sale early and/or late but that six-hour window is the “official” window for all). This is the 13th annual WSCGSD!

If you’re planning a sale, here’s where to go to register – any time you’re ready (signups will continue for about three weeks; we usually don’t set the exact end date until we see how things are going). Same classifications and fees as the 10 years we’ve been coordinating this. Before you register, be ready with your up-to-20-word sale listing – think about what you’re selling that’s most popular and/or most unusual. Any questions, garagesale@westseattleblog.com or our 24/7 hotline at 206-293-6302. We’ll be updating here and on WSB (including any multi-seller sites that offer space for people who have small sales/no place to host a sale – if your venue is planning on that, please let us know ASAP)!

WEST SEATTLE COMMUNITY GARAGE SALE DAY 2017: Registration soon!

If you’re here looking for information on West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day 2017 – good news! As always, the big day is the second Saturday in May, and this year, that’s Saturday, May 13, 2017. We always open registration in early April, and for this year, we’ve set the date – April 5th. Probably in the afternoon or evening, so when we’re ready to get going, we’ll post the link here and on our main site, West Seattle Blog. In the meantime, start thinking about the 20 words you’ll use to highlight your sale. Unusual item(s)? Popular item(s)? Offering refreshments? Catchy name for the sale? Or … ?

ABOUT WSCGSD: This will be the 13th annual West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day – tenth one coordinated by WSB, after its founders at a community-connection nonprofit called Megawatt presented it for the first three years, then deciding to disband and seeking someone else to take it over. It’s not one big sale, but rather many sales of all sizes, all over the peninsula, depending on who signs up and where they are – individual homes and apartments, block sales, schools, nonprofits, businesses, etc. The official hours are 9 am-3 pm, but you can start early and/or end late (and if you do, put it in your sale ad), as long as you are open those six hours that we promote for all sales. All the registered sellers’ information and locations goes into a map package that we make available one week before WSCGSD so you can start planning!

HAPPY WSCGSD 2016! Lists, lists, we have lists …

It’s here! West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day 2016 has arrived!

9 am-3 pm, 320+ sales are happening all over the peninsula.

Online map: Get it here
Printable/downloadable map: Get it here (19-page PDF)

And of course, we have lists:

Benefit sales: Go here

Mega-multi-seller sales: #193/#194 Hotwire/Ginomai and #28 C & P Coffee (which says it’s starting at 7 am)

Block sales: #121, #142, #157, #182

Sales offering lemonade: #45, #50, #55, #99, #155, #167, #172

Sales mentioning music equipment/instruments: #47, #93, #138, #265, #266, #271, #315

Sales on the edges: #255 (northernmost), #13 (southernmost), #290 (westernmost), #316 (easternmost)

Sales with plants: #29 (Solstice Park P-Patch), #38, #63, #71, #78, #115, #208, #299, #323

Sales at retirement centers: #163 (Brookdale Admiral Heights), #99 (Brookdale West Seattle), #105 (Daystar)

Sales with unusual items: #165 (huge elephant collection), #79 (500 vinyl records), #78 (International Flight Attendant’s lifetime collections), #235 (brass items), #122 (old movie cameras), #44 (English saddle), #315 (clawfoot tub), #117 (commercial freezer)

We could go on … but you can also explore the list yourself. (For example, we started to make a list of sales with tools, but more than 40 came up, including #312, at the renowned West Seattle Tool Library, which was stocked in part with WSCGSD finds way back in its infancy.)

More updates once things get going!

THE BENEFIT SALES!

Want to browse a list that shows who’s raising money for who/what during this Saturday’s West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day? Here it is.

HERE IT IS! See the online map for West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day 2016

330 sales right now on this year’s WSCGSD map – and you can be among the first to get a look at the map by going here.

330+ sales for West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day 2016!

Lots of sales signed up at the last minute before registration closed last night (Wednesday, April 27) just before midnight – so it’s going to be another spectacular West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day of selling, shopping, and meeting your neighbors. 9 am-3 pm Saturday, May 14th … the map will be out a week ahead of time … but what we’ll be working on later today (Thursday) is checking the list of sellers and, within a day or so, contacting anyone for whom we have questions (fee not paid, missing “ad” text, that sort of thing), so if you’ve signed up your sale, PLEASE keep an eye on the e-mail address you used, as we have to get this part of the process locked down within a few days. (And if you have a question, please e-mail us at garagesale@westseattleblog.com.) Thank you! Just 16 days to go!

Wednesday night is your deadline for West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day 2016 registration!

Just three weeks now until West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day 2016 on May 14th, and almost 200 sales are signed up! We’ve set the registration deadline for this Wednesday night, April 27th, 11:59 pm – by then, signups will have been open for more than three weeks, ample time for the word to get around. Then, we start working on the map, which as always will be available in clickable online and printable/downloadable PDF versions, one week BEFORE sale day. Having a sale? Not signed up yet? Do it now – just go here. And if you have problems/questions, please e-mail us at garagesale@westseattleblog.com – thanks!

2016 WSCGSD registration is under way!

With just under six weeks until the 12th annual West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day on May 14th, you can register your sale now!

The form is here.

If you’ve been part of WSCGSD in past years – we haven’t changed anything except expanding the word limit for your listing on the map to 20 words – the field in the online version has lots of room, but the printable/downloadable PDF is the reason we need to set a limit. The fees are the same as they’ve been since we took over WSCGSD in 2008; they cover our production and promotion costs (and anything left over supports parent site West Seattle Blog‘s ongoing operations as West Seattle’s 24/7 news source).

*Sale day is Saturday, May 14, 2016.

*Official sale hours: 9 am-3 pm, but if you want to start yours earlier/end it later, that’s up to you – you can say that in your “ad” text (but no late starts/early ends, though, it’s important to cover the official time period – thanks!).

*Registration gets you on the map, which is published here and on West Seattle Blog – as well as promoted/advertised regionally and in our social-media channels – with clickable and printable (PDF) versions. The map is ready a week in advance and assigns each sale a number, which you can use for cross-reference and for your own promotion (“come see us, we’re sale #33!”), etc.

*Same 3 sale categories: Individual, Organization/Business/School, Block Sale.

If you have a small amount of stuff to sell and/or no place for a sale, check in at Hotwire Online Coffeehouse ASAP for a free spot in the Hotwire courtyard or Ginomai across the alley. There’ll be one general map listing for Hotwire; if you sell there, you’re still welcome to buy your own (optional) mention on the list via the form above – just mention Hotwire/4410 California SW as the sale address.

P.S. We haven’t set the end date for registration yet – we usually wait to see how things are going – but we keep signups open for at least three weeks, so there’s plenty of time for you to decide whether to jump in.

Registration for 2016 West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day opens on April 4th!

Two months away from this year’s edition of West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day – May 14, 2016 – and we’ve decided to open registration on April 4th. So check back that day for the registration form – and have fun in the meantime getting ready to sell and/or shop!

Because you’ll get thirsty on WSCGSD …

We’ve already mentioned that more than half a dozen sales promise lemonade. Here’s one more option, a Gatewood fundraiser for the earthquake-devastated people of Nepal:

Tagging onto WS Community Garage Sale Day tomorrow, kids from 5+ families in our neighborhood will be holding a bake sale / lemonade stand Saturday morning 9 am-noon to benefit Nepal SEEDS, a nonprofit organization working in villages in Nepal. Our friend and West Seattleite Cris Miller has been working with Nepal SEEDS for years and is on their board. They are in major fundraising mode to assist in earthquake relief and re-building in the villages they work in. Stop by for a treat and support a very worthy cause! The kids will be waving you down in the 7800 block of California Ave. SW, between Portland and Kenyon.

Now just TWO days to West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day 2015!

Sunshine is still in the forecast – warm, too (high in the upper 70s) – so our tradition of perfect garage-saling weather continues. If you are somehow just finding out about this, Saturday, May 9th, is the day, 9 am-3 pm, 340+ sales of all sizes all over West Seattle!

Both the online map and printable map can be found here.

Lists we’ve published:
*Nonprofit/benefit sales
*Trivia from this year’s lineup
*Unusual items
*Memorable descriptions

Later today – block sales/multi-seller sites!

Also – for sellers and for people who might want the fun of shopping AND the fun of donation – our page listing “who’s accepting leftovers/donations” is now up and running. Wide array this time – dropoff, pickup, some open Sunday and beyond.

P.S. Any last-minute cancellations will be noted on the online map, and we will mention the sale #’s here too so that if you have printed out the downloadable version, you can scratch them off. So far, only two since the downloadable version went live – the online map is updated but for the printed version, please scratch out #42 and #219.

2 weeks until the biggest West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day ever!

Saturday, May 9th, will be the 11th annual West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day and the biggest one ever. By the time registration closed Thursday night, more than 320 sales had signed up! All sizes, from individual homes to organizations/schools/businesses and multi-seller sites (including WSB sponsors Hotwire Online Coffeehouse and C & P Coffee Company), to block sales around the peninsula. WSB has coordinated WSCGSD since its fourth year (2008); here’s our update on what happens now:

*We are finalizing the list so we can make the map, which debuts on May 2nd so shoppers have a week to plan ahead – the clickable and printable/downloadable versions will be featured here and on westseattleblog.com.

*If you’re a seller, please check that you got both receipts, the confirmation from us AND the registration-fee receipt from PayPal (which would be via our LLC name, A Drink of Water and a Story Interactive). If you had problems paying, please e-mail us at garagesale@westseattleblog.com if you don’t hear from us first.

*We’ll be mailing (e- or postal- depending on what you marked on the registration form) info packets to sellers, including the “official participant” sign you are welcome to use with your signage.

*If you need to cancel your sale, please call us – 206-293-6302 – by May 1st so we can take you off the map. After that, last-minute cancellations can be taken off the online map, but not the printable/downloadable version.

*In sale updates over the next week-plus, we’ll have a poster file available for anybody who wants to put one up at their school, workplace, wherever – we promote WSCGSD regionally, and have heard of shoppers coming from hours away, but your help in spreading the word will be awesome. The easiest web address to share is westseattlegaragesale.com, though the map will be here too (and will have a special “tab” under the sunset header).

*If you’re a prospective shopper – watch for the map starting May 2nd, and whether you’re just going to walk around your neighborhood and see who’s selling what, or planning a wider expedition, get ready for a great day. Note that some sellers might start earlier or end later than the 9 am-3 pm window on May 9th – if they provided that information, it’ll be in their “ad” info accompanying the map.

ALSO: In years past, we’ve published info from nonprofits making special arrangements for sellers to donate leftovers, and/or inviting people to shop for potential donations of certain items the nonprofit needs, so that WSCGSD can have great community ripple effects beyond the fun of buying/selling. Any org thinking about either of these, please e-mail garagesale@westseattleblog.com ASAP so we can discuss. Thanks!

24 hours to sign up for West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day 2015

Another BIG West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day is in the works – 280 sales on the list/map now, and 24 hours left to register – the deadline is 11:55 pm Thursday (April 23). If you’ve been mulling it over and think you want to give it a try, please sign up now so you don’t miss the cutoff – just go here. If you’re not selling, get ready to shop, shop, shop on Saturday, May 9th, 9 am-3 pm, all over West Seattle (the map will be ready for your perusal one week in advance).

REGISTRATION IS ON! 2015 West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day – time to sign up

We opened registration late last night for the 11th annual West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day – which is set for Saturday, May 9, 2015 – and 20 sales are already on their way to the map! If you’re planning a sale, sign up now – here’s the official online form.

One week until registration opens for 2015!

Just a quick mention that registration for this year’s West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day (May 9, 2015) is one week away – we’ll open signups on Wednesday, April 1st. Check back then!

Go shop Greenwood this Saturday!

One week after West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day, it’s a community GSD with even-deeper roots – the inspiration for WSCGSD, we’re told – the big day in Greenwood. More than 100 sales, 9 am-3 pm on Saturday, May 17th. Details here!

Hours away! West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day is almost here

We’ve been watching the forecast all day … and right now it’s looking dry. Might not be the brilliant sunshine of the past few West Seattle Community Garage Sale Days, but hey, with so much rain this year, just having it take a break until oh, say, Saturday evening, will be great.

One more reminder that you can find the maps here – note there have been a couple last-minute cancellations, still leaving us with 282 sales as of this writing, biggest WSCGSD yet! Remember you can search the online map (follow that link) by clicking the blue word “Search” near the top right, and then using the dropdown (which defaults to “name”) to choose “description,” entering your search term(s), and then looking for a list of sales alongside the map that have what you want!

Another option for donations during/after WSCGSD

The Shop ‘n’ Shop Thrift Shop below the Senior Center of West Seattle wants you to know:

During and after the West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day, the West Seattle Senior Center’s Stop n Shop Thrift store will be taking donations of any unwanted and unsold garage sale merchandise during extended business hours of 10-7 pm. The Stop n Shop Thrift shop will have extra volunteers on staff to help you unload your unsold items so you don’t have to drag them back into your homes! All proceeds from donated items help to fund the Senior Center’s many wonderful programs and opportunities for our local seniors. Please consider us before you put all that unwanted stuff back into your garage. Just pull up out front or back, we’ll do all the rest. Thank you!

Out back would be the alley running south of Oregon between California and 42nd.

Stop by West Seattle High School (sale #69) on Saturday, sign up for WS 5K!

An extra reason to stop by the West Seattle High School fundraising sale on WS Community Garage Sale Day this Saturday (May 10th) – you can sign up for the West Seattle 5K, coming up Sunday, May 18th, 9 am on Alki, raising money for the WSHS PTSA to help the school. WSHS is at 3000 California SW.

Printable map now available!

It’s a 17-page PDF, so consider printing double-sided – get it here. And the online map is headquartered on our parent site West Seattle Blog – see it here.

Meantime, please note the added tabs to new pages, all showcasing nonprofit tie-ins for the big day! More updates to come, now that we’re just three days away.

The online map for West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day is live!

It’ll have its own page here on the WSCGSD site shortly but in the short run – see it here. Printable version to follow in a day or two. 

One week to West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day! See the map here later today; book donation drive already under way

One week from now, hundreds will be selling, thousands will be shopping, from Duwamish Head to Brace Point to White Center to Highland Park, on the 10th annual West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day. As promised, you’ll be able to see the map here later today – and it will include the sale numbers, so sellers can start telling everyone they know to come see them at sale # (etc.). We’re also e-mailing the “packets” to sellers this morning, with various info, and we’re post-office-bound with hard-copy packets for the handful of the sellers who requested that version. 

WSCGSD has also come to be a day of generosity, as sellers donate unsold/unwanted items to nonprofits, including longtime official WSCGSD partner Northwest Center and recently added partner WestSide Baby, among others. New this year, a book drive for local schools, spearheaded by Denny International Middle School – and book dropoffs are under way even now – here’s a message from Denny’s principal Jeff Clark:

<blockquote>Motivating and exciting students is an important part of education at Denny International Middle School and the other schools in West Seattle. One of the easiest ways to motivate students to read is to have books they are excited about reading. We are seeking donated books to help us to match each student to many appropriately-leveled high-interest books. Your book donation would help us with our efforts.

How You Can Help: You can drop off books at any of these locations:

1. We will have a truck marked Denny Middle School in the West Seattle Junction across from Junction True Value from 3 to 6 PM on May 10th.

2. Hotwire Coffee – 4410 California Avenue SE, any time during open hours thru May 18th . … Note: Hotwire Coffee, as part of its support for the West Seattle community, will give a certificate good for $1 off any purchase at Hotwire to the first 25 people who drop off 10 or more books.

3. Bank of America, West Seattle Branch, 4001 SW Alaska St, 358-2230, from 10-6 M-F, Sat 10-1, thru May 18th.

4. Roxbury Bowling Lanes, 2823 Roxbury St, 935-7400, from 11 AM to 7 PM, thru Sunday, May 18th … Note: Roxbury Lanes, as part of its support for the Seattle community, will give a certificate good for two people for two free games of bowling for any book donation over 20 books.

5. Denny International Middle School, 2601 SW Kenyon St, 252-9000. Drop off at the front desk, from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM Monday to Friday, thru Friday, May 16th.

Some books may be more suitable for older or younger readers. We plan to sort the donated books and find appropriate places for them, including local elementary schools, Chief Sealth International High School, and the West Seattle Senior Center.

Thank you very much for you book donations to help the scholars of West Seattle Schools!</blockquote>

This information is also in the packet going to sellers and will be mentioned on the map pages too, here and on WSB. 

 

8 days to go! Looks like we have 280+ sales for the 10th annual West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day

Mapmaking is in its final stages, after we proofread all 280+ listings. Starting Friday (as in, hours from now) we will roll out some final info – from how you can participate in donation drives on West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day, to collection drives post-sale, to the info packets that we’ll send to participants. It’s all about logistics now – including your help in making sure friends and family know about it, so they can come wander West Seattle’s miles of sales on Saturday, May 10th. Check back here for updates, and watch WSB too! Getting closer!

Three days to register – 190 sales on the list so far!

Twenty days until the 10th annual West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day arrives on Saturday, May 10th – and we’re counting down to the registration deadline this Wednesday night (11:59 pm, to be precise). 190 sales are registered already – add yours by going here. After registration ends, mapmaking begins, and the free map/guide will be available here on May 3rd.

UPDATE – If the registration form does NOT take you to PayPal, our apologies, there is apparently a sudden glitch – the form company is troubleshooting but in the meantime, try this alternate link, which should work.

Update: 90 sales for West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day 2014

Another shopping-and-selling extravaganza is in the works for Saturday, May 10th, with 90 sales now on the list for the 10th annual West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day! You in? Go here to sign up.

2014 registration begins!

Just opened at 8:41 pm Monday, March 31st. Here’s the form.

Countdown to registration for 2014! And other notes

We’re still on track to start signups Monday (March 31st) for the 10th annual West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day. Time TBA – we’re hoping by noontime, but sometimes it takes until evening to get the form bugs worked out. When we’re ready, we’ll have the link here and on West Seattle Blog. Two other notes:

Lora Swift of Hotwire Online Coffeehouse says they’ll have a group sale site again this year for those who don’t have enough stuff and/or enough room for a sale of their own. Sign up through Hotwire starting Monday.

In case you want to share photos and updates while enjoying WSCGSD as either a shopper or a seller (or maybe both!), we are going to use a social-media hashtag this year – Twitter and Instagram primarily, but since Facebook has stuck a toe into the hashtag waters, you can try there too. It’ll be #wsgaragesale … we’ll see how it goes.

P.S. Big sale in West Seattle THIS WEEKEND – benefiting South Seattle Community College Preschools – a consignment sale of kids’ items, with 100-plus participants, 9 am-1 pm Saturday (March 29th) at the VFW Hall in The Triangle (36th/Alaska). 

Registration for the 10th annual West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day starts on March 31st!

Two weeks until we open registration for this year’s WSCGSD (which is 9 am-3 pm May 10th, always the second Saturday in May). Stand by for more!