Scout Fundraiser Yard Sale

In June we decided to hold a fundraiser for the scouts to raise some money for summer camps. We asked the ward members to donate anything they had and we went around and collected it from their porches. It was good for them to get rid of their unwanted stuff/junk, and it was good for us to be able to serve and help them to get rid of it. We completely filled up my garage with about everything you can imagine. We held the yard sale on a Friday night and the next Saturday and were able to get rid of quite a bit of stuff. Because of the amount of stuff that was left over we decided to hold it again the next weekend. I was fortunate (or not) to miss out on both of the weekends of the yard sales. I had a relay race the first weekend and was gone to scout camp with the Priests the second weekend. The other leaders did a great job though and overall we made about $1,500. Not too bad! I made three trips with my car full of leftover stuff to drop off at DI, and then have seven computer monitors that weren't sold and 12 huge garbage bags of clothes. I donated the clothes to a hispanic ward close by but still need to get rid of the computer monitors. Did you know DI won't take them and you have to pay the dump to take them as well? Our Bishop is the IT boss at Stores Online so he is going to take them and have them picked up to be recycled.