We had the big sale of items from Radford Florist Saturday December 4. Actually it started on Thursday the 2nd with pre-sales to folks who knew about it and wanted to shop early and ended last Saturday with one person buying and removing the remainder. We had tons of very high quality new Christmas decor that was available at a steal. Tons of garland, greens sprays, table top trees, poinsettias. The biggest spenders were church women coming to pick up items to decorate their church. The sale moved right along on Saturday from 8AM-10AM when the parade started. After that there was a trickle until the snow started arounfd11:30 and then it pretty much halted. Nonetheless this was a huge success. We raised $800.50 through this sale at no cost to us.
Not only do we have Jeff Corbon and Curtis Graham at Radford City Florist to thank for the idea and the items--Thank you, thank you, Jeff adn Curtis--we also must thank Linton Leary, his son Sam, and the folks at New River Rental for providing a portable sign to advertise the event and four 8 foot tables which we desperately needed given all the items we had. Thank you , Linton and Sam.
The big job was cleanup. We had boxes and boxes to be broken down and taken to recycling, hunks of stuff on the floor to sweep up, and then vacuuming.
Thanks to Chris, my husband, who broke up boxes and got them to recycling on Friday while we were at food distribution, most of the big stuff was gone when we had to dive in. Kendra, Geena, and Kayla got the floor swept and vacuumed and got rid of the smaller boxes. We now look presentable again and we have $800.50 we didn't have before. Stay tuned for more hunger relief items.
