and it are going to be from nine am to seven pm on friday and nine am to three pm on saturday and that's that's the the end of it the best part is that we start collecting all these different items on the third of september ok that was me when a christian when you were going to start collecting some of it will be on the third of september man yes and not before not before and we brought some items here for if you like oh yeah because the garage sale that we hear had over the years for about eleven years now we have a kind of built a reputation of having a lot of well some new things that sparsely used and some new things and so we've brought some things today to show you that this garage sale covers many many different things we have some old jewelry there's another one still you can hold that one up and what happens a lot of time because people give us their last one earring or piece of jewelry that's fallen apart we have crafters come in and they buy those because they make me ornaments and things out of that and so we collect it's good things but you sparsely used things then we have things like barbie and ken and we also have clothes for them which is a collector's item if you care to look at those things as some of you might remember vyvian can and then we have like a newer i don't those those are nice place sparsely used you don't see any tears or any stuffing coming out of them so is that a pillow well you know what it's a pillow it's a new it's a nuisance actually  it takes up a lot of room but the kids can put them on their bed or they can put him over in a corner or they can put it down on the floor plop their heads out it if they choose you know to watch t v and there and these are kind of an interesting thing these are old records some are in spanish some are and i tell you but if you're taking those subjects and you listen to how it's actually spoken it's a very good thing to hear and then we have other records lowest you see those over there is several different kinds i don't know that the younger people would recognize those names but we have a ton of records and they take those in they take them now anything we get at the garage feels good we don't collect anything that is all torn worn dirty we'd have a reputation to keep up with and over the years we h said that we want on equality outings and that's what we have and that's what brings in the buyers black last year for instance when the door was open at nine o'clock on friday morning i counted the people there were two hundred  fifty people waiting in line when the parking lot and some politics to come into the garage sale for the first day and it is amazing they know exactly where to go to every year we keep all the apartments in the exact same they're interested in the tronics they know where to go to because there are signs posted from the ceiling along the walls telling the buyers were that so they just we keep it the same way every year so we don't have to retrain many people know where to go believe me one year i watched a fellow almost knock over an old lady move because it was going in the jewelry department first and he was born like me and the poor lady just stood there frozen because she's a know which direction the girl and he knew where he was going and he was going to be first in line for the goodies at the jury's department so it's this is a fun thing to do just i think the most fun i ever had was the first time i attended and worked and watched the people coming in it was like she said they were like on a track they knew exactly where they wanted to go came with laundry baskets and boxes cartons to fill up the on what kind of decoration we get all kinds of decoration christmas decorations halloween decorations in fact we get a lot of how when caution in fact issue here someone donated some old clothing and the old clothing is so old it will make me wonder for halloween costume and see that we have things for easter and we have things for st patrick's day there are things that come in for valentine's day so we keep all the holiday tables fairly close to each other we have books we have tanks we have  records across the aisle from those things we keep the crafts we keep the sewing materials we also collect and sell house plants it's it's it started out just as a fluke one year you know and each year we've been getting a few more and they all go the day they all go yeah i have a funny story some of you may not know the father donna talley our previous priest used to wear a certain sweater this particular day he had taken it off and hung it on iraq and he left well all the clothes started to command and his sweater got priced he came back to a i'll take that one that will be in our ryan hall which is the part of our former old church which is now called pope benedict center but we managed to get everything into a brian hall st benedict we have two fundraisers during the year and what we try to do is we reach out to two other other people with meals on wheels or the washington missions and things like this we we try we're part of the community but we're also as a the parish of st benedict the abbot and fifty years now is a is a long time and we're breaking this jagging this gigantic garage sale the only thing we don't do is we do not sell food we don't do that we don't have any room to examine ice cubes and we can't use it because the whole area is is that it's the system you know and you know c or the access to a brian hall it's so level i mean it's handicapped assessable adequate driving hardening barking there's no steps or anything for anybody to worry about and i think that's that's a good thing you can come in and shop and browse and you don't have to worry about going up and down stairs or anything like that so it's really a very nice place to go and a patient and you usually can find lots of good things i think we have haven't we over that we take them and we buy them and we go home with something i benedict actually everyone men eighteen and older in the parish is eligible to be a member of our group they just have to come to the meeting they get their name in the block the first time they come to a meeting and typically our first meeting isn't until the third week of september so we haven't even had our first meeting yet but all these ladies will come out and sort and pack and place and price this entire week it's really a nice event because the people who can't come and price and do that the clock if they can't caulk we had one lady who has since passed away she always shined all of our  and she couldn't come help that she could do that at home when so help most of the women help in one way or another and often in more than one way the job for everybody has everything and well we won't turn down anyone clearly means the workers are provided with lunch and dinner because we start working about nine o'clock in the morning each day setting up the score itself and we work through until five eight o'clock at night so we have to have lunch and then there are some people stay the whole time so we help women who volunteer in the make to assholes in whatever you name it we who are always long but this food is only for the workers so if somebody wants a come for a initially as i believe the christian mothers in others and evolved into the women of st benedict so officially next year will be our jubilee and we hope to celebrate with some fun things to do and will then we leave paid to  and we were looking for a fundraiser and i said i have a suggestion and i suggested the garage sale and i didn't even know nancy again but i don't remember how we did it but nancy  sales for korea and more and when they had mentioned garage sale for st benedict i jumped on it i thought well that may be something i can contribute to you know how that had how that happened yeah yeah yeah yeah but it has grown it has grown so much and we can't even begin to tell you the only thing that we can't do we cannot store things people ask us all the time when somebody is going to convince or move move they'll say oh well can we bring this over and store it for the garage sale and the answer to that is no we don't have storage so that kind of causes a little bit of problem the other thing is we don't take big items we don't take like refrigerators and things like that we would not have the means to take and deliver them or things like that so we keep everything by cycles yes things that we can handle it's just we can't take anything large we don't have any place to put it you know so we depend on those smaller things our appliances small appliances and you know another thing that we've done over the years and jackie you know about this kids that are going off to school we get we get microwaves we get toasters we get all the good things good things and mothers have come in and they've got dishes and table where an odd glasses and mugs mugs more things that the kids can take and so what if they break them if it's ok because they're getting them at a very good price and it's a very good item it's not on the views item so that's one way of of helping with your kids kiddos that are going off to college and start a new apartment some changes getting a new partner etc that's another one yeah yeah yeah so there's all kinds of things if you never been to this garage sale you are to take a few minutes and come i think you would be amazed the things that we get every year jacki and i worry what are we going to get next year i mean we always think well we've gotten so much where's it all coming from well somehow or another it gets it gets there and we get people from all over the city not just on our parish do you know one virginia yes yasser jr and that's a lot of we have when we have so much we don't sell everything that we have in the hall so what we do is  the jubilee soup kitchen in pittsburgh several pro life organizations will get the baby clothes in the baby items and then there's another organization down in appalachian kentucky that takes less the one items more interviews they got to see it so hopefully someone got a job because of our giving and unfold suit them and that's not all we have shoes we have shoes we have the shirts we have the ties we have everything all the assets are easy to go with it you know and we've said it before and it bears repeating i think these things are not these are not terribly used things these are great reputation for quality and items we do and we already sense it which is great and everybody should be interested in doing something and when they get something they know it will be good that it will be j check every electrical appliance i mean we have men there that will make sure that they plug everything in like sure that it works the properly so that's a good thing and you didn't mention the the raffle the that was my next question you're getting  auction a lot of them are new things we get things from different tables throughout the silver things dealer saying we usually have enough product that we can make themed baskets and we do the chinese auction for