even it's gotten it's grown so large and people more or less expect certain things but some of our people now who've been coming back to help us year after year if they have something like let's say a sheet set or something like that they they put twin sheets down or queen's sheets down or it makes our job instead of wrapping everything and measuring and taking in everything that makes our job so much easier when they take the time tell us what it is you know so it it order and that makes everything a little bit neat and nice and we do we do have a reputation of having things set up in a very orderly way and we have grown over these thirteen years  and we keep our departments linens clothing books media all in the same place last year we had to open up some classrooms for our christmas items because we needed the space  well this year we're changing a little bit again because the area where we used to have our dog clothing has been taken up with kitchen and so we're moving the ball clothing into the area where we use their children's clothing and toys and the children's clothing the toys will be in a classroom too but they'll be signs there for people so they can find it departments that they like to go into but other than that the remarked how much easier it is just to look up and say ok this is where i want to go and you know and it really does it really does you know where they come in the front door which is right off parking lot of all in they walk counted them last year there were two hundred fifty adults standing in line waiting to get in and when they come in they go to the department that they're interested they go to the drawer they go back to lemons and they're there they know because that's what everybody wants something different and it's and you know it wasn't all thrown together no you know here's one of the nice things too we have a department like for dishes and glassware and and  kitchenware and pots and pans people come in there looking for things for their kids who are going off to school and we we supply them with a lot of a lot of items that they needn't go to buy at a regular store not only just the kitchen things but we have the betty we have we have just about everything that they would delight anything almost that you would need for a room in a in a college dorm we can much because we ask for good quality items known junk and we get good quality items it's everybody doing it for the kids like that it stays everybody a few nickels and dimes you know they're giving it to us for a good cause for all the things that we do with that money so it works both ways you know so now to get down to the nitty gritty and when will  twenty third and twenty fourth that's a friday friday the twenty third with the doors open at nine o'clock and we keep the garage sale running till seven o'clock in the evening for the people who work because over the years people would say well you know i can come on saturday in your clothes when i get home from work so the one year we tried it and it was well worth our effort to have a few people there in the evening so we will be open on friday the twenty third from nine crossroads with mary roach if you're coming from from mount lebanon you could also get off at the height of the sink or high school and come right up with mary roach to valley brook and come right into st bees but i think there's been a lot of a lot of upset know i won't even think of it but they i think a lot of people who do come to our garage sale they they're not that permille you're with this area and i think it's going to be and there will be a little note in there that says valley brook road is closed because that's how we get that's how we get our p r out is by notifying all the different parishes of certainly the ones here in peter's no but we have them that go out all over so we have to be sure to let people know that that valley brook is closed sixty labels for different one this is the one that we depend on to help us to do our other good works throughout the year so that's why it's very important in our community peter's has been great they support us in we get calls all the time can you can you take this or you take that well we are limited and we we can't take large refrigerators and stoves things like that we can't take those those kinds of things but we're open to most anything in the small area any kind of linens and dishware or anything like that but our people are so good they start  the all saying if you bring in something new you should get rid of something well they get really something that goes in a box marked for the women and garage sale and then sometimes we have a death in the family and people need to take those things and put them to good use and so we benefit by that and so this goes on not just for this week of the garage sale it goes on year round so and we do appreciate all of our donors as well as our volunteers but the people who make it possible also are the people who donate goods for us to s that helps them also because things can really get cluttered up everybody needs to clean out everything even the cleaning things out you know and then we benefit from it because we benefit from it somebody else is going to benefit from it  parking lot it's here the cap assessable you know we've been more than happy to to show you everything that we have and guide you through it and we hope you all will come and support sa