third on friday we have longer hours from nine in the morning until seven at night to accommodate the people who work over the years i said they couldn't come in earlier so they want to come so we stay until seven o'clock on friday and on saturday so friday is nine till three now scuse me friday is nine till seven saturday is nine till three and everyone is welcome to come and we ask you people ask us every year do we serve food or is there an entry fee to our garage sale there's no entry fee to our garage sale you come in you buy we don't ask you to pay to get in to buy this thing we ask you not to we don't serve food because this is a huge garage sale and we can't afford to have skills and food get over all of these these different tables and everything so we don't we don't supply any food but we have we have a wonderful parking area it's all been remarked so everybody knows how to get their cars in and out we're level and we're handicap up in the library we have christmas all the christmas decorations are in one classroom that children's toys and children's clothing infant clothing are in the classroom and depending on how much we are we get this year we might have another class because we keep expanding and expanding every year there's we always call this our giant garage sale and it is a giant garage sale and we people come from all over this western pennsylvania and west virginia area to shop and are still we've got a fantastic reputation through here we have built up over the years and we look forward to doing it slot of work that we have a lot of fun to and we have lots of people help i mean there's a probably a hundred people throughout the week before who come in and help to see these things set up and mark and put in the proper places the nice thing about having the garage sale now we have outfitted numerous college kids with blankets in utensils and pots and pans and small appliances and things that they take off to the valley brook and then come into st benedict that way but don't give up if you're going around in circles don't give up because eventually you'll see the steeple on the church and that's where we are and you know it will have  signs out and things like that too you didn't mention we do mention again what sort of items that you have at this garage sale oh we have all sorts of household items clothing adult children baby clothing we have made toys of all kinds stuffed animals boy and some of them are really cute too i bought one last year and we  videos tools if the men want to hammers anything like that my husband's in charge in another feller in charge of the electronics in the tool department all the other if you buy an electric saw the saws going to work and they check everything out just like if you buy a small appliance a coffee pot or a little sister toaster they all work and so we do have of wide variety there's something for everybody if you need it we have in speaking of kitchen we have dishes our kinds of dishes in different sets sets of twelve or to such a fourteen or full set we have glasses and coffee mugs and table where all of that that we can supply to you for your own use or to set up your joe that's going to college it's all there it's like one one stop shopping you can start in this department and go right through it pick up almost anything and everything that you would need to do it kiddos room away school we had a reasonable price we have a huge l department to be a way of blankets and pillows and dish towels and bath towels anything you want in the linen line we have a huge and the thing is every year we set the hall up the but they walk in those two hundred fifty people last year ran in the front door at nine o'clock on friday they spread out all going to the areas that they're interested in if they want to go to jewelry they go over to the separate jewelry department that we have or they'll go back to the linen department going to the adult clothing they know where they're going there are signs on the ceiling telling them where the departments are and they run to the department that they want to buy first they want to get the goodies the first time and the soon as they come in and it is just one fantastic hard sell and here's the thing people bring us things we have like paperback books a quarter apiece to hardback to fifty cents you know you can get enough books to take you through the winter if you like your if you're going to be going south as some of our names do they go south during the winter you can store up on your books at a reasonable price and enjoyed it now i will say some of our books if they happen to be a book with with recipes we mark those a little bit higher but that's normal to do that these are twenty five cents of hardbacks or fifty and we have a huge selection of books speaking of jewelry people come into the jewelry jewelry department we have a lot of crafters in the area and they'll look for beads whether they're together or if there's some loose speeds because they make ornaments different things out of there so they're always checking everything that we have but the nice thing is i think benedix the things that we get we get some new we get some very old things like this some people don't know what a pin cushion is but that's what that is and we delight when we open these things and we look at them and clean them up and put a price on and it's it's kind of fun for us and brings back some memories for us so these are little things and we don't go real big jacket we don't take big furniture no we can't handle big refrigerators and things like that but we can take and tables and and a little chest and things like that chairs things like that outdoor where we take a lot of at their door things you know and people love things for their garden leave and sell often enough there's something there for everyone at a price that you can really afford you know and that makes it even better that's right and they were mentioning some items that you had any items that you do not want  large furniture or appliances used sporting equipment bowling balls computers televisions any kind of electronic devices like that we cannot use encyclopedias you know a like the t v you can take them over to the township garage they'll take them very so just double check with the township and to get rid of those for we cannot take them one year they tell you what we did take we took two portable typewriters manuals and put on one end of a table and the kids came by what is this we know what a manual typewriter but these kids in there and they both had fairly good ribbons and so i put paper in and i showed the kids what this was what these things are what they did the kids had more fun playing take computers or anything big like that where we would be able to handle that we don't have the room for them to begin with and then you have to have the manpower as well to lift them or to deliver and we try to stay out of that is much  read we can what we hear of usually people can take with them or come we'll hold it and they can come back and pick it up after it's been paid for if we learned that lesson a long time know they're going to get a bargain they're going to get something good and they look forward to our garage sale we look forward to having them come in another thing about this even if it rains see we're not outside in a parking lot all our our clothing and everything were inside there would possibly be a few things for the garden out outside but most everything we have is put inside in the event that it would be a rainy time because we won't get it we're not going to call it off this is the time this is the day this is when it's going to happen whether it rains or not and so that's always an assurance for people that oh are they going to have it or not we are ahead in getting the date set and and getting the information out that when we're going to have it and people say well i'm going to be doing this rover will you take this will you take that and this goes on the entire year this isn't something that just started right at this week it goes on and on and on and so it takes a great deal of planning between the to get to the hall and to get the notices out to date and then to get th people not to bring their high thems and till from monday the weekend before the garage sale because we really do not have room to store if they wanted one to bring something today there's no room for it so you have to wait until the week of the garage sale and then bring it over to a brian hall and walk put it where palms and we'll put a tag on it and sell it well it's a very active parish you can't just bring things and drop it there because something else is going on there's something going on it's a bees all the time and so we take our turn but that's why it takes cooperation between the different groups to set time in the set t out items that are brand new that people bring in and make up a little display and we auction the chinese auction them off and there are people who really do want to buy tickets for the chinese so you never know what we're going to get at this point i don't know what we're going to have sometimes we've had a whole variety of cookie jars and you know it's just we've got to wait until we see what the people donate for us to sell and then we will have a chinese auction again right it's a fun thing to do there was a little girl that won last year and she won the year before so i'm really hoping to have bring this little girl back and i like to see her win something the third time in a row so wealthy time will tell how many baskets do you have an injury or just depends on which you've got four five six five at the most not too many we can't we can't d we have many many places that the things that do not sell we have trucks lined up synchronicity pass a lifeline washington missions  we have father takes a truck down to kentucky we reach out we don't just stay right here in our area we have branched out and things come from st benedict from the community of peters township in we see to it that we sell as much as we can and then those things that we can't sell we divide them up and we send them to these different places brings the truck up and they've been coming up for years for us and they will take some of the household items and different things that people in west virginia who really need the people back up on the hollers  they don't have a lot they get flooded out they live in trailers and whatever they could use a lot of the items that we don't sell so nothing goes to waste very little ever gets thrown away what we don't sell for the women or same friends extra interop still goes off to the other charities and a lot of people benefit from the generosity of the people who give us items right we've even had some  organization and use for some yet and yet we try to get anything that we get i mean that's the whole idea if people are willing to give us something to donate something to us and we have to turn around and be willing to whatever we can give them we can give you know we are trying to make money for st benedict the abbot for the women's club because we we do do a lot of things in the community and for other other organizations this is a fundraiser for us and this is how we do that but it goes it spreads out all over it just doesn't stay at st benedict it goes all over and that's the good part of it it's a had over in hill station i guess there was a flood over there several years ago and people needed blankets and pillows and things we had them at them you know right on the spot so  it's a worthwhile giant garage sale and we ask you to come and look around to see what you can find there's just you can't believe what we get the decorations are outstanding christmas decorations halloween decorations costumes people that would go in and spend a fortune for for a mask or something for a dollar you know and the kids have a great time they have they have a wonderful time we also carry shoes jackie shoes and boots and things like that and everything is marked and every everybody can try on their things right there we have a place for them to try new things on somebody donated a lot of guyand well the teenage girls came in and they knew the prom time was coming up in different form also they were going to go to all the ladies room which is filled with young girls trying on these lovely gals and they saved their parents a fortune by just buying them there now that doesn't say we're going to have gallons today this year but who knows and one year we had a lot of men's suits and one of the ladies is involved with working with the street homeless people in downtown pittsburgh and she said these men need suits to go for job interviews could i have any suits that you don't sell so that organization than time pittsburgh got because somebody brought in what ten or twelve men's suits that were still stylish they weren't from the forty's or fifty's they were still nice looking so it's so the ones we didn't sell she t one tie but we have ties and you can get a dollar attire two dollars a tie for tide me because somebody thirty thirty five forty dollars you know well that just finishes off that suit and that shirt and here's this nice tie for two bucks you know if you walk out feeling like hey look what i got you know anything it's a good thing it makes everybody brings everybody up a little bit everybody yes and you can always use a helping hand time and some of those young boys have to wear a tie some time and they take it off wherever it leant it leans in there goes thirty bucks right out the window you know so this is a good place to come in and buy a few of those things keep them safe they get we had a good time one of our men played the organ he played music we danced we were polka and we had a really good time without organ but then nobody really wanted to buy the organ however appalachian outreach was coming up from welfare truck and on their way up they got a phone call from a church in west virginia and these people asked them if they had i an organ in their inventory and they said no we don't we do not have an organ well apparently this church is organ was beyond repair well when these two gals wrote them down and walked into benedict hall i mean o'brian o hall sorry brian hall they walked in through the door and they saw that organ sitting there they said the lord works and strange way we had an organ that went to a church somewhere in west virginia that the people really needed it and in oregon did work because we had a ball playing and a zero six zero we do have a lot of fun so you never know what we're going to get in you never know who's going to need what we have that's true  usually garage sales are just blah like or something i mean you know they don't tell the story well we hide them it's not a flea market it's not a money market it's a garage sale in the items that we hear now we have already i have two high chairs sitting in a garage that were well over one hundred dollars in cost absolutely beautiful people they have them for one year two years we get them they're not even used i mean it they're perfect absolutely perfect somebody is going to be benefit by this kind of a gift because it's a marvelous gift for twenty five dollars you got a beautiful beautiful  chair and this is what we do we have a lot of children's items we had the sleep beds we have carriers we have all kinds of things from the time to the time the baby is an infant it goes all the way from newborn to college one of the things we yeah and we want to thank everyone who is planning on coming and we really hope to see you there and make sure you bring your wallet with you know spend a little time because the place is huge we've grown so much it's just not contained in one area now you really do have to visit the hallways the extra classrooms and if you pay attention to fines is jackie said in the very beginning we have one whole area that is  christmas and i mean we have christmas tree everything lights christmas tree decorations door decorations wreath all that kind of thing you can spend time looking and standing but at a reasonable cost would you say that's right well it's lessons all divided up like that yes and i think helen the signs up on the ceiling when i get that help so i mean we've always put the signs on the ceiling and like i said everything is in the same place every year right so you can find what you want when you when you work and people come in i have to tell you they come in for the jury because so many people lose an earring and they think well maybe they'll find something like that to match what they have and they they go through the jury we have plenty of jury and that seems to be a very hot spot with everybody you know a lot of people are making jewelry right from nine till seven in august the twenty third saturday from nine until three and by three o'clock in the afternoon we're a little tired so you know try to get there a little bit before that us thank you thank you very much for being here and telling us you know well you do everything which is wonderful because you not only helping peters you're helping the the coal country yes this is helped a lot of people that and i hope you listen to this and take advantage of it because it is a wonderful thing that these women are doing and women and men i mean everybody involved in th