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Pre-Sale (prices doubled) - Friday, Sept. 13, 2024 - 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Regular Sale (prices as marked) - Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024 - 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

About the Rummage Sale
For more than 20 years, the ORUUC rummage sale has provided residents of Oak Ridge and surrounding areas with the opportunity to purchase household essentials, furniture, clothing, and other items at an affordable cost. The rummage sale also allows church members to donate their unneeded items in a way that benefits the church and the wider community while giving those items a new life rather than adding them to a landfill. In the process, the rummage sale builds relationships and community within the congregation as we work together to fulfill these goals.

Here’s a list to help you start putting things aside to donate for the upcoming Rummage Sale on Friday, Sept. 13 (Pre-Sale) & Saturday, Sept. 14 (Main Sale)

We’ll gratefully accept the following items in resalable condition:

  • Clothing & Linens: Washed, no tears, stains, mildewed, or strong odors from cigarettes, pets or moth-balls. It would be helpful to fold clothing and put in clean trash bags.

  • Upholstered Furniture & Area Rugs: No significant tears, no stains, no mildew, or strong cigarette or pet odors.

  • Wood or Solid Furniture: Not broken or badly dented or water damaged, and not missing any vital parts. Minor dents or scratches are acceptable.

  • Televisions: Flat screens, still in good working condition, less than 5 years old, with no missing nobs or buttons. Minor dents or scratches are acceptable. No big projection TVs or consoles.

  • Electronics: Still in good working condition stereo components and speakers, computers only with flat screen monitors.

  • Appliances: Only small, still in good working condition such as toasters and microwave ovens, mixers, etc. No missing knobs or buttons. Minor dents or scratches are acceptable.

  • Miscellaneous Items: Toys, tools, music instruments, patio furniture and décor items, knickknacks, books (no school textbooks or magazines please,) artwork, clean area rugs, dishes, pots/pans, shoes, antiques, and jewelry.

Things we are unable to accept:

There wouldn’t be a Rummage Sale without our volunteers and your generous donations! But you can help us greatly reduce work for our volunteers by allowing us to decline some items that we cannot sell in our sale. Your help is needed to dispose of items not in resale condition with your waste services.

  • Anything that is wet from rain or floods, etc. or otherwise damaged

  • Combustible fuel in any tanks or containers

  • Console stereos or TVs, big projection TVs, or any that are older than 5 years, are not working, and those missing knobs or buttons

  • Child car-seats

  • Baby cribs with a sliding side rail

  • Building materials, including paint and carpet remnants**

  • Auto parts

  • Electronics not in working condition

  • Mattresses*

  • Large appliances such as dishwashers, stoves and refrigerators, etc.*

  • Large exercise equipment (treadmills, elliptical machines, etc.)**

  • Pianos or organs

  • Slate-top pool tables

  • Safety helmets, including baseball, football, and cycling helmets

*Call Ecumenical Storehouse: (865) 481-0274

**Call Habitat ReStore: (865) 483-5433


We couldn’t have a fundraiser without your generosity! Donations may be brought to church at the following times:

  • Sunday, Sept. 8, 12:30-5 p.m.

  • Monday, Sept. 9 - Thursday, Sept. 12, 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. daily
    If you have more than a few items, please arrive at least a half hour before closing time.

  • Big Rummage Pickup is Saturday, Sept. 7 from 9 a.m. until noon. We need trucks and volunteers! If you have items you would like to have picked up, please email oruucrummage@gmail.com.

    Please note that we will not be accepting donations the day of the sale.

How Can I Help?
 
Lend us folding tables and/or clothing racks: We will need to borrow many. Label with your name and phone number. They may be dropped off during the above donation hours, or we can pick them up during our Big Rummage Pick Up on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 7.

Volunteer: The Rummage Sale needs you! It takes many volunteers to operate the sale. Help with Big Rummage Pickup on Saturday, Sept. 7, continuing into the afternoon if needed. Volunteers with strong backs and trucks & vans are needed; help sort and prepare items for sale in the week prior to the sale; assist customers at the sale on September 13 and 14, and/or help clean up after the sale ends from 2pm on Saturday until whenever we’re finished. You can let us know when you’re available by emailing oruucrummage@gmail.com.

Shop: Friday for the preview sale (6-8 p.m.) and/or on Saturday (9 a.m. - 2 p.m.) You’ll find good bargains for amazing merchandise while helping to support many of the great causes of ORUUC, and you’ll be advocating for recycling, repurposing, and reusing items to keep from loading our landfills!

Food! Volunteers always appreciate snacks as well as easy to reheat foods for lunch and dinner!