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Regina Hertl manages hundreds of donations and many customers for 20 days straight during Croton's St. Augustines Episcopal Church annual rummage sale. She volunteers to work from 10 a.m., when the rummage sale opens in the morning, until 4 p.m., when the tent doors flap shut. The rummage sale itself has been going on for more than a decade, with Hertl managing the affair for the last 11 years.
The sale will take place from now until June 5. My kids know that when its rummage season, says Hertl, that moms not around.
This year Hertls daughter, Margaret Livingston, a 15-year-old sophomore at Croton-Harmon High School, has joined the effort by creating over 2,000 rummage sale flyers.. Livingston and a team of congregation members have taken shifts in order to post all 2,000 fliers in various food pantries, shelters and laundromats around Westchester County.
Livingstons marketing campaign, which was produced in both English and Spanish, comes in light of the congregations realization that we werent meeting the needs of the most needy, says Hertl. The rummage sale provides an opportunity to shop for donated items of clothing, kitchenware, toys, adult books and some furniture at prices well below that of even Goodwill.
Livingston hopes to eventually turn her marketing campaign for St. Augustines annual rummage sale into a manual for other churches around Westchester County to use for their own rummage sales.
All clothing will be on sale for $1 outside St. Augustines Episcopal Church until June 3. From June 3 to 5 it will move indoors for the sale of kitchenware, adult books, toys and other knick-knacks. Donations and volunteers are welcome.
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