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Post by workingclassdog on Dec 14, 2018 15:29:42 GMT
My friend who I scrapped with passed away a little over a year ago. Let's just say she had TONS and TONS of supplies. I'm talking a basement full and garage full (I think) and even more. Her husband just asked me to come over to take a look to see what we can do with all of it. What ideas can I come up with in trying to sell (I don't know if he just wants to sell or donate). I don't think he would want a lot of people coming through and picking it all apart either.
My initial thoughts are:
1. Try to sell as one lot on CL/Marketplace/etc. Or break it down by craft. Beading, scrapbooking, knitting, etc.
2. There is a craft consignment store that might be interested but I don't know how much they pay.
3. Have a garage sale and advertise the crap out of it focusing on what is in the sale.
I don't know if he is going to let me have any of it or not.. I am not asking or (expecting) unless I see something and would offer to buy it. He might just say, take it all and do whatever with it. I'm not sure. They have 2 daughters so not sure why they haven't claimed it.. I know one that crafted with her.. but that is family business so I not going to interfere.
Truly my objective is to help him in whatever way he wants, I don't want to be that person who is in it for freebies. I have emailed him a few times over the last year just checking on him. He did come to me first for help at her funeral. So when he didn't contact me, I just sent little messages that I was thinking of him and the family.
I miss her SO much. She was my "OLD" scrapbook partner.. She was a year younger than my mom. We got along so well. It's funny how we met. It was over a needle. Isn't that funny? I went to my first ever retreat by myself. I learned some new technique and needed a needle. Someone said 'go ask Carole' cause she has everything. So I did. She let me borrow the needle and I lost it. I felt terrible. I went back and told her and she looked at me so serious and says "that was my grandmother's golden needle that I inherited from her".. and she kept a straight face for a good solid minute before laughing.
Sorry for the LONNNGG post for a quick question..... So any other thoughts before I see what I am getting into?
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Post by monklady123 on Dec 14, 2018 15:34:11 GMT
I gave a lot of mine to a group that works with women who have cancer... they help them make photo albums for their families, frames, memory books, etc. I'm sorry about your friend.  |
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Post by workingclassdog on Dec 14, 2018 15:35:52 GMT
Yes I should have listed donation as a possible option.
I am going to call the senior center today!
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Post by MZF on Dec 14, 2018 15:44:38 GMT
I downsized by SB supplies yrs ago--some in garage sales, but most I donated to the high school my kids went to. I do like the pp idea of donation to a shelter, too.
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Post by freebird on Dec 14, 2018 16:06:00 GMT
Recently there was a huge garage sale here from a woman who was in a nursing home. It was all quilting, fabric, etc. Literally filled a 40x40 room with her stuff. They really marketed it well and I know they sold a TON of things. Maybe a garage sale to recoup some money for him? If he wants. I know it was a ton of work though. They had about 6 - 8 people working the garage sale.
I'd seriously consider donating most of it if he doesn't want to mess with it.
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Post by lucyg on Dec 14, 2018 16:06:24 GMT
I’m sorry about your friend.
If he just wants it all gone, that’s the easiest. Take it home and go from there. I agree, a garage sale would be easy (and kind of fun). You could donate the proceeds to a charity she would have liked, or give it all to him.
Donating to a school or women’s organization or the Goodwill would be quick and fairly easy.
Did she have other scrapping friends who would like to pick through it all before donating/selling?
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Post by Mystie on Dec 14, 2018 16:06:43 GMT
Aw, I'm so sorry about your friend. She sounds like a lot of fun.
I got rid of about half of my crafting supplies earlier this year, and I took it to a non-profit craft reuse store. They take donations and re-sell cheap. I made a list and priced everything at garage sale prices so I had a figure for tax purposes. You might want to see if you have anything like that in your area. A craft consignment place would be great, too, since you/he would get some actual money for it. I definitely would have gone that route if I'd had one around. The only thing would be, a consignment store would probably be picky about what/how much to take, whereas the reuse store took it all.
Other than that, I guess I'd try to sell in large lots on FB Marketplace, divided by craft type. I find garage sales extremely time-consuming and frustrating to run, especially with as much stuff as it sounds like you'd be dealing with.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2018 16:07:35 GMT
I donated a lot of my stuff to my kids school. Art department.  Maybe the library? |
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Post by leftturnonly on Dec 14, 2018 16:19:52 GMT
She sounds like a great person to have scrapbooked with.
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Post by leftturnonly on Dec 14, 2018 16:20:50 GMT
I got rid of about half of my crafting supplies earlier this year, and I took it to a non-profit craft reuse store. They take donations and re-sell cheap. I made a list and priced everything at garage sale prices so I had a figure for tax purposes. You might want to see if you have anything like that in your area. A craft consignment place would be great, too, since you/he would get some actual money for it. I definitely would have gone that route if I'd had one around. The only thing would be, a consignment store would probably be picky about what/how much to take, whereas the reuse store took it all. How did you find these? |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Dec 14, 2018 16:21:13 GMT
Sorry about the loss of your scrapping friend.
Before a move I gave LOTS to a teacher in a middle school who has scrapbook club. With the added supplies she now has meetings at least 2 times a week and some of the kids go out to other schools and share the supplies and their skills. Oh and there is a senior center just around the corner and they share there too! Five years later the teacher is a good friend and was here to help me move again last May. She also has first choice when I pass away!
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Post by workingclassdog on Dec 14, 2018 16:41:16 GMT
It will really be up to him on what he wants to do.
Thanks for the ideas. I did call the senior center and they will take the yarn.
I will see if he still has her list of scrapbooking friends. That might be a good idea as well, let them pick what they want..sell/donate?? His call.
We did have a scrapbook club at school, but the teacher who ran it left. So that is out. I can ask the teachers if they want anything.
I don't mind doing a garage sale, so if he is on board with that, I can see if he doesn't mind if we do it out of his garage or if he just wants the stuff out. I don't know yet. I could move it to mine but there is so much I think that would be too much work.
If he does want to sell, I definitely will go through and get some stuff for myself. I know she had lots of great items. I was always impressed how she was always learning the new techniques. So we will see...
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Post by gmcwife1 on Dec 14, 2018 18:50:53 GMT
This just happened to us, we recently lost a very dear friend that had a lot of scrapping supplies. She was very social and had a very large circle of friends.
Some of her closest friends had a 'crafters reunion' in her name. It was a social sale of all her supplies and they held it at her church. All the money made was donated to her church in her name.
They had a catered lunch for $10. The sale ran from 10am to 4pm. There were free make and takes given by different people. There was a silent auction of some of her more expensive items. We had tickets that we purchased and her items were grouped into sections. The tickets allowed us to shop in different sections at different times. More expensive items had higher costing tickets.
It was a lot of work for her friends but the total raised for her church (after expenses) was $1745.00 The items that didn't sale were donated to various places. |
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Post by lindas on Dec 14, 2018 20:29:41 GMT
So sorry you lost your friend.
If he wants to go the donate route you might consider a nursing home. The one my mom was in had a craft session twice a week and it was always full of people.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Dec 14, 2018 20:42:13 GMT
I forgot to say, I'm sorry for the loss of your friend.
I had a hard time 'enjoying' the sale when I first got there. It just seemed odd. But some of our friends reassured me that it was what Judy would have wanted. And she would have laughed at us outbidding each other and would have egged us on. Now when I use the supplies with her name on them they make me smile and think of her  |
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Post by Basket1lady on Dec 14, 2018 20:57:20 GMT
This just happened to us, we recently lost a very dear friend that had a lot of scrapping supplies. She was very social and had a very large circle of friends.
Some of her closest friends had a 'crafters reunion' in her name. It was a social sale of all her supplies and they held it at her church. All the money made was donated to her church in her name.
They had a catered lunch for $10. The sale ran from 10am to 4pm. There were free make and takes given by different people. There was a silent auction of some of her more expensive items. We had tickets that we purchased and her items were grouped into sections. The tickets allowed us to shop in different sections at different times. More expensive items had higher costing tickets.
It was a lot of work for her friends but the total raised for her church (after expenses) was $1745.00 The items that didn't sale were donated to various places. This is a really lovely idea. A ton of work, but if Carole didn't have a church, what about the retreat where you met her? I'd love to have a pair of scissors (or whatnot) from an old friend. Yes, I probably would think of her every time I used them. |
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Post by workingclassdog on Dec 14, 2018 21:10:23 GMT
This just happened to us, we recently lost a very dear friend that had a lot of scrapping supplies. She was very social and had a very large circle of friends.
Some of her closest friends had a 'crafters reunion' in her name. It was a social sale of all her supplies and they held it at her church. All the money made was donated to her church in her name.
They had a catered lunch for $10. The sale ran from 10am to 4pm. There were free make and takes given by different people. There was a silent auction of some of her more expensive items. We had tickets that we purchased and her items were grouped into sections. The tickets allowed us to shop in different sections at different times. More expensive items had higher costing tickets.
It was a lot of work for her friends but the total raised for her church (after expenses) was $1745.00 The items that didn't sale were donated to various places. This is a really lovely idea. A ton of work, but if Carole didn't have a church, what about the retreat where you met her? I'd love to have a pair of scissors (or whatnot) from an old friend. Yes, I probably would think of her every time I used them. HA.. okay first I am freaking out because I was like "HOW DOES SHE KNOW HER NAME?" haha.. totally forgot I typed it.. heehee The retreat place where we met was sold off and basically I could never get enough people there.. it held like 100 women. I'm going to see what her hubby is thinking and go from there. At her memorial service, they put up a Christmas tree and filled it with a ton of her ornaments that she made.. like enough for 2 or 3 people each... So it is wonderful to pull those out now!! |
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Post by snugglebutter on Dec 14, 2018 21:37:30 GMT
If he wants a garage sale, I would suggest pricing the bigger ticket items individually and offering the smaller stuff at a bulk rate. Something like "fill a bag for ____" at the price you want to set. It would save a lot of time.
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Post by basketdiva on Dec 14, 2018 21:49:30 GMT
I would break it down by craft so you can market to more people.
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Post by calgaryscrapper on Dec 14, 2018 22:05:31 GMT
Perhaps donate to an Emergency Women’s Shelter or Ronald McDonald house or Children’s hospital.
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Post by leftturnonly on Dec 14, 2018 23:01:33 GMT
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Post by Mystie on Dec 14, 2018 23:03:53 GMT
I got rid of about half of my crafting supplies earlier this year, and I took it to a non-profit craft reuse store. They take donations and re-sell cheap. I made a list and priced everything at garage sale prices so I had a figure for tax purposes. You might want to see if you have anything like that in your area. A craft consignment place would be great, too, since you/he would get some actual money for it. I definitely would have gone that route if I'd had one around. The only thing would be, a consignment store would probably be picky about what/how much to take, whereas the reuse store took it all. How did you find these? I have a friend who's a teacher and she has been using the store to find classroom supplies. She liked it on FB and that's how I found it. I was really happy to have a place to take the stuff, because it was 13 boxes worth, a ton of stuff, and I did not want to mess with trying to sell it all. At least this way I get a tax write-off. I know you're not in VA, but if anyone else is, it's called Scrap RVA in Richmond. Tiny shop absolutely crammed with craft and art supplies! |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Dec 14, 2018 23:22:31 GMT
I’m sorry for the loss of your friend. I’m in a similar situation except that my BFF and I are in it together trying to figure out what to do with all of her mom’s craft stuff. It’s overwhelming. Her dad doesn’t care what we do with it as long as we clear it out so he doesn’t have to deal with it. We are keeping some, will probably sell some of the higher ticket things we can’t use, and will donate a lot.
Start with her DH and ask him what his goals are first. If he just wants it gone, that makes it easier because you can take it home and sort through it at your own pace and keep/sell/donate as you like. If he wants to have a sale and there’s a lot (which it sounds like there is) I would ask if they belong to a church and go there to see if they have a room you can use or rent to hold the sale. People who would maybe hesitate to go to someone’s house for a garage sale wouldn’t hesitate to go to a public church sale, and it would be easier for him if the sale wasn’t at his house.
Ideas for places to donate to would be churches that have Sunday school or VBS programs, scouting troops, schools, daycares, children’s hospitals, Ronald McDonald House, social services places that help foster kids make life books, nursing homes, etc. There are all kinds of places that can really use supplies and tools like that.
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Post by Lexica on Dec 14, 2018 23:26:29 GMT
I got rid of a lot of stuff a few years ago. I had been given a few boxes of things from a friend who no longer wanted to scrapbook so I started with. Her stuff and added lots of my own paper and all of the stickers, paints and brushes, etc. I gave it to a children’s group home that was for kids from 10 or 16 years old.
Since I had the time, I sat with my Cricut and made up dozens and dozens of shapes that could be colored and altered to go along with it. It ended up being many little kits of papers, precut shapes, blank cards and envelopes, colored pencils, felt tip pens, all my old Prima flowers, some embossed papers, and lots of shaped white objects on both normal white paper and chipboard. I also made up a box with lots of samples of ornaments, cards, a little photo book, and 20 calendars bound with plain white at the top so they could design their own thing. I figured they could look through the sample box and could either make the same thing with the boxes of supplies or use it as a jump starter to kick off their own ideas.
They sent me a nice card a few weeks after I dropped everything off to tell me the kids had a blast. Even the boys got into making cards and paper airplanes and robots. One of the women that lives with the kids called me to ask what I used to cut out the shapes. She said the kids had so much fun that she wanted to purchase a machine herself to make things for the future.
Maybe you can get a small group of friends together to do something similar with some of your friend’s supplies. That is if the husband doesn’t want to try to sell it all. I happened to choose a group home, but there are also hospitals, impoverished schools, libraries, retirement homes, single mother groups, and more that would appreciate someone donating things to bring more art into the lives of people.
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Post by dald222 on Dec 15, 2018 0:20:13 GMT
I am sorry for the loss of your freind |
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