Ever wondered what to do with the excess things stored in your cabinets, garage and another storeroom perhaps? Clean up! Clean up! Turn all your unused things to CASH!
One fine Sunday, March 2, 2014, I volunteered to be part of the rummage sale at Bel-Air Village in Makati City. This is one of the fund raising projects of iVolunteer organization. I wrote a post about iVolunteer HERE.
It was a Clean UP! Flea Market activity inside the subdivision, the venue was at Park 3 Solar Street. From 7am to 3pm, mostly resident vendors sold PRE-LOVED items which included clothing, shoes, bags, accessories, luggage, original CDs, books, toys, household items and a lot more.
There
were over 120 non-food tables that filled the whole covered court and there were few food tables found on the side of the
court for the shoppers and vendors.
iVolunteer
had two tables. We were divided into two
teams. On one table were men’s clothing
and miscellaneous items headed by Hazel and Olenny. My partner for the women’s clothing was Mana.
She is a one petite lady that I could pass as her mother, except that she has
nice big eyes compared to my twinkling small eyes. I’ve met Hazel, Olenny and
Mana in the past community meet- up. They are part of the iVolunteer core team.
As volunteers of the day, we were tasked to
sell items donated by iVolunteer
friends and supporters. We were challenged to use our marketing and selling
skills to draw bargain hunters to our tables, it was a friendly competition
among the vendors. It helped that the
organizer had a good sound system to announce on going sale promos as submitted
by vendors. I must say that iVolunteer led the craze of the following
promos towards the last few hours of the flea market:
3 items for p50, 3 items for p20, all items at p5 and shop all you can in one plastic
bag for only p20. Unbelievable, it was a hit to both the shoppers and vendors turned shoppers!
Thank
you to all the donors, organizer, buyers and to my co-volunteers for this
memorable and meaningful experience. Thank you iVolunteer for coming up with this activity.
The
proceeds of the flea market will be used to fund projects of iVolunteer. iVolunteer Philippines is a non-profit
organization founded in 2001, it is run by volunteers with full time jobs and
careers.
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| From left to right: Hazel, Mana, Your Writer and Olenny |
This summer is a great time to CLEAN UP! and turn your excess things to CASH!
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To organizers, event venue groups and subdivision homeowners, please email details of upcoming flea markets to lavidarosa8@gmail.com.
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