West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day kicks off for the first time in 2 years

SEATTLE – For the primary time in two years, an enormous West Seattle Group Storage Sale is reconnecting neighbors, supporting good causes and showcasing some nice native expertise, too.

Throughout West Seattle, it is a return to one thing acquainted and enjoyable.

Storage sale indicators are bringing neighbors collectively once more.

“It has been a ardour of mine for 22 years now, and I began blowing to prepare for this sale in January,” Brad Burzynski mentioned.

For Burzynski, West Seattle Group Storage Sale Day is a chance to showcase his glassblowing expertise. 

“Each Saturday morning, I am in there making floats or platters or bowls or no matter,” he mentioned.

For others, it is an opportunity to breathe new life into previous gadgets.

“It has been going into my basement and pulling out all of the containers of garments I have not gotten rid of and sitting and simply placing little worth tags on every part,” neighbor Amelia mentioned.

It has been two years since this annual custom attracted individuals to their neighbor’s yards.

The pandemic meant the nice offers and conversations got here to a halt, however this weekend, it is all again.

Folks together with Jessica Beckwith aren’t losing time placing litter to good use.

“We’re a non-profit preschool known as Hazelwood Preschool right here in West Seattle, and we provide a scholarship for tuition help for households in want, so every part that we’re promoting at the moment together with the bake sale, every part’s been donated by households close by and every part goes towards our scholarship fund,” mentioned Beckwith.

There are garments, motion pictures and there’s a lot extra to discover proper subsequent door.

“We’re pregnant with our third, so we’re positively searching for a brand new diaper bag and a brand new stroller. Issues that we want,” Deena Soto mentioned.

Greater than 300 owners arrange store, plotting a degree on a map and letting individuals know they may discover absolutely anything they need, although they understand the present West Seattle Bridge work probably means a couple of much less visits this yr. 

“I will be glad when it is fastened up. I do not see my mates which are on the opposite aspect of — off island,” neighbor Bridget Daly mentioned.

This time round, what a lot of them mentioned they discovered was a renewed sense of group and reference to their West Seattle neighbors.

They mentioned that’s the finest deal of all.

“It is superior as a result of it is an annual occasion, hasn’t occurred for a few years, and it’s totally thrilling,” neighbor Rose Ann Gizinski mentioned.

The subsequent West Seattle Group Storage Sale Day is about for Might 13, 2023, and neighbors mentioned they cannot wait to return again.

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