Yard sale during ArtBeat next Saturday, 19 Burnham St. (help us choose the best time)

[brewso.livejournal.com]

In the spirit of this year's green-themed ArtBeat, we have decided to take advantage of the Davis hordes and have ourselves a long-overdue yard sale. We are total packrats and have items that run the whole gamut:

The Unusual:

antique furniture (in various stages of refinishing)
weird religious iconography
vintage kitchenware (stand mixers, reamer, green-handled implements from long ago, etc.)
other cool and weird collectibles from people who spend too much time at others' yard sales

The Usual:

books (novels, self-help, a few children's books)
games
kitchen stuff (quite a bit of this, including an old-but-functional Cuisinart 11-cup food processor)
bedding stuff
tchotchkes
clothes and accessories (vintage and contemporary)
some kids toys, including a large train table with storage bins (I'm a teacher, not a mom, so this won't be overrun with kids' stuff)

We will also feature a few Big-Ticket Items. While most things will be "yard sale priced," there will be a few items that we will have firm price attached to them (as we will simply post them on eBay if they don't sell here):

Pottery Barn Schoolhouse chairs
Antique shoe-drying rack from a Lowell factory (we used it to hold shoes, and later to hold towels)
iPods (one old mini, one new nano)
iPod fancy ear buds and docking station

..etc., etc., etc. It really goes on for days. We're at 19 Burnham St. It's a tiny little street in between Powderhouse Blvd and Broadway near the rotary. It's about a 6-7 minute walk from Davis (Holland to Irving to Burnham). The closest landmarks are the Tufts tennis courts and playing fields on the Powderhouse side and the hair salon at the corner of Broadway and Irving.

What we could use right now is some advice on times. We want to overlap with ArtBeat, but also maybe start beforehand, in case people want to come to us first. Does anyone know the scheduled times for the ArtBeat events?

Thanks!

Comments

[ron_newman]

ArtBeat schedule is here. First event on Saturday is at 11:45 am.

[brewso.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Do you know, though, when vendors will be up and running?

[ron_newman]

No. Ask Lauren Leeman at the Somerville Arts Council.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

if you have fixed prices, I'd suggest putting them in this listing, even if you're not selling them beforehand (which is usually for the best). That way you won't tick people off by getting them to come for the iPods just to find out that you're asking a price that they could get a refurb for.

[moria923.livejournal.com]

How much are you thinking of asking for the Cuisinart? I'd be very interested in looking at it.

[brewso.livejournal.com]

$25.00. It's got a chip in the plastic (lexan?) which requires the user to hold the top down while it's on (so that it engages). I used it that way for years and it was never a problem - it's not as though you need to walk away from a food processor for any great length of time. It comes with all of the attachments - grater, slicer, regular blade, dough blade...

[fefie.livejournal.com]

Artbeat runs from 11am-6pm on Saturday (that is, all vendors and organizations are set up with their booths at 11am).

[purpless77.livejournal.com]

I agree with thespian.
How much are you asking for the ipods?

[elbren]

I might like to pre-reserve some of the weird religious iconography, depending on what it is exactly.