Do you have any gently used clothes, furniture, household goods, or toys?

I will come and pick them up, or you can drop them off at Rita Bennett's house on the corner of School and Second Streets in Watkinsville. Her house is across the street from the left field corner of Rocket field and near some of the cool street art of spinning wheels inside a colorful painting.

We need your help in donating your items that you are no longer using for a yard sale for the Oconee County Democratic Committe during the Oconee County Fall Festival October 17. You can call my house at 706-769-1131 and leave a message or just haul it on over to Rita's house at School Street. We need it soon and urge you to price it yourself, or at least suggest a price when dropping it off.

Rita's driveway is on Second, and I just spent a couple hours lobbing off vast chunks of privet, wisteria and crepe myrtles to try and make her yard just a little more presentable for the mass quantities of people presumed to be walking by for the Oconee County Fall Festival that same day. Usually the kids train embarks on its jolly journey right in front of her house.

You do not have to be a Democrat to donate to our yard sale. You do not have to live in Oconee County to donate or shop at our yard sale. You do not have to even be political to donate, shop or just tell a friend about our yard sale. We just want to keep items out of our landfills, and rest assured, anything not sold will be donated to one of a variety of second hand stores.

We need your help. We will be grateful. You will feel better about yourself for jettisoning the junk from your house or your dorm or apartment. Thank you very much for your consideration and assistance. We are an abundant and wealthy county, and we only want what you no longer use or need. We do not expect the sun and the moon, but there is not a single person who does not have something they can donate.  So please, empty out your closets and attics, get rid of those all dishes in the pantry, send us your old shoes and coats and blankets. We will not say no to anything you choose to leave us with for our yard sale. Please hurry up and clean out your stuff for us to come fetch or for you to deliver.

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