Summer Benefit Sale

All proceeds from the sale benefit the Marlboro Alliance General Fund

The 2025 Summer Benefit Sale was a success! 

Thinking about Summer Sale 2026? 

Check back here in late Spring of 2026 for dates and details for the 67th Annual Sale.

 It’s not too soon to start your 2026 donation box, or to think about getting more involved. The updated donation guidelines are below, and the sale coordinators are interested in talking to anyone who is inspired to get a bit more involved next year. Reach us at MarlboroRummageSale@gmail.com

The Marlboro Alliance and its Board of Directors, and the sumner sale co-coordinators offer our heartfelt thanks to the  large group of 2025 Summer Sale Volunteers!

Everyone’s cheerful hard work on behalf of the Marlboro Alliance’s single largest annual fundraiser will directly benefit members of the Marlboro Community all year long. It goes without saying – but we will anyhow – that your volunteer hours are what make this event such a resounding success. 

Thanks to volunteers, donors and buyers, this year’s sale generated an impressive $6900 for the Marlboro Alliance.  It is a beauty to behold this community come together for its own mutual benefit, building relationships and making connections along the way.  

Over the four days that sale activities took place, this group donated 200+ hours to:

> Set-up and Clean-Up: haul and set up tents, tables and clothes racks (next year we’d like a few more folks under the age of 65 for these tasks!), and then do it all in reverse.

> Receive Donations: vet  – which is working well, more on our waste-reduction efforts below – sort, organize, display, and continuously cull and re-display the donated goods

> Staff the checkout tables.

> Run the Bake Sale: organize, beautify the bake sale area, bake, and staff the bake-sale table

> Clear out of the Marlboro School Site: box up leftover items, pack up, break down, clean up, toss trash and recycle cardboard (all in the rain).

> Drive 80+ bags and boxes of leftover goods to their donation endpoints: 

Our Waste Reduction Efforts:

The donation guidelines are a reflection of what we see left over at the end of the sale each year. While we expect to have leftovers, some items are very difficult to donate and so end up in the trash. Our goal is to throw away as little as possible, and the donation guidelines are an important part of this effort. 

In 2025 if seemed that folks who donated reviewed and (mostly) followed the donation guidelines! Thanks to those efforts and to the watchful eyes of our volunteer vetters we significantly reduced the amount of donated goods left over on Sunday. This year we generated approximately 75% less trash, and donated about 80 bags/boxes of leftover clothes, shoes, household items, books and furniture to local organizations: Experienced Goods, Twice Blessed, Health Care and Rehabilitation Services (HCRS), Village Closet, Roundabout Books, and the Wyndham Country Transfer Station Swap Shop.

If you are inspired to get more involved next year we have a list of discrete tasks that we’d love to assign to any willing and capable volunteers! Please get in touch with us now or later to discuss via email at: MarlboroRummageSale@gmail.com

Warmly and In Cooperation,

Jess Robinson and Krystal Graybeal

66th Annual Marlboro Benefit Summer Sale Co-Coordinators for 2025

DONATION GUIDELINES for 2026:

To ensure that only saleable items are donated, please do these two things when donating:

• Go through your items carefully at home before bringing them to the donation site. Remove everything that does not meet the guidelines below.

• Leave enough time to review your items with a Sale Volunteer before departing the drop off location. This review will happen in a clearly marked location either in the parking lot, or at the bottom of the driveway. 

We deeply appreciate your understanding and cooperation in making sure donated items follow the guidelines below. Why? Disposing of left-over items on Sunday is a tremendous amount of work for volunteers – almost as much as the sale itself – and expensive for the Marlboro Alliance.

We ACCEPT clean and usable… 

• clothing

• household goods

We can ACCEPT with CONDITIONS…

• Furniture: you must be willing to leave your contact information and agree to collect the item on Sunday after 4 pm if it does not sell.

• children’s games/toys: only in new/excellent condition with ALL the pieces 

• Electronics: less than two years old and fully functional OR antique/special interest (accepted at our discretion.)

• Books:  we love books! But, we CANNOT ACCEPT travel, cookbooks, textbooks, magazines.

• Tools: must be in working condition.

We will NOT ACCEPT:.

• Any item listed above that is broken, damaged, missing pieces, or very dirty since we have no way to clean items before selling.

• magazines, textbooks, travel

• cookbooks older than 2 years

• General use electronics older than 2 years and/or not fully functional . Old electronics that could be considered collectible/antique or of special interest will be accepted at our discretion.

• Strollers, Cribs, Children’s Bed Frames and Mattresses, Highchairs. It can be difficult to find homes for second hand children’s items because of safety and liability concerns. In 2024 the vast majority of these items donated were unclaimed and it took many volunteer hours/days to re-home/dispose of them. We need to be much stricter this year. There are resources online for passing along children’s goods, strollers and car seats included. We encourage you to explore those avenues to donate your items.

• Stuffed Animals. (Sorry!)