CRAP for a CURE!

CRAP for a CURE

Now this is cool. This is what happens when Snarky Sarkies get motivated. Our good friend and fellow Snarky Sarkie, Dave Rojo, from the sovereign country of New Jersey, came up with this ingeniously simple idea… and I think it’s a winner.

Hold a yard sale (garage sale, rummage sale, rubbish sale, whatever you want to call it) and use the proceeds to benefit a favorite Sarcoidosis charity of your choosing.

This idea is great on many levels:

1. You get to clean out all the crap and dusty treasures in your house and do a little (or major) Spring Cleaning. And folks will happily pay you (within reason) for your stuff and cart it away for you (my favorite part).

2. You get to meet your neighbors after a long winter’s nap. Have some coffee, tea, doughnuts, bagels, or crumpets handy. People like free eats when they “schmooze” with you about what the heck Sarcoidosis is and greedily eyeball your Elvis Black Velvet Clock missing the King's hour hand arm.

3. You increase awareness about our disease. Your signs will provoke questions about Sarcoidosis. Be prepared to give a good answer... or at least bitch like hell about the lack of awareness, cure, prednisone, pronunciation guidelines, etc.

4. You get cash money for things that just take up space in your house that you could be using for fresh air. As a Snarky Sarkie, I’d rather have 60 cubic feet of fresh air to breath than a moldy collection of 70’s 8-Track tapes and moth-eaten kewpie dolls from my holiday in Brighton. Its that easy: Crap out. Donations in.

5. You get to send these proceeds to the favorite Sarcoidosis charity of your choice (and depending on where you live, you might be able to claim it on your taxes; to say nothing of the bragging rights. “That’s right, people… I have raised a whopping 43.95 for a pile of compost that I no longer need to pole-vault over to reach my washing machine. Stand in awe, or beat my record!” Or however you want to express your inspired Sarcoidosis philanthropy. And you never know, that last .25 you got for your Master POG Collection might just be the .25 that pushes research over the top and finds a cure. C'mon, humor me.

It’s a win, win, win, win, win situation.

And why confine it to your yard? Hold a club or church Crap-a-Thon and really raise the big bucks and the big awareness. Who know’s? Perhaps the Vicar’s Aunt Tillie’s French Tickler will make the evening news as you are interviewed about your Sarcoidosis fundraiser. Sound like fun?

Winter is almost over and soon spring will light up the air; so now is the time to start planning! You have free use of the ‘CRAP for a CURE” phrase. Decide on a place and date. Make plenty of signs up with some brightly colored poster-board and some permanent markers (Pre-made Promotional Items are also Available Here at the Snarky Sarkie Site) Plan out where to post them (walls, poles, yards, intersections, the neighbors dog, the neighbor on his hammock) and notify the local paper.

Makes some notes of some quick witty answers when folks ask what Sarcoidosis is all about… and for that matter, what you meant by “Crap.”

Have some refreshments planned for the day and procure a huge lockbox and change for all the feverish swapping and haggling of the big day. More than just a great idea, I think this sounds like great fun. Dave is going to make his a reality this spring. And even theGardener is re-thinking renting that dumpster for his garage crap and will most likely have a CRAP for a CURE yard sale instead.

— My name is theGardener; I have two dogs, a cat, sarcoidosis, and several jars of rusty screws and washers; a wad of fun fur; a souvenir shot glass from the 60 Blokes Stuffed in a Call Box college event in Colchester; a large ceramic Banana from Guam, two cases of semi-pristine cassette tapes, including a very special Christmas with Englebert Humperdink; that I plan on selling to some lucky garage sale junkie.

What are you waiting for? START PLANNING!

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