Goodsearch

Folks,
GSA has been set up on Goodsearch as a beneficiary. Just use our org as the beneficiary when you search. Click on the button to the left and it will leave you to Goodsearch.org's website. From there you can get the 411 of how it works.
I have it installed on my browser and use it as my search engine.
Mary

REMINDER - NO DONATIONS MON OR TUESDAY

Just a reminder, we're NOT taking any donations Mon or Tues (that's the 7Th & 8Th). We need a few days to concentrate on cleaning and straightening the store.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Mary

New Favorite added

Folks,
I just added a link to my favorite computer guy. Ed Williams has fixed several of my printers and helped me tremendously with IT issues. He is very quick and reliable. I would certainly recommend him to anyone with computer needs especially printer issues. I jammed up my own printer which wasn't even a year old. Ed fixed it and had it back to me in a couple of days. Here's the link again to his webpage. I found him very helpful and easy to understand.
http://www.ecwandassociates.com.
Mary

Donation Hours Reminder

Because we have been so overwhelmed by all your generous donations, we've had to cut back on our hours for just a little bit.
Here's the scoop
Friday Jan 4 and Sat Jan 5th we will take donations at our normal time. Which is 11am to 3pm. ( We stop right at 3 because if we took just one more bag, we'd be there all night)
NEXT MONDAY AND TUESDAY JAN 7 & 8 2008 WE WILL NOT BE TAKING ANY DONATIONS. THIS IS SO WE CAN PLAY CATCH UP FROM THE YEAR END.
We'll start taking donations again as normal on Wednesday Jan 9th from 11 am to 6pm.
Thursday Jan 10th hours are the same 11 til 6pm.
Friday and Sat 11- 3pm.
Please honor these times. Staff is really trying hard to clean out the store and get our donations under control. It's coming along nicely and couple of days without focusing on incoming donations will help them turn the store around.
Thanks for your patience and understanding.
Mary
FYI - on Dec 31st between 11 am and 3 pm. We gave out 114 receipts for donations. And most people had more than one bag. So image what that mountain must look like right now. So have patience and we'll be back to normal in no time

We gone to the dogs

I just found half a dozen of these cute little collars for dogs. They are a size large and fit a 16-20" neck. They were way too cute to just leave sit on a shelf. I had to feature here. We're selling these for $3.

Mary

We now have clothes for bears

We just got in 3 small boxes full of bear clothes. You know the type I'm talking about. You go to the mall to one of those stores and stuff the bear yourself and then buy those outragously priced outfits to make a sharp looking bear.We'll we got a ton of those little outfits. There are many kinds to choose from including:

police officer

military- air force, army, marines

Fire fighter

pj's

There's lots more accessories and such.

Highest prices you will find are for the clothes with shoes and these sets will sell for $5.
Stop in the store and take a look.
Mary

Our main website is down.

Hey folks,
If you've tried getting onto our main webpage at http://www.loudounhomeless.org/ it was down. Our server doesn't know why. It's back up and running now.But since this blog is on a separate website it's up and running.
Sorry to those that tried to donate late on Monday. We got hit early and I had to shut donations down at 3pm. We just got way too much stuff in. Which is a good thing. That's why I recommeneded to everyone calling on Monday to get there early.
We'll be open for donations today (Wednesday) but probably only till 3. Call before you head out. 703-444-5956.
We still have tons and tons of bedspreads and sheets. I'm actually picking up more sheets tommorrow. At 50 cents each, they make great drop cloths.
Drive carefully, school is back in session.
Mary