Does your private home appear unusually uncluttered? Do you take pleasure in purchasing for antiques, or planning your Halloween costume months beforehand? When you answered “yes” to any of those questions, then you definately’ll take pleasure in visiting the White Elephant Sale, the oldest and largest rummage sale in all of Northern California.
Placed on by the Oakland Museum Girls’s Board, the warehouse-spanning extravaganza has raised greater than $30 million in its 60-year historical past for the Oakland Museum of California’s exhibitions and academic applications. It’s managed by a whole lot of volunteers who will fortunately speak your ear off about no matter discount merchandise you’ve unearthed, whether or not it’s an outdated phonograph, a glitzy promenade gown, property furnishings or porkpie hat of mysterious origin. Or possibly some delicate China, jewellery and pretend fur, an acoustic guitar or a traditional Schwinn bike in want of some TLC. That’s the fantastic thing about the White Elephant Sale – you by no means know what treasure you’ll discover.
The occasion includes 17 departments and over 90,000 sq. toes of buying house, so deliver your comfiest footwear and a bottle of water. However don’t deliver money, as solely main credit score and debit playing cards and Apple Pay are accepted for entry and purchases.
Particulars: Sale runs 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday from Jan. 29-Feb. 15, Feb. 17 (Presidents Day), Feb. 20-22, with the clearance weekend (free entry) from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. March 1 and a pair of at 333 Lancaster St., Oakland; make reservations and purchase $7 tickets at whiteelephantsale.org.
