Children's Clothing Swap and chatter

This Saturday the Natural Mamas holds their third free Children's Clothing Swap.
Important details follow so pay attention...
Sponsor: Natural Mamas
What: Children's Clothing Swap
When: Saturday October 25th
Where: Sheppard Memorial Library
Meeting Room A
530 Evans St Greenville NC
Why: This event is intended for the community to bring donations of children's items such as
clothing, toys, feeding, sleeping and bathing gear, etc. Once at the swap, everyone is
allowed to look through the goods and take home whatever their family needs. If you
have nothing to donate, doesn't matter, come anyway and take what you need. Anything
leftover will be taken to local charities.
Legalities: This non-profit event is hosted by Natural Mamas and is in no way a Sheppard
Memorial Library event.

Check out these happy "shoppers".

Chit Chat: So who's really doing all the work for this thing? At this point, myself and a co-organizer who loves doing charity work- I suspect she gets immense personal satisfaction from helping others- who wouldn't? We have one confirmed volunteer and that's it for now so the work load appears dyer. My biggest concern, other than the lack of help, is that I haven't really advertised this go around. We were supposed to have this in September but a tropical storm came our way that morning and, after discussing the potentials of being blown away while carrying bags of stuff inside the library, we canceled the event. But in the month since the no-go, I've really lost interest in spreading the word and haven't put nearly as much into it as I should have. Thankfully I'm not the only one advertising (speaking about my co-organizer now) but I did find a glitch. A few weeks ago, I was at the library and noticed a flier about the swap. "Great!" I thought. But then I saw the date was a day off. Hmmm. She's since fixed the date and retraced her steps so hopefully no one will go to the library today for free stuff instead of tomorrow. At some point, tonight or early tomorrow, I will load my borrowed car with donations and will be off to spread pre-holiday cheer. I'll be glad to be rid of these things because they've been clogging the girl's closet for two months. It's time to move on with this stalled train and time to store up for the next swap in the spring.

Me and the girl, spring swap '08