Today was the annual Hop Along Hollow Tag Sale.   We started doing this a few years back and have made anywhere from $400 - $900 in the past.   I'll admit, I could have done more to help promote it this year, but it seems that time is just so short for all of us these days.   We ended up taking in a little less than $200 this year, but it's money we didn't have this morning, so we're grateful.

Tag Sales are easy money and hard work, both at the same time.   It's easy to collect a bunch of stuff, put it out on the lawn, and take money from people willing to cart the stuff away.   But you have to be everywhere at once, and even today with six people helping out (myself included) some of our stuff managed to sneak away from us unpaid for.  It's hard to imagine someone stealing from a tag sale in general, but from one that is publicized as a tag sale for a charity?   Seriously people?   We lost probably $100 worth of stuff today because, quite frankly, you just can't be everywhere.   And we noticed that people will take a lot of small items and pile them on top of larger ones then just give us a $20 and leave.   We're grateful, thinking they just donated $20 for $5 worth of crap, but in the end, they just walked off with something valued at $50 hidden underneath the smaller stuff.   And then you get the opposite...the people who come in and pick out one thing, marked $1, and donate $10.    We've only had something stolen from one other tag sale before and it was one of our cell phones.  

Will we stop doing tag sales because of this?  Absolutely not.   It gets us outside for one, and it gets our name out there for another.   You meet some really nice people, and a lot of folks admit that it never occurred to them that Rabbit Rescues exist...so you get to teach them a little something while you're at it.   Can we guarantee that people won't walk off with stuff from time to time?  No.   But the way I see it...if you have to steal from a charity, then you're way worse off than we are.