Bring your donations to the Far Hills Fairgrounds between September 6 - 24, 2008; Monday thru Saturday from 10AM to 1PM. On entering the fairgrounds, turn right and proceed to one of the intake lines.  Please drive as far forward as possible along the lines of tables, staying close to the tables on your left, so vehicles may pass on your right.  Unload your donations onto the tables on your left and exit by turning left past the tents.  Please note special drop off directions for Electric, Books and Computers.

 

Donation Drop Off Procedures

The VNA greatly appreciates your generosity and that of the community in donating items to its rummage sales. To make your donation experience as pleasant as possible, please follow these guidelines:

Check the list of items that are, or are not, acceptable as donations on the list on this page. The VNA cannot make house calls to pick up items. If you have a question about acceptability or loading of a specific item, call 908-781-6445 and leave a message. Someone will get back to you.

Arrive at the Far Hills Fairgrounds during donation hours, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. except Sundays, entering by the normally-closed gate nearer Route 202 and turning right. There is a limited capacity for vehicles to wait before 10. The lease prohibits the VNA from accepting any donations before 10 or after 1.

Take a donation receipt and possibly other information from the volunteer greeting you, and follow the directions of the volunteers assisting with traffic and intake. You must determine the value of the items you donate; there are computer programs that can help you.
Load items into your vehicle in the reverse order of dropoff, (LIFO), following this list arranged in loading order:

Computers, including peripherals and software. These will be unloaded last and normally from the right side of your vehicle.
Books. Because books are heavy and our volunteers mostly women, please place books in sturdy bags or boxes with no more than 15 pounds in each. These will also be unloaded to the right.
Toys. Includes large items such as ride-on equipment and playhouses. These also will be unloaded to the right.
Furniture. This category includes not only furniture but also other items sold in the largest tents such as home and garden tools, baby and medical equipment, luggage, rugs, prints and other art. These and all following categories will be unloaded to the left.
Sporting goods, including exercise machines (not all may be accepted), skis and acceptable boots, skates, baseball caps, bats and gloves, golf clubs, fishing rods and the like.
Miscellaneous. Includes all clothing and other soft goods, jigsaw and other puzzles and games for adults, music, home-office equipment, small toys, kitchen and household items and anything else acceptable not elsewhere listed.
Electrical and optical equipment. Includes anything with a plug or batteries that must be tested before resale except computers; also includes cameras, enlargers and other photographic items, binoculars and telescopes. These will be unloaded first, from the left.

What we accept:

The following is a guideline of items we will accept at our Rummage Sale. As you box your household items or bag your clothing, please sort like items together. Also, keep in mind that if we cannot sell an item at the end of the sale, we will have to use our proceeds to pay for disposal. Therefore, please only donate saleable items. Also, please limit the weight of each box or bag of donations to less than 20 lb. for easy handling by our volunteers. WE APPRECIATE YOUR COOPERATION.

• CLOTHING, SHOES, & CLOTHING ACCESSORIES: We accept clean items in good to excellent condition. We cannot accept clothes with stains, tears, worn elastic bands, broken zippers or are missing buttons, shoes without buckles or laces, and belts that are tattered and worn.
• ELECTRICAL: We accept clean electrical items in working condition. Vacuum cleaners must have all parts and model must be less than 10 years old. Please box or bag all parts together and attach to the electrical item.
• FURNITURE: We accept furniture in good to excellent condition. Luggage must be in excellent condition. No locked luggage without keys or combination. Car seats for infants and children must be manufactured within five years, a SAFETY CODE requirement.
• HOUSEHOLD/KITCHEN: We accept clean, saleable items in good to excellent condition. Pots and pans without lids or tops are acceptable. Tupperware and other containers (cookie jars, canisters, etc.) must have lids. We cannot accept items that are broken, chipped, or are missing pieces.
• TOYS: We accept all games, stuffed animals, dolls, toys, and puzzles. We cannot accept large plastic toys that are broken, missing pieces or have split parts. We gratefully accept sorted paper shopping and grocery bags.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR DONATIONS! Proceeds from your generous donations directly benefit our patient services and hospice program.


What we cannot accept:

Due to environmental restrictions, safety codes, and the high cost of disposal we cannot accept the following items:

• Automobile tires, rims, car radios and speakers
• Baby furniture and car seats for infants and children not up to safety code; free-standing swings for children
• Books: discarded library books, encyclopedias printed between 1920 and 1990, magazines (except art and collectibles), National Geographic magazines, Reader’s Digest Condensed books, textbooks (including business related)
• Beds: bunk, sofas, trundle, & waterbeds; steel bed frames; recliners; upholstered sofas
• Box springs and mattresses, foam mattresses
• Built-in furniture/cabinets; furniture made of particle board or Formica
• Christmas trees, artificial, larger than 3’ x 3’
• Computers without hard drives and with chips older than Pentium or equivalent, non-color computer monitors, computer monitors smaller than 14”, dot matrix printers, large and heavy copiers
• ELECTRICAL: air conditioners; air purifiers/vaporizers; attic and ceiling fans; commercial equipment; curling irons; humidifiers; large & older models and all built-in microwave ovens; popcorn poppers
• ELECTRONICS: all black & white TVs and TVs with rotary dials; items without power packs; console TVs or TVs larger than 21 inches; large, heavy and all top-loading VCRs
• Framed pictures with broken glass, unframed mirrors, loose glass
• Fireplace doors
• Garden hoses (unless brand-new), canning jars
• Halogen lamps without safety guards
• HAZARDOUS WASTE (as defined by the Environmental Protection Agency)--paints, stains, varnishes, cleaners, pesticides, motor oil, or car batteries
• Large appliances
• Large office desks/furniture, metal file cabinets
• Loose hardware such as nails, screws, bolts, etc.
• Non-din ski boots, Nordic tracks
• Renovation/remodeling leftovers, tiles
• Sinks, toilets, toilet seats, tubs
• Storm doors, screen doors, windows, and window screens
• Venetian blinds or shades; drapes/curtains with foam rubber, fiber glass, or rubber backs
• Wall-to-wall carpeting, rugs without binding
• For Safety Reasons, we cannot accept anything flammable such as gasoline/ kerosene-filled items, matches or propane tanks or oil lamps with oil in them

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