Huge crowd attends Mom 2 Mom sale in Saline

Over 400 people waited in line to attend a public Mom-2-Mom Sale in Saline Saturday. 

Kia Wojtanowski lives right down the street and saw the sign. She shopped the baby girl clothing area for her daughter, Care. 

“I came to find cheap clothes,” she said. “They grow out of them so fast.”  

Each table was separated into boy/girl and listed by size. This Mom-2-Mom sale organizers boasted that it is the only one around that has sizes 0-12, so parents of older kids can find bargains, too.  

Cara Swayze, a vendor at the event, sold baby clothes and equipment, maternity items, toys and books.

“The big stuff went really fast,” she said. 

By noon the only items left on her table were a few infant outfits.

Teresa Ferenczy managed the event. She said she wanted to host a sale that allowed the public to sell, buy and donate clothes.

“We don’t really have vendors here,” Ferenczy said. “People who want to sell their clothes bring them to us for the sale. Everything is tagged. They can either donate what doesn’t sell or come and pick it up. After the sale I go through the tags so I can pay people."

A Purple Heart truck picked up what was left.  

Ferenczy offers sellers a 70-30 split for profit.

“If they volunteer to help at the sale for three hours then it is 75-25 to the seller,” she said. 

Volunteers for the event were dressed in red shirts, and were found throughout the space folding and straightening clothing, taking cash at the check out, or monitoring the “Hold” table.   This was a space for parents with arms already full, to set items down so they could continue shopping.

Ruth Goff and Ferenczy’s mother, Jeanette Ferenczy, were volunteers. 

“We are the garage sale queens,” she said. “Today we are the everything ladies, helping out wherever it is needed.” 

Indeed, when the line was so long that some shoppers weren’t sure if it was worth the wait for a smaller purchase, Goff and Ferenczy worked the line for check out.  “We would ask if there was anyone in line with exact change, or only a couple of items, and check them out so they could leave.”  

Teresa Ferenczy said she will hold another Mom-2-Mom Sale in the fall. Now that she knows the kind of crowd to anticipate, she will likely have more volunteers and more checkout lanes, according to Groff.