Thanks to the members and supporters who found the time to come to the SustainaBundy Garage Sale Party yesterday to promote "buying second hand first" to reduce consumption, keep items out of landfill and raise awareness of SustainaBundy. There was a strong, steady stream of buyers through the gate, and with such a small number of members on hand it was nearly impossible to run a garage sale and get the SustainaBundy message across all at the same time. I hope we'll have more hands on deck at the next event to help hand out flyers and talk to the general public about SustainaBundy and what we're trying to achieve, even if they don't have items to sell themselves. Happily, we managed to sign up a new financial member and got a couple new discussion list subscribers who seem keen to get involved!

The breakfast, raffle, and financial membership raised $55.50 for SustainaBundy. Congratulations to Beth W. who won the raffle: two bottles of worm tea natural liquid fertiliser, a jar of home made tomato relish, and two very well made, reversible cloth shopping bags! Thank you to everyone who bought tickets and breakfast, and thanks especially to those SustainaBundy members and supporters who donated the breakfast and raffle items.

Unfortunately, one event illustrated that SustainaBundy still has a long way to go to getting the whole community working together on sustainability issues: two teenagers on bicycles visited the garage sale party, one proudly noting that he'd purchased his bike second hand for only $2 - these boys sounded like they were really on the right track. They spent a good amount of time at our 50 cent table, finally purchasing a partially used can of polyurethane expanding foam sealant. This morning we found the can in the gutter directly in front of our house, with the expanded, hardened foam sealing it to the kerb. It appears they'd run over it with their bikes to explode it for fun.