Popular Hilton Head community yard sale coming back. Get this date on your calendar
Treasure hunters, mark your calendars. A popular Hilton Head community yard sale is making a comeback.
“The World’s Largest Yard Sale” is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 24 in the parking lot of Hilton Head Island High School. The sale will be held rain or shine.
Admission for shoppers is free, and a space to sell (the size of one parking spot) is available for $50.
Once an annual event, the sale hasn’t been held since 2018 due to changes in principals at the school and COVID-related school closings.
“We wanted to bring it back a couple years ago,” said Daisy Dianne Morgan, office manager and administrative assistant at the high school.
Proceeds from the sale will go into a fund administered by principal Steve Schidrich.
“It’s a faculty- and staff-run fundraiser, and so because we don’t have students involved, that allows us to use the money for anything that the faculty and staff have needs for,” Morgan said.
As one example, she said sometimes teachers need supplies for classroom projects, and those could be funded from the money raised.
The sale was first held in 2000 in the parking lot of The Island Packet’s former location on Buck Island Road in Bluffton, but two years later it was moved to Hilton Head High School’s parking lot.
“It grew quickly, and it was more popular than we thought,” said Beth Patton, the Packet’s former vice president of marketing who was the original organizer of the sale 23 years ago. “We quickly realized we didn’t have enough space.”
With so many people living in gated communities where yard sales are prohibited, sellers were eager to participate, and parking became an issue at the Bluffton location.
Patton said people would park along U.S. 278 and try to walk with strollers along the busy highway.
In 2022, the sale moved to Hilton Head Island High’s parking lot. Over the years, the school took on more and more responsibility for the organization of the event, and it became a fundraiser for student groups.
Fans of the sale can expect it to be largely the same as it has been in past years.
“The only difference is that the athletic department used to do coffee in the morning and hot dogs and hamburgers,” Morgan said. “We won’t have a concession stand this time.”
Hilton Head Island High School is located at 70 Wilborn Road.
Those interested in reserving a space to sell may email bookkeeper Nina Cortese at nina.cortese@beaufort.k12.sc.us.
