Delaware Home Show

The ReStore has gotten a table at the Delaware Home Show. Wilmington's Chase Center will host the event next weekend. Saturday the show goes from 10-6 and Sunday from 11-4. The Home Show's website, http://delawarehomeshow.com/show.html?show.id=2431, has lists of exhibitors and events for the weekend.

We have attended the Home Show in the past and have done well to attract new customers and donors to the store. It is a great way for us to get the word out as to who we are and where we are located. For anyone interested in home improvement projects for the spring the Delaware Home Show is the place to start. Vendors from every kind of home improvement company will be there to discuss projects with attendees.

If you are attending, please stop by our table. The ReStore can be a great place to find low cost alternatives for home improvement projects. Even if you are planning to get supplies and equipment from other places, we still can provide a way to donate appliances, cabinets, bathroom fixtures, or other home items that are being replaced and are still in saleable condition. We can provide a reciept for tax purposes.

Art work donations to the ReStore

The ReStore has recently received donations of artwork that may have some value beyond what we would be likely to get by selling these items in the store. An art dealer has advised us on the worth of these items. We plan to put each piece on eBay in the near future.


Two of the pieces are contemporary works. "Little Abstraction" (pictured to the left) by Robert A. Nelson was done in 1981. Mr. Nelson is from Indianapolis. His art has been displayed in at several major museums. "xxx's" done by Sharon Lewkowitz Oran in 1983 is another piece we will be featuring on eBay.


The prize of the group is an oil painting pictured to the right. Habitat is having this one appraised. The painting was done by S. Cederburg. Part of the appraisal will be an attempt to find out who the subject was. If he is someone of some fame or prominence the value of the painting could increase significantly. Even without knowing the man's name we have been told the painting is a valuable piece.

Most of the artwork we sell in the ReStore are framed prints. Typically these sell for $5-15. Many of the people buying prints just want the frames. Selling these pieces of art on eBay will allow the pieces to be purchased by someone who will appreciate the art while allowing us to raise more money than we would receive otherwise.

Furniture from a Newark hotel

The ReStore has recieved a large furniture donation from a hotel in Newark. Thanks to the MI Group and volunteers from St. George's Technical High School we were able to fill our ReStore truck and a tractor trailor in one day with all of the furniture being donated. Our furniture room is fully packed with these items and a variety of other items.

The hotel donation includes end tables, coffee tables, credenzas, sofas, mirrors, small square tables, TVs, wall mount headboards and framed prints. Everything is on the floor in the furniture area except the headboards. We expect to have the headboards available for sale in the near future.

Along with the furniture we still have many of the lights and other electrical items from the donation last week. These have been selling well. We have many other pieces of electrical equipment such has dimmer switches, and exit signs. In many cases we have more than one of some items and plan to offer some of the duplicates on eBay.

New light fixtures in the ReStore

The ReStore has received five skids of lights and lighting equipment. United Electric Supply of New Castle, DE generously brought this donation to us yesterday. This is all brand new merchandise. We have been busy throughout the day getting items on the floor and priced. We still have a lot to sort through but we have a number of lights available on the sales floor now.

The lights come in a large variety of styles. The chandelier picture to the left has reversible lights so they can point up or down. The picture to the right is of a pineapple tree themed light. The center of the light is in the shape of a pineapple tree and each light has leaves at the base. Below is a Spectron Emergency Light. We have received about a dozen of these emergency lights and several more of a similar emergency light.



It will take a few days to completely unpack and price the rest of the items that have come in. We will be updating our facebook and web pages with many of the items as we get them on the sales floor.

Dozens of TVs available

Recently we received a donation of more two dozen TVs. This was on top of the several TVs we already had in the store. The large donation came from a hotel that is remodeling. We expect to get more towards the end of the month. The total donation will be around one hundred TVs! Since we don't have room for such a large number we are selling all TVs for just $20 each. This sale will last until we get the inventory down to a manageable level.

Habitat ReStore New Castle County now selling on eBay

Often the ReStore gets in items that are difficult to sell in the store. These items are not the kind of thing our customers usually purchase. In order to reach a wider audience we have begun selling on eBay. For sometime we have been accumulating items that we think may sell better through eBay.

Since we have only started we have sold just one item this way. A Jacoby Ellsbury bobblehead doll sold last week. Among the items we will be selling in the future are lineman gloves. We have a few pairs in the store. These gloves are designed to protect against electrical shock. We don't tend to get linemen in the store so we would not be able to sell them here. Our next item for sale will be a pair of pegs for a Honda motorcycle.
This type of items is specialized enough that it is unlikely a Honda rider needing grips will happen to come in the store. Selling on eBay should greatly increase our chances of finding the right customer for these kind of items.



We will be announcing items on Twitter as we put them on sale. Please watch for us on eBay, habitatnccrestore, or our Twitter page, @HfHReStoreNCC, to see what we have for sale.

ReStore is hiring

The ReStore is, once again, in need of a part-time driver/assistant. The position is Tuesday-Friday from 9am-2pm. The person in this position will assist with pick-ups of donations using the ReStore truck as well as helping out in the store as needed.

The job requires a valid driver's license and the ability to do heavy lifting. Anyone interested in the position can contact the ReStore Manager, Joe Robertson, at jrobertson@habitatncc.org or (302) 652-5181.