DONATE TO THE
CAT TOWN YARD SALE
Donate like-new items from your home to benefit Cat Town! We’re seeking fun, unique, and highly sellable items to support our lifesaving mission. To help us prepare for your donations, we ask that you carefully review what we cannot accept before completing our brief form below.
What we want
Your services, skills, or craftwork: a month of Spanish tutoring, piano lessons, or car washes; resume advice; a batch of your grannie’s world-famous cookies; hand-knit scarves; or even a personalized haiku. Get creative!
Cat-themed accessories, kitchenware, and knick-knacks (because everything’s better with cats) in excellent or like-new condition.
Vintage, one-of-a-kind, and otherwise intriguing housewares, kitchen gadgets, musical instruments, jewelry, and other unique finds in excellent or like-new condition.
We’ll auction your donations to the highest bidder to help us save more lives this summer. Just complete the secure donation form below to tell us about each item you’d like to donate!
Please note: We’ll use only 300 total donations in our Yard Sale auction, and all other items will be donated to another organization — kindly keep this in mind if donating items of sentimental value. Unfortunately, we cannot coordinate pick-ups.
What we canNOt accept
Please carefully examine your items for wear and tear, missing parts and other defects and consider whether you might buy the items at a consignment shop in their current condition. If not, we cannot accept them. In general, we cannot accept any of the following types of items:
Items currently valued at under $10, regardless of their price when originally purchased
Anything broken, damaged, stained, or needing repair or cleaning
Large or bulky items (no more than 2-feet in size in any direction — our storage space is limited)
Clothing (but one-size-fits-all accessories like socks and scarves are acceptable!)
Busted or obsolete electronics (please confirm all needed parts are present and functioning — we don’t want donors winning something they can’t use and enjoy!)
Opened or expired personal care items (e.g. lotions, soaps, partially-burned candles)
Items personalized with names/initials (e.g. linens, towels, mugs, clothing), except silver or silver plate
Dangerous or hazardous items (e.g. ammunition, explosives, chemicals, flammable fluids)
Taxidermy, preserved animals, or animal parts (e.g. ivory, teeth, fur)
Cat harnesses or leashes, soft carriers or backpacks, and litter boxes
Kindly complete the form below for each item you’d like to donate to the Yard Sale. Submissions will be accepted through May 29, 2025, with Drop Offs in June. Please complete the form below to SCHEDULE your drop-off!
Questions? Let us know with an email to quinn[@]cattownoakland.org.