Look like a million bucks, on a budget: Clothing sale at Morristown’s Lafayette school, Nov. 17-19

Rachel Ritter and Gina Gingrich, co-chairs of the Lafayette Learning Center Home and School Association. Photo by Kevin Coughlin
Rachel Ritter and Gina Gingrich, co-chairs of the Lafayette Learning Center Home and School Association. Photo by Kevin Coughlin
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Who says you have to go broke to look good?

Certainly not the moms of Morristown’s Lafayette Learning Center Home and School Association. They are selling an auditorium full of gently used clothing at the school from Nov. 17-19. At $1 for most items, you can replenish your wardrobe and still have enough money for a night out to show off your (almost) new threads.

“We’ve been collecting this stuff since September,” said Rachel Ritter, who was hard at work this week with her HSA co-chair, Gina Gingrich, unloading mounds of clothes.

Gina said proceeds will fund activities for Lafayette preschoolers, including visits by a traveling animal farm and Sprinkles the Clown. Some winter items will be given to the homeless, and needy families in the Morris School District will receive free bags of clothing.

“We want to help as many people as we can,” said Gina.

Photos by Rachel Ritter and Kevin Coughlin. Please click icon below for captions.

Now in its second year, the clothing sale got a hand from U-Store-It, which donated storage space at its Ridgedale Avenue facility and a truck to haul the boxes of clothes to the school. The Woman’s Club of Morristown helped collect clothing, and Assumption Church sent volunteers this week.

The school is at 31 Hazel Street, and the sale runs from 6 to 9 pm on Thursday and Friday and from 11 am to 4 pm on Saturday.

Earlier this year, Rachel won $5,750 for classroom technology in an Acme supermarket contest

“They’re amazing,” Lafayette Principal Karen Andre said of the parents association. “This is such a talented H.S.A. I am a fortunate principal.”

Rachel Ritter and Gina Gingrich, co-chairs of the Lafayette Learning Center Home and School Association. Photo by Kevin Coughlin
Rachel Ritter and Gina Gingrich, co-chairs of the Lafayette Learning Center Home and School Association. They have spearheaded a clothing sale that runs from Nov. 17-19. Photo by Kevin Coughlin

 

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