Register To Volunteer
Please check our upcoming sale page to see when these links will open!
All week-of-sale volunteer opportunities are found via our partner site. Log in using your consignor number or volunteer username or create a new volunteer-only account here.
Interested in a presale volunteer opportunity? Register to post Half-Pint Resale posters or bring postcards to daycares as a Canvassing Volunteer.
One of the best benefits of volunteering is that you get to shop before everyone else. Does your child only wear soft pants (with no prints, zippers, buttons, or snaps)? Mine does, and sorting through picked over racks never leaves enough of the very few pants he will wear. Volunteers get to see the largest selection.
There are volunteer opportunities to fit everyone’s preferences. Help get the word out on your own time by canvassing. Sign up for an evening shift. Or sign up for two shifts and be someone’s best friend by getting a second pass to the pre-sale.
Half-Pint Resale is successful for everyone because of our awesome volunteers! Because it takes 250+ fabulous volunteers make the sale go off without a hitch, it’s difficult for us to make a lot of changes. When we are short volunteers, it affects others who have made the commitment. We understand schedules change (ours do to!) but only register for shifts that you know you can make or for which you have secured child care.
Often people ask us where help is needed most. Typically, we are in most need of help during the Thursday 12:30, Saturday 10:30 and 1:30, and Sunday 10:30, 12:30, and 3:30 shifts. However you decide to volunteer, please join the Half-Pint family! Register at the link above, or keep reading to learn more.
Volunteering details
Half-Pint Resale is successful for everyone because of our awesome volunteers! We appreciate everyone who takes the time to help this community event happen.
Due to a number of no-shows and last-minute shift cancellations we have had in the past, we do have a no-show policy (described further below). We hope that these policies will ensure everyone’s volunteer experience is fantastic.
Volunteer shifts – Shifts are all three hours and fifteen minutes long. (The extra fifteen minutes allows for training and a slight overlap with outgoing volunteers from the previous shift.) Volunteers do everything from setting up the sales floor, helping consignors check-in their items, working the check-out stations at the sale, cleaning up after the sale, and helping with barcode scanning. Read more here.
One entrance to the volunteer sale per volunteer shift – There is only one entrance to the volunteer sale per shift worked, so if your partner, or mom, or friend want to shop the presale with you, they will need to sign up for a volunteer shift as well. You may also volunteer a second shift to “share” with a shopping buddy.
Note the instructions listed for each shift on the volunteer registration form or read the descriptions prior to signup – This will give you information as to the type of activities that you will be doing – some shifts require you to be quick, some require you to work fast amidst a lot of crazy fun, some require heavy lifting. Most of the opportunities are not physically demanding, although you probably will be on your feet for most of the shift.
Cancellations – Please consider this commitment carefully and make sure you are available before you sign up to volunteer. If you are unable to fulfill your volunteer commitment you must notify us by email one week before the beginning of the sale. (See the “Upcoming Sale” page for the exact date). If you need to cancel after this date, you may find a replacement for your shift with no penalty. You can let us know of this change by email.
No-show or cancellation of volunteer shift consequences – Volunteers who are also consignors will have their consignor percentage dropped to 50%. Non-consignor Volunteers will not be eligible to volunteer for the following sale.
Extenuating circumstances – In the case of an emergency once the sale begins, you MUST CALL OR TEXT our emergency volunteer phone number at 608-909-1342 to let us know that you are not able to volunteer. Some extenuating circumstances will be considered.
Using your volunteer pass but not volunteering – Volunteers who use their volunteer pass and then DO NOT VOLUNTEER, no matter the extenuating circumstances, will be asked to fill a volunteer shift in between sales or a double at the next sale, or will be excluded from volunteering in the future.
Please be on time for your shift – All volunteer shifts come with training. Volunteers are asked to show up ON TIME because the first ten minutes of their shift will be getting the scoop on everything they need to know from one of our amazing sale Volunteer Coordinators.
Click here to read descriptions of our volunteer positions.