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STERLING HEIGHTS — If you’re a mom looking for good deals on resale items for children, the Sterling Heights Community Center has an upcoming event for you.
The Community Center, 40250 Dodge Park Road, will hold its annual Mom-2-Mom Sale 9 a.m.-1 p.m. March 2. According to organizers, over 100 vendors are expected to sell useful items for mothers, such as clothes, furniture and toys.
Sterling Heights Recreation Superintendent Bobbie Wilson said this is the sale’s third year, and she described how the event has grown so far.
“After the first year, we realized the demand would require us to expand — so we added an additional 24 vendor spaces to the event and added concessions based on our numerous requests from our vendors and shoppers,” Wilson said in an email.
Wilson said the event gives plenty of space in the aisles for shoppers to move around and visit the vendors. She said the most popular items at mom sales tend to be furniture, bikes, highchairs, “pack and play” baby playards, and monitoring systems.
“These are generally the first items to be sold, and I encourage our vendors to feature them in the front of their displays,” she explained.
Linda Hartwig, one of the vendors at the upcoming show, said she sells used books for kids as well as toys, adding that “some of our toys are new, but most of our stuff is gently used stuff.” She said this is her third year doing the Sterling Heights sale, and she said the second year was better than the first.
“I hope this one is going to be even better than that one,” she added. “This year we actually got two spots. We’re going to have more stuff than we had at the first two shows.”
Wilson recommended that anyone coming to the Mom-2-Mom Sale for the first time with kids should take along a wagon or stroller. She also encouraged moms to bring cash, especially singles.
“Some of our vendors may have Venmo or other forms of payment options, but the most popular form of payment at a Mom-2-Mom event is always cash,” she said.
Event admission is free for Sterling Heights residents and $3 for nonresidents. Learn more about the Mom-2-Mom Sale by visiting sterlingheights.gov and typing “Mom-2-Mom” in the search bar, or call (586) 446-2700.
