BNP Chit Chat ‘Back2School’ Market Day 1

Fri Aug 15 2025 at 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm UTC-05:00

Gethsemane Lutheran Church | Hopkins

BNP Chit Chat \u2018Back2School\u2019 Market Day 1
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Join us for a Buy Nothing Market 2-day event! Both Friday (5-6pm) and Saturday (9-10am), bring your gifts and shop for other people’s gifts! All items are free.
Chit Chat "Back to School" Buy Nothing Market Day is a Buy Nothing gifting event, to be hosted at Gethsemane Church parking lot (next to Alice Smith on Highway 7/Minnetonka Mills, just west of 169).
All are welcome to join, see all of our treasures and take home whatever you please - absolutely free! Even if you don't want more stuff, come meet our local Buy Nothing group community.
All giving is good giving!
*For Gifters:*
• Please arrive before 9 to set up, so you are not driving while people are walking around.
• *Pack It In/Pack It Out* - You are in charge of removing anything you bring to the event that isn't gifted. You are welcome to make arrangements with a neighbor to take your belongings along with their own.
• People may display gifts in their trunk, or on tables and picnic blankets. You are not required to bring stuff in order to take stuff, nor is there a limit your gifts received, or anything where there are strings attached. If you are gifting,
• We recommend putting a sheet over anything in your trunk you are not intending to gift.
• Consider bringing anything that might make you comfortable during the event. Lawn chair, sunscreen, water, snacks, etc.
• Have a plan for your gifts after the event. If you are intending to take them to a donation center, check the hours. If you intend to take the gifts home and list them in Buy Nothing, you might want to take pictures while you are at the event. If you need someone to take your extra gifts with theirs, make arrangements ahead of time.
• Please feel free to preview some of your gifts in the event or your local BNP group that you are bringing to the event! Especially if you do it in the couple of days prior, it helps people know what to look for if they’re looking for anything in particular, and reminds people we have an event coming up.
Join Chit Chat - BNP Hopkins/Minnetonka Neighborhood for local updates and our next event. https://www.facebook.com/groups/476886213523041
Find your local Buy Nothing Project group: https://buynothingproject.org/find-a-group
*Unable to Attend?*
As always, if the date/time don’t work for you, anyone is welcome to arrange and host a gifting event. The only rule for hosting Buy Nothing gifting events is that people can not be required to bring gifts or limit how many gifts they receive by how many they bring (that would be a swap and gets into sticky legal situations we are trying to avoid, but more importantly is contrary to our mission of “no strings attached“). If you would like more information and tips on hosting a gifting event, please speak with one of our local admins.
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Gethsemane Lutheran Church, 449 Gethsemane Rd, Hopkins, MN 55343, United States

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