Events & News
Annual Town Wide Tag Sale:
Always the First Saturday in May
May 4, 2024 is our 18th Year! “May the 4th be with you”
Deadline to be on the map: April 26, 2024
2024 Tag Sale Form (register your sale)
TAG Sale MAP Advertising 2024 (advertise your biz)
Started in 2006 as a creative and fun way to bring our community together and show it off to the world, Pomfret’s Town Wide Tag Sale is sponsored & organized by the Pomfret Proprietors Association.
Pomfret residents and organizations offers tag sale bargains galore! Visitors purchase a map the morning of the sale for just $2 that shows dozens of locations all over town (often 50 to 60 locations!).
Profits from map sales and registrations go right back into our community to benefit local groups & causes, including organization, charities and occasional student scholarships.
Over the years, it has become a popular local tradition that is so successful other area towns have replicated it. Our Town Wide Tag Sale brings throngs of visitors from other towns and even neighboring states. It has gotten attention in many local and regional publications and other media outlets (even TV!).
At our 2014 event, we raised over $1,000 for the First Congregational Church of Pomfret to help rebuild their church destroyed by a winter fire. In 2015, we donated $500 to support our all-volunteer staffed Pomfret Times newspaper! Since its inception in 2006, we have raised and donated thousands of dollars to local causes and organizations.
MORE TAG SALE INFO
A kind note from a happy 2024 tag sale host:
Our sale was a huge success. 85% of the items sold for 50 cents and we made 730 dollars.. I didn’t count but my daughter and I estimate that we had at least 500 people in our yard during the day. I forgot to put up a No EARLY BIRD sign and we had people ringing our door bell at 7:30am!!!. It just never stopped until about 2:10—only a dozen people and then lots of people until the end at 4pm, We had people that traveled from Providence, Auburn, Wooster, Storrs, I couldn’t believe that these people traveled for miles to get to this tag sale. One women traveled an hour and a half and said she comes every year and wouldn’t miss it.
At the end of the day I asked some how many tag sales they had been to and 6-8 was the usual. Mother Nature co-operated this year with a rainy late spring. My pink weeping cherry tree was still in bloom as were about 150 tulips in the yard. I had people taking pictures of my flower beds😊 Most had purchased the map and were very well prepared with dollar bills, change and large bags to carry their goods home. I spent three weeks washing clothes, and had at least 500 pieces. All priced at 50 cents. I had a few teachers looking at the books. Instead of fifty cents I told them 5/1.00. One teacher had 25 books. Our basement thanks you. We can see the floor again. My husband has several truck loads for Salvation Army. We were so busy that we never took any pictures. What a beautiful day for a sale.
So thank you again. I know that this must have been a lot of work. Joyce Harris
Read about… our 11th annual Tag Sale in the Norwich Bulletin.
Other Events
Pomfret Proprietors’ Meetings
We meet on a monthly basis from March through November at the Vanilla Bean Cafe. For more information contact Louisa at [email protected]
Connecticut Audubon Society at Pomfret
Classes, lectures, bird walks, kids camps and special programs are ongoing year-round.
For more information, call 860.928.4948 or contact [email protected].
See schedule at www.ctaudubon.org
Pomfret School
This private boarding schools hosts many interesting educational, arts, cultural and community events open to the public year-round. www.pomfretschool.org/Page/Calendar
Windham-Tolland 4-H Camp
Ragged Hill Woods Program offers environmental education, including field trips, leadership and team building programs and professional environmental science development for educators. Open for bookings from Sept 1 to May 31. Teen week-ends, camper game days, an annual 5 K race, huge annual auction and tag sale, and Walktober events are also offered off season. The lodge and camp facilities on the 270 acre property with woodlands and scenic lakes are available for rent during non camping season.
Contact them at 860-974-3379 or find out more at www.4hcampct.org.
Pomfret Public Library
Hosts numerous interesting programs for all ages! You need not be a resident to participate. pomfretlibrary.org
The following websites host calendars of regional events. Also visit our Facebook page for current happenings in town!
Pomfret in the Media
- “Picture Perfect Pomfret” is featured in the September/October 2009 issue of Worcester Living.
- Pomfret and some of it businesses and attractions are featured in Yankee Magazine’s March/April 2009 issue!
- A rural town that’s pretty to look at and has plenty to offer (Boston Globe)
- 134 Miles of Yankee Charm