Needs From: Central Iowa RSVP

Overflow is looking for friendly volunteers who love people, to run our register.  Register volunteers have the full support of our staff to help answer questions or step in as needed. Our shifts are in two hour time slots.  Wednesday-Friday 10-6PM and on Saturdays between the hours of 10AM and 4PM.    

We opened our second store- Overflow Thrift Store-Furniture and More in 2020. Because of this, our Register Volunteer needs have increased. Overflow remains committed to providing affordable goods in the Ames area.  Helping out on the register is a great way to help us to do this. We also are blessed with simply wonderful customers and other volunteers.  Please consider joining our team. We'd love to have you be a part of our Overflow family!

At Overflow, our donors can request a furniture pick-up.  We have a box truck and a driver, but we need someone to assist our driver with moving the furniture into our truck.  The donors will sit the furniture in either their garage or their driveway.  From there it goes loaded onto the truck.  

Then the truck goes to our Overflow Thrift Store-Furniture and More location, where the furniture gets unloaded at our loading dock.  

 

The volunteer(s) who takes on this challenge can park at our Overflow South location.  The time slot we need filled is from 8:45-11:00 on Monday mornings.  

In the bin pricing department, our volunteers pull one pre-sorted bin from the shelf and price each item according to the dollar amount on the bin- using a pricing gun.  From there, the items get put out onto our shelves by a Housewares Stocking volunteer.  This is a great way to help support the missions that Overflow Thrift Store supports locally and globally. Thank you for considering!

We have an abundance of clothing that needs to be hung up and tagged-getting it ready to be put out onto the sales floor.  In the clothing hanging department, we have bins of clothing that are already sorted into price categories.  Clothing needs to be hung, then when the rack is full, it needs to be tagged.  We have a colored tag system that coincides with the price of the clothing.  This is a great way to help to support Overflow and our various missions that we support locally and globally.  We need you! Please come join our team-we'd love to have you. 

 

Donation Sorter volunteers sort incoming donations into different categories.  We have a great new system set up to sort donations at both of our locations. Each sorter has their own department to work in. 

We currently have openings all day Mondays and Saturdays from 10-4 and Tuesday-Friday from 10-6. Let us know if you want to join our donation receiving crew! It's so interesting to see what donations are going to come through our tables.  Items from stores all over the world find their way to Overflow.  Please consider blessing us with your time-we would love to have you!

 

 

 

 

 

Our shoe department continues to grow! We need regular volunteers who can be trained to sort, process and price shoes.  Some examples of processing are polishing shoes, cleaning shoe white walls and lightly cleaning the bed of sandals.  If you want to volunteer occasionally, the pricing and sizing of shoes always needs to be done and is easy to learn. 

If you have a family-this is a great way to find shoes to purchase for your family at amazing prices-all while helping to support missions locally and globally.

 

 

We are looking for clothing sorters Monday-Saturday!

Volunteer Clothing Sorters:

Check clothes for stains, broken zippers and tears Sort clothes into men's, women's, and children's Generally know the value of clothing brands Have an eye for detail Can volunteer at least 2 hours week!

Let us know if you want to join our clothing team today!

 

 

Overflow Thrift Store is looking for volunteers to help in our Linens department. The sort of things you might do in Linens, would be sorting incoming donations and restocking items on the sales floor. Linens volunteers work with towels, materials, sheets, comforters and much more. Let us know if you are interested in this opportunity! we'd love to have you!

 

Overflow Thrift Store is looking for some help 2 hours or more per week in the housewares Department.  Duties would include stocking the store with housewares and straightening and organizing items as needed. The Housewares department is good sized and has quite a few categories but can easily be learned. Housewares includes picture frames, pots and pans, baskets, sporting good, DIY, vases and more.  

We have opened a second location in Ames and both of our locations sell housewares-so volunteers are needed at both locations.  Thank you for considering-volunteering in housewares is a great way to help out and it's also a great way to decorate your own home! Our affordable prices make it easier for our customers to afford and our volunteers can make purchases as well.

We have a great group of volunteers who test our electronics.  The next step is pricing the electronics. You will be provided with a pricing guide and your own station.  Special items can be looked up on Ebay, then priced according to our special pricing guide. It's actually pretty interesting to see all of the different types of electronics that come through the electronics station! Come join the fun-you will be a huge blessing to our community, to our staff and to the missions that we serve.