This Year’s University Of Maine ‘Clean Sweep Sale’ Is Not Happening

Folks at the University of Maine say that one yearly tradition will not be happening this month, but they hope it will resume next year.

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Every year, for as far back as I can remember, at some point in May after the students have left campus for the summer, the University of Maine has held what they call a "Clean Sweep Sale."

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It used to take place in front of some old storage units on the University of Maine campus in Orono until it grew so large that they've held it at the Alfond Arena for the past few years.

Volunteers typically spend days collecting and sorting all of the items students left. behind from that year, including old furniture and small appliances, clothes, and utensils

They then arrange all of these items inside the Alfond Arena, priced super cheap, and let the public through the doors to buy the things (kind of like one enormous indoor yard sale!)

Only this year it won't be taking place because they have nowhere to hold the Clean Sweep Sale.

The Alfond Arena is closed for renovations at the moment and is expected to be under construction till next fall, sale organizers say. But they do think the event will return in 2025 when the work to the Alfond is complete.

"We expect to be back next year."

Because the school didn't spread the word about the sale this year, as they have in years past,  they didn't get as many things donated or left behind.

"There was not as much left, because we were not really advertising."

What they did end up with, they made sure went to a few good causes.

"We have found people to help us donate what was left."

So while it's a bummer that the sale won't take place this year (as it really was a great place to buy things like coffee makers, couches, and cabinets on the cheap) we will just have to be patient and wait until next year.