Move It!

For our members, only! We need to move some of these big space eaters! We also have a topless flat file that needs a home for $50, lots of wooden $5 chairs, and plenty of other finds, some free, some not. Bring a friend and a truck and take the desk! We will open the loading dock for you! These things need to go! First come, first serve, no holds.

free

Book binding machine for comb style binding,  $50

credenza - free

cartridges for the cricut cutter system $5

Easels $30

desk, free

Family Fun Workshop @ Lynn Museum Tomorrow!

PUZZLE BOOKS WORKSHOP   

Saturday, May 11th, 10:30 -12 pm

Join us this Saturday for a family workshop at the Lynn Museum! This workshop focuses on using recyclables and will be part kirigami, part flexagon, part bookmaking, and all fun! Families will have the opportunity to create a four-page puzzle book filled with your own words, drawing, collages, and much more! Families are encouraged to come to create and learn together.

The Lynn Museum and Historical Society is the hub of the Downtown Lynn Cultural District, the first designated Cultural District in the State of Massachusetts. After your workshop and visiting the museum, take a walk by the ocean and enjoy some fresh air, and end at Lime Rickey's for lunch!

No pre-registration required. RSVP's welcomed.

This program is $10 per family or individual adult and is open to the public.




"This program is supported in part by a grant from the Lynn Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency."

New stuff! Woodland delights!

Lots of nice decorative pieces! Also, we have lots of those feather wreaths again, and St. Patrick's Day decor galore!

Get em' while the gettin's good!

While we have enough felt to last a while, we do have limited fun color packs! We also have a few feather wreaths, limited number of paper rolls, and some fun paper flour sacks, which we think would make lovely paper dresses... Have fun, keep creating, and above all, PLAY!

Try us for $20, Lynn Museum Workshop, Drop-off Day!

Our weekends are getting pretty busy around here!

Saturday May 4th, Try us for $20

Today only, if you are on the fence about joining or renewing you can try us out for $20 *per person* and take advantage of all the benefits of membership. Passes will not be issued to use another day. This is today only. This is a significant savings over our regular $30 per cart price!

If you need to bring someone to help you load your goods into your vehicle, that's fine, but they cannot accompany you while you shop. Please honor our *per person* policies!

Saturday May 11th, Puzzle Books at the Lynn Museum

Join us at the Lynn Museum for our next family workshop! Part kirigami, part bookmaking... all fun. Create a puzzle book to fill with your own words, drawing, collages, etc.! The newly renovated Lynn Museum is a perfect place for families to enjoy creating together and learning together.

Directions The Lynn Museum is completely accessible. Parking available at the museum and on street.

As always, the workshops are $10 per family, or $10 per individual adult!

Drop-ins welcome, from 10:30am -12:00.   RSVP's are appreciated!

"This program is supported in part by a grant from the Lynn Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency." 

Saturday May, 18th,  Drop-off day

Spring cleaning? Need a place to donate your extra stuff? Drop-off days are here!

We will be hosting regular drop-off days for individuals to bring by their goodies. Whenever you drop off your stuff, you will be entered into a monthly raffle drawing! Each pound of extras you drop off earns you a raffle ticket! 

Looking to volunteer? We would love to have extra hands on drop-off days!  Contact Jocelyn to volunteer on a Drop-off Day.

small file cabinets, racks, paper cutter, and metal shelves

small file cabinets $5 and $10, 8 available

LARGE paper cutter $75, one available

Brand new Racks $20 each lots available

metal shelves, $25, 4 available

Please Help Keep Extras in the Green

How green is Extras?

Some facts:

• Average value of materials that leave with each person/visit: $319

• Average cost of a visit: $12.50

• Average weight of materials saved from the waste stream, EVERY WEEK: 1 ton

• Cost of rent per year: $18,000

• Cost of Truck per year, (without which we would have almost nothing to give): $14,000.00

• Total wage cost in the last 365 days for all employees: $35,412.05

• Total wages of Jodi, executive director in the last 365 days: $0

• Amount we need to keep us going till next Earth Day, over and above membership and sales of extras: $20,000.00.
  

If you believe in reuse, being a responsible citizen of Earth, and that all children deserve to have enough materials to make mistakes, and enjoy learning please donate.

Donate $20 & get: a ticket to our silent auction June 1, (there will be food, drinks and music!)

Donate $50 & get: a ticket to the auction and a vintage canvas bag

Donate $100 & get: 2 auction tickets, a vintage canvas bag and a small piece of hand made art

Donate $150 & get: 2 auction tickets, a vintage canvas bag with goodies inside, a small piece of hand made art and your name/business/message on our wall of recycling trucks for the next year on a hand made plaque.

Donate any amount! You will receive lots of love no matter what you can give, and all supporters will be listed on our website and blog. Every dollar really does matter to us, a lot.

❤ Everyone at Extras

quick note on the donation site: make sure that you use whole dollars no decimal points or commas.

Don't like to donate online? No problem, we love checks, our address is Extras, 20 Wheeler ST. Suite 302, Lynn MA 01902

Have questions, suggestions, or thoughts? We love getting phone calls Wednesday-Saturday 781-599-9939
Thank you!!

Closed Today

Hello Friends, Extras will be closed today. 
Even though we are on the North Shore, Jodi and Dan both come in from Boston, and that is simply not possible today. Please be safe, we'll see you tomorrow.

Open today 11-5

We have slightly shorter hours today for vacation week. But we have more than enough stuff! Come in to get a load of felt, desk organizers, binders, linens and so much more.

EXTRAS Artist Jonathan Donahue, Somerville Open Studios

Have we mentioned how much we love seeing your work, and that we would love to help you advertise your work to our audience?

Thank you to EXTRAS member Jonathan Donahue for sending us your beautiful work and descriptions of how you used our materials!

To see Jonathan's work in person, go visit him during Somerville Open Studios, May 4-5, 10 AM - 6 PM, at the Right Now Gallery, 86 Joy Street, Union Square, Somerville.

Thanks again Jonathan!

1. shrine to myself using tiles and shiny paper

2. diorama made in a drawer, using EXTRAS tiles to line the interior

 3. Lizard using your EXTRAS papers as background

4. decorated tiles

5. little 3-D scene using on of those glass panes from EXTRAS

To submit your work to EXTRAS to include in our blog, send an email to Jocelyn.

We Love This Stuff

We are ready for all of our vacation week teachers! Our shelves are full of really beautiful and fun materials. Please come and take them away and share them with the young minds in your programs!

cardboard tubes

fun glass tile

lots of little pieces of beautiful glass

fun felt

file cabinets -3drawer $15, two drawer, $10

film reels

drying racks / sorting racks. We have lots of these... all different sizes. Ask for pricing.

wood chunks

Felt!

Free and Unlimited for Members.

Get Organized....

even though we are not!

We have more office supply thingamajigs than you could shake a stick at. While you are doing your spring cleaning, come get some baskets and bins and sorters and magazine holders and binders and desk cups and .... you get the picture:

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