{"id":173597,"date":"2026-02-11T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173597\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:58:09","slug":"oaklands-white-elephant-warehouse-sale-is-running-until-march-1-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173597\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland&#8217;s White Elephant warehouse sale is running until March 1, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovingly painted dishware, bicycles and garden tools, a heavy cellarette that looks to be rescued from a 18th-century pirate ship \u2013 it\u2019s all ready and waiting to be adopted into your home at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whiteelephantsale.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oakland\u2019s annual White Elephant Sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/tag\/events\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fundraiser<\/a> that\u2019s collected more than $30 million in its six-decade run, benefitting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/01\/13\/famed-native-american-photographer-dugan-aguilar-oakland-museum\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Museum of California<\/a>, the sale gives attendees the chance to peruse a massive warehouse loaded with all kinds of carefully organized crud. There are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/tag\/arts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">paintings and sculptures<\/a> and intricate masks from far-off lands; laboratory and astronomical equipment; second-hand furniture and mirrors; clothing (perfect for early Halloween shopping) and\u2026 well, the list goes on and on, covering nine departments and 90,000-plus square feet of shopping.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Coral Zolczynski, of Oakland, checks bracelets for sale in the jewelry department during Week 2 of the annual White Elephant Sale organized by the Oakland Museum Women's Board in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. The popular sale draws hundreds of shoppers, and the funds raised during the event support the Oakland Museum of California's educational programs, exhibitions, and marketing. (Ray Chavez\/Bay Area News Group)\" width=\"5688\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/EBT-L-ELEPHSALE-0211-10-1.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"10109892\" \/>Coral Zolczynski, of Oakland, checks bracelets for sale in the jewelry department during Week 2 of the annual White Elephant Sale organized by the Oakland Museum Women\u2019s Board in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. The popular sale draws hundreds of shoppers, and the funds raised during the event support the Oakland Museum of California\u2019s educational programs, exhibitions, and marketing. (Ray Chavez\/Bay Area News Group)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Overseeing the well-managed chaos is a staff of mostly elderly volunteers who will happily point you to the treasure of your dreams, and explain why you must buy it now. \u201cGet the rush of adrenaline from snagging that one-of-a-kind item you can\u2019t find anywhere else,\u201d the sale\u2019s organizers write. \u201cOver the course of an entire year, our volunteers collect, sort and repair a massive selection of donated goods priced so you can score amazing deals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Details: Open warehouse days are 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Feb. 11 \u2013 14, 16, 19-21, and free-to-enter clearance weekend is 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Feb. 28 and March 1 at 333 Lancaster St., Oakland; before visiting, make reservation and purchase $5 ticket at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whiteelephantsale.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">whiteelephantsale.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lovingly painted dishware, bicycles and garden tools, a heavy cellarette that looks to be rescued from a 18th-century&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,82958],"class_list":{"0":"post-173597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news","11":"tag-oakland-yard-garage-sales-white-elephant-dates-address-hours-tickets-where-to-buy-museum-of-california-fundraiser-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}