We accept used Christmas Items that you might want to get rid of.
Many people decide to clean out the attic or garage at any time of the year. Often spring cleaning or moving from one house to another, people want to part with some excess Christmas decorations but would prefer to find a new home for these items rather then throw them away.
Our display welcomes as many people as can find a parking space during the holidays and our display lately has been growing phenomenally with used Christmas decorations donated by fans of our display. Our goal with our display is simple: To make the most "ultimate" Christmas display the Tampa area has ever seen!
To donate please drop me an E-Mail at: joe(a)rawlsroad.com You can arrange to drop off or have us pick up the following items there!
Items we DO accept and appreciate:
New in the box Incandescent Christmas lights are always appreciated.
LED form Christmas lights, new or used provided at least 1/2 the string is working.
Used Wire frame figures working or not such as polar bears, reindeer, penguins, etc.
Used Inflatable Decorations of all types
Used extension cords indoor and outdoors
3-way outlets or multi-plug devices
Items that can be decorated such as motorcycles, broken jet-skis, small boats, etc
Artificial Christmas trees, indoor or outdoors
PVC Candy Canes, lighted or not or similar type sign decorations.
Indoor and outdoor Christmas items are accepted.
Used Disco, DJ, or stage lighting of all types. Strobe lights, Spencer's gift type light affects
Used Ladders, PVC pipes (at least 10 ft)
All sorts of lights or lighting are acceptable, even if not intended for Christmas use, it might work or us!
Slide projectors, video projectors, flat panel monitors.
Air, servo or hydraulic items or things that can be used for animatronics.
Speakers, amplifiers, radios, boom boxes, used projection TV's.
Many things Christmas related or not might be acceptable. We do ask, when it comes to used Christmas lights, we will accept lights used for one season, but not broken, worn out or badly faded string lights. The reason is, we want our display to be bright, vivid, colorful and fresh each year.
We "throw away" more lights each year then most other houses are decorated with. We replace all faded colored lights or even clear lights when they hit their 4th year. Strings that are more then 3 years old become too problematic with bad bulbs to use on a display as large as ours.
Some things might already be old, we will attempt to fix all broken items as feasible. Some items might be already old and used and might be "consumed" by wear and tear in a season or two. We'll do our best to make the most of your donation, but once it is determined to be "useless", we'll likely have to throw it away as storage space is a valuable commodity here. At least you can have the satisfaction of having your items enjoyed by more then 15,000 annual visitors.
We are not rich people, our Christmas display is very expensive to maintain and expand each year. Our expansions to the scale that our display and technology has become has been mostly supported by generous donations to this project by our visitors. This has allowed us not only to compete with fantastic displays around the world, but also to be often seen as a great innovator.