game night is what's called a friendly local game store while they do sell product they also serve as a third space somewhere where your friends family or even just strangers you meet there can all play your favorite games together and today is their gamer garage sale a major event they hold where independent merchants small local vendors and even charities are welcome to participate in one of their busiest days my name is Elizabeth Fox and I'm the owner of Game Night.

I'm Dave Lesneski and my position is general manager of Game Night.

Game Night to me is a store where people come be themselves.

It's a fun family environment.

People can be themselves, not worry about being judged or looked down upon in any way for enjoying their hobbies.

For us it's about the community and having our fellow gamers being able to come to a place that, you know, they feel welcome just to play their game, no judgment or anything like that.

So, with new friends and everything.

Most popular played games, Warhammer is a big one for us.

Agreed, and Magic the Gathering of course.

Magic the Gathering and then Star Wars Unlimited is pretty big here as well.

I would say definitely Dungeons and Dragons is a huge thing here.

We have our Ventures League on Tuesday nights, and we get a ton of people for that.

Our sale does start from just a community member that was in need.

Unfortunately, it was due to a passing of one of the community members, and his family needed a way to pay the bills, and he had a lot of the hobby stuff.

So we said, "You know what?

"Come in, you guys can have this entire part of the store, "and then just sell what you can and get the money for it."

And it just kind of blew up from there because everyone wanted a piece of it.

They're like, "I have stuff I want to get rid of."

And you can always find those hidden gems for your collection that you just don't know where to go otherwise.

So the vendors that we pick for our garage sale vary.

So we have a little bit of everything.

We have some vendors that do 3D printing, some that have board games, some that have card games, miniatures, things like that.

Just that way, there's a little bit for everyone.

There's a few vendors that we have here that come here frequently.

They're the first to sign up every month and they just enjoy having that second form of income.

We have a charitable company that we work with that comes in and they're here for every garage sale.

Meeples for Peoples.

Meeples for Peoples and they're here pretty religiously for it as well.

My name is Joey Jackson.

I am the director of Meeples for Peoples.

So Meeples for Peoples, what we do is we donate games to communities around the country.

That can be schools, libraries, hospitals, prisons, retirement communities, and we just donate games wherever people could use them because games really do help people with learning activities, interactions, all kinds of stuff.

But we love when we get to come here.

It's a good opportunity.

We get donated a lot of games that are not good to donate to like schools or anything like that because they're too big or too heavy.

So this is a good way for us to raise money and also offload some of the stuff that's really hard for us to donate.

My name is John R. Miller.

At the Gaming Garage sale, I'm here to basically empty out my basement full of games, hopefully getting them a new home for players to actually enjoy them.

I just have way too many.

To me, a friendly local game store balances between a business and a place that's open to people, where it becomes, you hear the term a lot of times, but it is a safe place where you can come in, meet people, you can be a shy person, you can be an outspoken person, just somewhere where you can come in and say, I want to play a game, and hopefully someone will be there to play with you.

This is what people call their third place, so like a second home after work.

I feel friendly is simply just a place where you can go and not be judged, feel comfortable, it's like a second home, where you can meet people with similar interests, similar likes, similar mindsets, and just really feel welcome.

Like Cheers, you know, where everyone knows your name.