'The Good Shit Shindig' includes a shopping sale at School of Vintage in Surf City, Aug. 31

The Good Shit Shindig, an end-of-summer celebration hosted by School of Vintage co-owners Jeannine Errico and Erin Buterick, will be held at the store’s Surf City location at 1509 N. Long Beach Blvd., on Sunday Aug. 31, from 6 to 9 p.m. All items in the shop will be 40 percent off. Inventory includes vintage and handmade clothing and accessories as well as housewares.

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Most of the Surf City inventory will be moved
to the new Tuckerton location, which will
remain open during the off-season.

The Surf City shop will close for the season on Labor Day, before reopening in the springtime. The owners will still be available for bridal, consignment and alterations appointments.

The store’s second location, at the Tuckerton Emporium, located at 2 East Main St., which opened in March, will remain available to the public year 'round.

The event name stems from a blog the owners started called, “Shit People Say to Us,” which chronicles “ridiculous statements made by customers that are usually very rude and leave us scratching our heads,” Errico explained. At the end of the year, the owners donate $1 per blog post to the Southern Ocean County Animal Shelter in Manahawkin, “to try and turn a negative into a positive.”

“As another way to be positive, we started posting the ‘good shit’ people say in our store to our Facebook page, which is just as entertaining but less rage-inducing,” Errico said. “In fact, it usually leaves you feeling pretty good inside. So the name of the party is a direct homage to all the good shit people say and all the good shit people want: a big sale, food, drinks and music.”

Live music includes a solo performance by local singer/songwriter Patrick Sullivan and an acoustic show by Nicotine and Brown.

Tickets to the event cost $5. One dollar from each ticket will be donated to the Manahawkin animal shelter. Due to space, a limited number of tickets are available via the store’s website, schoolofvintage.com. Tickets are also available at the door but are first-come, first-served.

For more information, call 609-494-1171.

— Kelley Anne Essinger

This article was published in The SandPaper.