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Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Mon May 15, 06 6:36 pm Post subject: Car Boot Sales
Bought 8 demi-johns for ï¿½4 at a car boot sale yesterday, and Miff's brother bought him a cider press for ï¿½12 at a car boot in Somerset last week. Was wondering what other bargains people have picked up at boot sales?

Stacey

Joined: 18 Jul 2005
Posts: 8380
Location: Kernow

Posted: Mon May 15, 06 6:47 pm Post subject:
Yesterday I got a Le Creuset caserole for ï¿½4.00 Yes ï¿½4.00 And 7 balls of mohair for ï¿½3. My youngest got a trilobyte for a quid and I bought a lovely hand crocheted hat for my bezzie mates' daughter for a quid. A while ago I got 3 metres of beautiful 50's heavy cotton with a rose print for 10p I heart car boot sales

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Mon May 15, 06 7:17 pm Post subject:
A cat basket - big and strong for ï¿½5 and a plastic greenhouse - which turns out to be the one with four shelves and in perfect condition for another ï¿½5 (I didn't barter ) Very delighted - but I had actually gone looking for an old fireguard or three I also find it's the best place for plants - at least then you know they will like the local conditions.

pippa

Joined: 05 Apr 2006
Posts: 5

Posted: Mon May 15, 06 7:24 pm Post subject:
I buy loads of stuff from boot fairs. Have had masses of winemaking equipment and lots of fishing stuff , all very cheap. I manage to pick up some lovely dressing up outfits for my grandaughters and have picked up a solid metal pig trough for my daughter for a pound and a hand powered sausage maker too, again a pound ,amongst loads of other bargains. I love bootfairs and I love bargains.

Stacey

Joined: 18 Jul 2005
Posts: 8380
Location: Kernow

Posted: Mon May 15, 06 7:43 pm Post subject:

pippa wrote:

and have picked up a solid metal pig trough for my daughter for a pound

You make your children sleep in a trough?

Hi Pippa - welcome

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
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Posted: Mon May 15, 06 7:59 pm Post subject:

Stacey wrote:

pippa wrote:

and have picked up a solid metal pig trough for my daughter for a pound

You make your children sleep in a trough?

Hi Pippa - welcome

Best place for them I'd say - kids of today are far to pampered if you ask me (in best Grumpy Old Woman voice)

nora

Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Posts: 1539
Location: West Yorkshire

Posted: Mon May 15, 06 8:02 pm Post subject:

pippa wrote:

a hand powered sausage maker too

Hello Pippa

Have you made any sausages with it yet?

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 7658
Location: France

Posted: Mon May 15, 06 8:10 pm Post subject:
Welcome to the forum Pippa Car boot sales? Hmmm ho we miss them. I got all my demi-jons and the rest of my winemaking gear (hydrometer/jar, syphons, fermentation locks, etc etc) from Rufforth car boot (Rob might know of it) while we were still in England. Could we maybe have a "car boot sale" part of Downsizer within the traders section. No cash, just swaps of course Wine anyone?

Penny Outskirts

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Posted: Mon May 15, 06 8:11 pm Post subject:
Sorry forgot to say - Hello Pippa

Stacey

Joined: 18 Jul 2005
Posts: 8380
Location: Kernow

Posted: Mon May 15, 06 8:39 pm Post subject:

Penny wrote:

Stacey wrote:

pippa wrote:

and have picked up a solid metal pig trough for my daughter for a pound

You make your children sleep in a trough?

Hi Pippa - welcome

Best place for them I'd say - kids of today are far to pampered if you ask me (in best Grumpy Old Woman voice)

Couldn't agree more. I was surprised at the luxury

pippa

Joined: 05 Apr 2006
Posts: 5

Posted: Tue May 16, 06 8:46 am Post subject:
hi i gave my trough to my daughter becuse my husband got to big for it .No i have not made any sausages yet but let you know when i do pippa

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Tue May 16, 06 10:31 am Post subject:
Haven't been to one for a while, but we had a small one in the village a year ago for Hall funds and I sold tons of jam & shutney, as well as buying a 'new' stereo for ï¿½2. Must go to another soon.

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Tue May 16, 06 10:35 am Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

Haven't been to one for a while, but we had a small one in the village a year ago for Hall funds and I sold tons of jam & shutney, as well as buying a 'new' stereo for ï¿½2. Must go to another soon.

I hadn't been to one for a while either, but with Miff's bargain ï¿½12 cider press, thought I'd go and see what I could find

jamsam

Joined: 21 Oct 2005
Posts: 2560
Location: erm....i dont know, its dark.

Posted: Tue May 16, 06 1:17 pm Post subject:

oh mochyn..shutney!!!!!!!

that sound like a london borough...

my best sale in a car boot was a pram my mum got out os a skip which i cleaned and sorted out, it went for ï¿½45!!!
ive bought some very nice denby jugs and teapots for pennies and i got a huge ikea rug for ï¿½5, it was so big i had to give it to my sister as it wouldnt fit in my flat or mums house..about ï¿½150 new i think..

Bovey Belle

Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Posts: 77

Posted: Wed May 17, 06 5:47 am Post subject:

I am a complete addict and our entire house is furnished and decorated with stuff from auction and Car Boot Sales (we don't do "new" as a rule). I love the thrill of the chase - you never know what you will find. Books are the things I swoop on first and rarely come back empty-handed. Then costume jewellery for my eldest daughter, mincers (I seem to have a breeding herd now), china etc. Hard to think of a candidate for best buy, but have had a couple of engagement rings for ï¿½1 a piece, a big copper ladle for ï¿½8 a few years back now (was worth about ï¿½80 at the time, but auction prices have gone down in recent years), brand new seed-stacker still in box (ï¿½5) recently - exactly what I needed too. Loads of books at anything from 10p to ï¿½1.50 a time, including some rareish botanical ones. Wine-making stuff too of course. Oh, and once a tidy English leather pony saddle for ï¿½10, which I sold on for ï¿½75. Gosh, that was a few years back now.

I "viewed" a lovely boot sale up near Aberaeron last Sunday, bought some herbs, a Portmeirion vase (ï¿½4.50) and may go there to sell my junk and plants in a couple of weeks' time. It had a lovely atmosphere - far nicer than the one on Carmarthen showground which is our nearest.

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