Make £10 a day March 2017 - everybody most welcome to join

January2015 wrote: »

Hello everyone

Mum is fine. Surgery went well. I think she will be sorry to go home - she is loving the company on the ward. They don't keep people in long after surgery do they - home tomorrow.

On the money raising front - I haven't done anything ....but I've got £250 extra without even trying :eek: I got an email at work....25 years long service award, please come and collect your gift vouchers ......you've never seen anyone move so fast :rotfl:

I am going to use the vouchers towards buying Christmas presents.....so this is going in my Xmas 2017 challenge pot

Good news about your Mum:T. Sending hugs all round.


What a brilliant result, £250 in vouchers:j. Sounds like a great place to work and you sound like a lovely loyal employee:beer:. I can't imagine staying 25 years at most of the places I've worked in the past;)

FatVonD wrote: »

Thank you

Another question, please, if you don't mind... I think it is you that does the table top sales(?) I have managed to locate one near to home, I'm doing it next month and it will only be their second and I've never done one before. What are people normally selling and do they price it up or is it more an 'off the top of your head' pricing system like at a car boot sale?

Always happy to help if I can:)

Personally, I very rarely price anything up whether its a car boot or tabletop sale. Some people go to the trouble of writing labels for every single thing so it's just a matter of choice really. The only time I put prices on is if I've got boxes of items for people to rummage through, in which case I might put a sign on the box 'everything 50p each' or whatever price it is. Likewise with cheap paperback books if I'm doing a multi-buy offer, something like '40p each, any 3 for £1' type of thing.

If you are selling fairly expensive books that are obviously not just worth a few pennies each then it's a good idea to pricemark. You can always accept a lesser offer, nothing's set in stone.


One exception to pricemarking (I seem to have made a few already:rotfl:) is expensive stuff such as when I tried to sell my 'as new' breadmaker. I wanted to make it obvious that I wasn't selling it for loose change:eek:. If I do price stuff like that up and see people looking and then making to walk away I usually call after them and say I'm prepared to take a slightly lesser offer.


I'm prepared to be flexible on most prices as my aim is to clear the stuff not take most of it home again;)


As for your question about what people are normally selling, well I've no real answer to that. Could be anything at all but remember that you'll have much less room to spread your items out, unlike a car boot sale. Depends on the space allowed but you'll possibly just have the table and a bit of space on the floor. It's not usually possible to spread much out on the ground as it impedes movement in a confined space.


Another point is that you'll have to carry everything in to the venue from your car which isn't easy if you've had to park a fair distance from the door. You'll need a few trips back and forth to the car so don't take anything too bulky or heavy. Been there, done that:eek:. Nightmare getting everything in and set up. There is often only about 30 minutes between the doors opening for sellers and them letting the buyers in. But again, all sales are different.


I've got some plastic lidded storage boxes that I stash everything into, makes transferring between car and hall a lot easier. I tend to sell light, soft items such as sewing materials etc, other craft stuff, CDs and DVDs, books, jewellery, smallish bric a brac, small bits of tech, toiletries and perfumes (unwanted gifts). Some people set up a folding clothes rail and sell clothes but check with the organiser that there'll be room for you to set one up.


One word of caution:o. As it's a new venue it might not have an established clientele or even be well publicised and there may be very few buyers. Don't expect too much. I don't want to put a dampener on things for you but I've sold at 'new' venues in the past and at one I made the princely sum of £6 profit:eek:. I only made that much by selling to the adjacent seller. Your sale might be totally different though, with a mass of buyers all hungry for a local table top sale. I hope so:beer: