Trash To Cash Challenge

Mrsbojangles_2

jaffa30 wrote:

No Mrs B Thank You :T :T :T :T :T :T

Heres wishing your family memebers a speedy recovery.


Jaffa

Aww thank you very much xx

Itching to join in!!!

cazzie_4

Thanks for all the advice everyone

hornetgirl

My best to date (well DH's really) was a 1930s telephone table. Bought from a jumble sale for £8, sold for £80.

soolin

I have had a result this week, not huge amounts of money unfortunately but percentage wise a huge profit. Bought 20 items at 10p each, listed some in a Dutch BIN at £1.50 each and sold them immediately, listed the rest a little higher and sold out of them as well.

I wish I could get more as they were the perfect ebay item, easy to do as a dutch BIN, very cheap and easy to post and selling to a whole load of different people, not just a specialised market.

Soo

tylerdurden_167

My best item was a video of 90's TV drama GBH (4 VHS casettes) bought for £6 from 2nd hand Video Shop, sold on Ebay for £60.

Also bought a 1983 hand held computer game for £1 and sold it for £18.

Went to a carboot this morning but nothing worth getting :mad:

Contains_Mild_Peril

Mrsbojangles wrote:

I'm a bit of a fan of the car booty programmes etc.

Though I generally like bargain-hunting programmes on telly, I stopped watching Car Booty because it made me too angry. I can deal with the presenter with the really condescending attitude (Lorne Spicer I think?) but I was moved to write a pissy letter to the BBC when some unsold antique mahogany chairs were burned at the end of the programme, with apparent encouragement from the presenter. The chairs needed re-upholstered but the frames were actually in very good condition for their age, really nice quality, and there are plenty of charities which would have taken them. If I'd been given the chance I'd have paid whatever it cost to have them delivered to my home for restoration. I consider the wanton destruction of recyclable furniture made from tropical hardwoods whose harvest harms the environment to be unacceptable, and not something TV programmes should condone.
The last straw was the episode in which a little girl was bullied into trying to sell her treasured possessions in order to pay for a treat for her disabled brother. The pressure put on her was sickening. Luckily, it ended well- nobody bought her precious astronaut pictures, but the family still reached their target. Nonetheless, it put me off watching again.

Anyway, back to the topic of our own bargains... I'm feeling quite pleased with myself ater winning a bottle of wine and coffees made for me on request for a day, in a little wager with my husband and son. I bought an old gent's suit for £1 in a charity shop sale, and an old tie or 25p from another charity shop, and listed them as one lot on eBay. My hubby and son thought I was mad, and bet me it wouldn't sell. It did, for £6.99. :cool:

Wings_of_Ambition

I grabbed some airline meal trays that were going to be thrown out of the airline I worked for. One set went for 99p, the next for £20.50, another for £5.50, and the most recent for £16!

I think I'm gonna set myself a challenge of turning £10 into £50 for this challenge )

Mrsbojangles_2

Contains_Mild_Peril wrote:

Though I generally like bargain-hunting programmes on telly, I stopped watching Car Booty because it made me too angry. I can deal with the presenter with the really condescending attitude (Lorne Spicer I think?) but I was moved to write a pissy letter to the BBC when some unsold antique mahogany chairs were burned at the end of the programme, with apparent encouragement from the presenter. The chairs needed re-upholstered but the frames were actually in very good condition for their age, really nice quality, and there are plenty of charities which would have taken them. If I'd been given the chance I'd have paid whatever it cost to have them delivered to my home for restoration. I consider the wanton destruction of recyclable furniture made from tropical hardwoods whose harvest harms the environment to be unacceptable, and not something TV programmes should condone.
The last straw was the episode in which a little girl was bullied into trying to sell her treasured possessions in order to pay for a treat for her disabled brother. The pressure put on her was sickening. Luckily, it ended well- nobody bought her precious astronaut pictures, but the family still reached their target. Nonetheless, it put me off watching again.

Ohh I agree with you, when I put Car booty type programmes I meant the whole bunch of antique, bargain hunt, cash in the attic, flog it types, not specifically *Car booty" I'm not a fan of LS either.

I've still not done anything yet, one of DS's is still poorly, will probably just mooch around the car boot sales and jumble sales for my goodies, although would love to go to an auction! (too nervous, incase I get an itchy nose at a crucial moment (lol)

Contains_Mild_Peril

I love auctions, but we don't get them too often round here any more. There was a saleroom with regular auctions, but it closed down ages ago, so now the nearest one is in a town about 16 miles away, and I don't really want to go because I don't have a car so one of 2 things would happen:
1. I wouldn't find anything I wanted at a price I wanted to pay so I'd be annoyed at myself for wating the bus fare, or
2. I'd see loads of bargains and be really frustrated because there's a limit to the amount of stuff I can carry onto a bus, and getting it home by other means, e.g. taxi or even a delivery van would be uneconomical.
I did get some good bargains at a charity auction a while ago, though. They were doing an auction and indoor car boot sale, and when they'd finished the labelled auction lots the car booters were packing up, so they were invited to donate any additional items to auction, so there were a few lots of assorted car boot sale leftovers. I bought about 3 lots for £1-2 each, and sold a lot of the items individually on eBay (unfortunately I didn't keep count of the total).

Murtle

Where do people find out about house clearance auctions? I can never find anything in our local paper??!

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