Best car boot sale and charity shop bargains.

JesaRose

Cracking haul goanmad - I haven't been to a jumble sale in ages. I'm very envious you lucky lady

goanmad

Hi JesaRose.
September is officially the start of the jumble sale season around here. They can be very scary as you're competing against some really tough old ladies so it's every woman for themselves! I'll post anything interesting I find later.

xx

Saffronsmum

Looked around the charity shops yesterday and didn't find a thing :mad: but today i went to the tip (to dump some rubbish) and came back with a large little tikes trike and climbing frame for 3.00 :j, the girls are pleased with it and when they have finished with it i will e-bay it or freecycle. You can't go wrong for 3.00.

Sootzer

Hi Boot this morning...
Double duvet set new in packaging £2.50
Me2you photo album 50p
Good quality long arm paint roller with spare sleeves 50p
Pair Pavers Winter fleece lined boots. Brand New £2.50
5 pairs of new mens boxers 20p each.
Baby ski hat and mits Brand new £1

roll on the weekend!

goanmad

Well the jumble sale was amazing!!! No more than 25 people there so no pushing and shoving and the clothes....OMG! It was like the jumble sales I used to love as a child where everything you picked up was vintage!

:jI was in heaven.

Tonight's finds included:

2 x 1940's floral tea dresses
1940's pink boiled-wool day dress
2 x chiffon "Jean Varon" cocktail dresses, one in red and one in teal (1970's era)
Psychedellic print green maxi dress (early 1970's)
1960's Finland-made wool maxi skirt with zip down the front and matching scarf
Elbow length cream kid leather gloves
Reversable cherry red velvet/silver lurex evening wrap
1950's Persian lamb coat with shawl collar and huge single button
1950's blue wool swing coat with bugle bead design on the shoulders
1960's navy crimplene coat with maple leaf diamonte brooch pinned to collar
Gent's 1950's camel full length military coat
Gent's faux fur car coat
Gent's sheepskin coat (modern)
Gent's tweed car coat with leather trim and fake fur collar
1960's emerald green jacket with a kitsch label showing the Eiffel Towel
10 x mod Bri Nylon polo shirts (1960's)
Vintage St Michael ruffled Psychedllic evening blouse
1970's kaftan with Hungarian embroidery
2 pairs Doc Marten shoes (unworn!)
Jaeger man's velvet jacket
2 Jarvis cocker-style tweed jackets
2 x St Michael 1960's era safari jackets
1960's tartan swimming trunks with snake belt
2 x vintage ski sweaters

I can't get over it. The ladies clothing was 20p each, the coats 50p and the men's clothes were 40p.

notlongnow_2

goanmad wrote: »

Well the jumble sale was amazing!!! No more than 25 people there so no pushing and shoving and the clothes....OMG! It was like the jumble sales I used to love as a child where everything you picked up was vintage!

:jI was in heaven.

Tonight's finds included:

2 x 1940's floral tea dresses
1940's pink boiled-wool day dress
2 x chiffon "Jean Varon" cocktail dresses, one in red and one in teal (1970's era)
Psychedellic print green maxi dress (early 1970's)
1960's Finland-made wool maxi skirt with zip down the front and matching scarf
Elbow length cream kid leather gloves
Reversable cherry red velvet/silver lurex evening wrap
1950's Persian lamb coat with shawl collar and huge single button
1950's blue wool swing coat with bugle bead design on the shoulders
1960's navy crimplene coat with maple leaf diamonte brooch pinned to collar
Gent's 1950's camel full length military coat
Gent's faux fur car coat
Gent's sheepskin coat (modern)
Gent's tweed car coat with leather trim and fake fur collar
1960's emerald green jacket with a kitsch label showing the Eiffel Towel
10 x mod Bri Nylon polo shirts (1960's)
Vintage St Michael ruffled Psychedllic evening blouse
1970's kaftan with Hungarian embroidery
2 pairs Doc Marten shoes (unworn!)
Jaeger man's velvet jacket
2 Jarvis cocker-style tweed jackets
2 x St Michael 1960's era safari jackets
1960's tartan swimming trunks with snake belt
2 x vintage ski sweaters

I can't get over it. The ladies clothing was 20p each, the coats 50p and the men's clothes were 40p.

Hi, how on earth did you carry that lot!!LOL. Could I ask you what you do with all this 'vintage'? As to me, most of it looks like a pile of tat id be embarrassed to give to charity(bri nylon shirts?? Psychadelic st michael blouse?).(Absolutely no offence intended) Do you wear it? Do you sell it?I love that we all like different things and are experts in our own field and that there is always someone out there to carry on recycling most items, I really do think its fantastic.Personally, I like chintzy pottery and kitchen items etc and do fairly well with selling it on so someone else must have the same tastes as myself.you should visit my mums wardrobe...sounds like you would love the things in there.lol.

GrammarGirl

Just went for a root around in our local St Gemma's Hospice. Didn't find anything but saw a really hideous, battered old fold out desk for £49.99!!! I was so shocked. I cannot believe it was so much.

goanmad

notlongnow wrote: »

Hi, how on earth did you carry that lot!!LOL. Could I ask you what you do with all this 'vintage'? As to me, most of it looks like a pile of tat id be embarrassed to give to charity(bri nylon shirts?? Psychadelic st michael blouse?).(Absolutely no offence intended) Do you wear it? Do you sell it?I love that we all like different things and are experts in our own field and that there is always someone out there to carry on recycling most items, I really do think its fantastic.Personally, I like chintzy pottery and kitchen items etc and do fairly well with selling it on so someone else must have the same tastes as myself.you should visit my mums wardrobe...sounds like you would love the things in there.lol.

Hello! In response to the first question, no I don't have to carry it, the nice lady behind the counter bagged it all up and we collected it at the end. It all fitted nicely into the VW campervan.

I'm not offended at all by your comments, most people around here think like you and I'm glad they do, that's how I've made a succesful business from selling vintage clothing - no competition from anyone else!

I'm an "alternative type" and lead an different lifestyle. Most of the places I go and people I mix with aren't conventional, mainstream types so psychedellic blouses and maxi dresses are perfectly acceptable clothing in my crowd (sadly smaller sizes are hard to come across so most of my finds get sold on as they hang off me). I can't imagine anything as depressing as shopping from clothing store with racks and racks of the same item.

I've styled several bands and most Indie guys kill for bri-nylon shirts and velvet jackets, they are so hard to come across these days probably because volunteers in charity shops think they're "tat" the same way as yourself and chuck 'em in the rag bag.

I adore picking up vintage kitchen items on my charity shop, car boot and jumble sale visits - linen tea towels, earthenware mixing bowls, vintage enamel pots and cake tins, glass and china cake stands and cast iron saucepans in jewel colours. I even picked up three hand-made oak kitchen cupboards from a car boot sale for £30 and after waxing and painting them they look like something from the Fired Earth "Bastide" range.

notlongnow_2

goanmad wrote: »

Hello! In response to the first question, no I don't have to carry it, the nice lady behind the counter bagged it all up and we collected it at the end. It all fitted nicely into the VW campervan.

I'm not offended at all by your comments, most people around here think like you and I'm glad they do, that's how I've made a succesful business from selling vintage clothing - no competition from anyone else!

I'm an "alternative type" and lead an different lifestyle. Most of the places I go and people I mix with aren't conventional, mainstream types so psychedellic blouses and maxi dresses are perfectly acceptable clothing in my crowd (sadly smaller sizes are hard to come across so most of my finds get sold on as they hang off me). I can't imagine anything as depressing as shopping from clothing store with racks and racks of the same item.

I've styled several bands and most Indie guys kill for bri-nylon shirts and velvet jackets, they are so hard to come across these days probably because volunteers in charity shops think they're "tat" the same way as yourself and chuck 'em in the rag bag.

I adore picking up vintage kitchen items on my charity shop, car boot and jumble sale visits - linen tea towels, earthenware mixing bowls, vintage enamel pots and cake tins, glass and china cake stands and cast iron saucepans in jewel colours. I even picked up three hand-made oak kitchen cupboards from a car boot sale for £30 and after waxing and painting them they look like something from the Fired Earth "Bastide" range.

Wow...apart from the clothes we like the same things. I too cannot bear to buy from clothes shops and have no qualms with second hand.

How fantastic that you made a business out of this clothing. Bet the people who sell it dead cheap would kick themselves if they knew.
I love cakestands and very rarely would find them and if I did they were expensive. Well ive just discovered a house clearance shop that lets me have the 2 or 3 teir porcelein ones for 3 for a tenner...result!! I have too many for my house now so have to pass them on.

Ones mans junk if definately someone elses treasure. I think we should all keep up the good work.

Long live the second handers.

ladypinkof66

Today in charity shop i bought a lovely orange dress from M & S like new 0.99p
and another Marks and Spencer dress 60's abstract style brand new with tags 0.99p

i also bought a lovely pair of red glittery pumps nearly near from barratts for £3.75