Best car boot sale and charity shop bargains.

GrammarGirl

shelovestobuystuff wrote: »

Yipee!
Bought a gorgeous colclough harlequin tea set(4 x trios).Bought it for pocket money basically,putting it on ebay right now for £40.
Does anyone here sell on etsy?I fancy giving it a go rather than ebay but the idea of doing my pricing in $ is putting me off,with the exchange rate fluctauting constantly I may have to keep editing my prices.
Also got a cute vintage english china brooch,a little yellow pansy,by Hadleigh in its original box.

I used to make my own jewellery and have sold on Etsy, as well as Big Cartel. I found Etsy good - easy to use, great to drum up business. The currency thing is off-putting at first but you get used to it. I'm not sure how big the pottery/crockery market is on there though? Presuming that's what you'll be selling.

Big Cartel is fab as an e-commerce add on to your own website. Really easy to manage, but ideally you'd want to have a good customer base first, or the ability to advertise your site as Big Cartel is a bit hidden away, it's not like the Etsy community.

Miss_Laid

Went to one this morning, won a 3 day Butlins holiday going next weekend so needed a suitcase, found a perfect one £1
2 x Gilchrist & soames travel sets shampoo, shower gel, soap body lotion 20p each
1 hot head heat protection spray 50p
3 ps 1 games 50p each
wallis top 50p
Blue Willi pure cotton jumper 50p

Going to a table top sale soon hopefully pick up a few more bits

Sootzer

This morning...

Pair M&S new leather shoes £2
Some console games £1 each
New and sealed in wooden box Cluedo £2

goanmad

Afternoon gang! What a gorgeous morning for a boot sale.

This morning's haul was:

2 vintage floral frocks (Laura Ashey label in one) plus 4 1950's etched and coloured shot glasses - 50p the lot
French Connection brown leather lace-up ankle boots £2
Crocheted granny blanket £1
Vintage mock-croc court shoes 50p
Unopened Avon Pedi-Pads (second pot in 3 days) 20p - an essential for my trotters!
Accessorize wooden ring 20p
Benefit's Bene-Tint, lip gloss and Dr Feelgood plus a Chanel "Base Lumere" 50p
Morgan leather BoHo belt with brass rivets 50p
1950's "Virginian" jeans in mint condition 25p
1970's high waisted flares (also mint with tags attached) 25p
Quilted hippy-style jacket in ethnic printed cotton with ornate buttons 30p
"Agatha, Paris" 1980's white blazer 20p
Three quilted faux leather bags with chain straps £1
Huge oversized 1970's sunglasses 50p
Duffer St George denim jacket 50p
1960's era RAC boxed set of 17 Route Maps 50p
British Airways flight bag 50p
1970's back lace bolero jacket with big floaty sleeves £1
Plus 1lb button mushrooms 60p :j

Looking forward to hearing about everyone else's finds.
XXX

princessmoneysaver

Got a few bargains today, a BNWT Slouch style Disney Store Tinkerbell bag £4.99 (RRP £35!) & a BNWT Antler case £4.99 (RRP £45!) & a BNWT M&S gorgeous lilac winter jumper (RRP £29.99) £3.30. That was all from the only charity shop I managed to get into today so very pleased especially the Tinkerbell bag which will be perfect for my MIL's birthday next month xx

lightisfading

A couple of charity shop bargains:

A gorgeous vintage tooled leather bag / large pouch, £1.99. Hoping to get about £15 ish on ebay for this, either for 'vintage' fans or for a historical roleplay prop.

2x horns for 50p ... resold as 'drinking horns' at historical roleplay festival recently for a tenner each.

Oh and a lovely rose patterned 'tea for one' set for £1, BNIP, which will be a christmas pressie

JesaRose

Charity shop bargains today:

£1 current Topshop ruffle mini skirt
£3.45 current NWT River Island purple evening top and black slouchy Miss Selfridge top (buy one get one free)

Jorsha

Today at car boot I got:
Nintendogs Dalmatian DS game: £4
7 Ethnic carvings for a total of £9
A nice set of weighing scales to use for eBay. £2
2Kg aquarium gravel: 50p.
2 fish tank heaters and an air pump: £2

Saffronsmum

Today at the boot sale i got:

Huge amount of lego (around 6kg) for 20.00
Fisher price house 2.50 (worth up to 17.00 on e-bay)
A manual for our car 3.00
A collection of mini bogglins (to go on e-bay)
A old pelham puppet 10.00
Some Next children's clothes 50p each
A Mr frosty 2.00
Some in the night garden (tombeeboos) 1.00 each.

So not a bad day, the girls are pleased with the lego.

Jorsha

Wow, well done on the Lego Saffronsmum!
Just out of interest, did the mr frosty come in a box and if so was the box blue and white, or red and white?