Best car boot sale and charity shop bargains.

lucy*locket

pnq06 wrote: »

OMG what a fantastic thread :j

Well I'm known as Queen of Bargains to family and friends
I very rarely by anything from "normal" shops anymore as I just LOVE charity shops... My budget stretches so much further and I can buy stuff that I wouldn't normally be able too.

Today for instance, I managed to get my daughter a practically brand new play kitchen for £5 which included loads of extras that wouldn't of originally come with it :j
As well as a Karen Millan dress, Topshop cardigan and River Island bag all for 50p each :j Fortunately I am in my mid 20's and live in an area with the population being mostly older folk so the kind of stuff I tend to buy is usually the stuff left on the sale rail :rotfl:

If I add up a typical days outfit then its usually cost less than £5 :T

OMG I am in love with this thread!!! How sad

Me too, it's so much more fun finding things you want without spending a fortune:j. Even better when people tell you they like something you're wearing and you thank them with a secret smile on your face;).
If only they knew...sometimes I tell them where I bought it, depends who it is. My house is full of stuff I bought at boot sales too, isn't it great?!

Princess_Fiona_2

I just love it. Ive just started a new hobby. Cross Stitching and so far have bought loads off the car boots for a fraction of the costs in the shops. Ive had loads of mags, Got 8 books only this weekend and was charged 25p each. Also snapped up a cross stitchers Bible, priced it up in Hobbycraft and they were charging £15.99 I paid 20p and it was in really good nick. The best car booters I find are the ones that have taken time out to price things up. You can tell they are first timers and you know you are gonna bag a bargain. The ones that I really dont bother looking at the are the ones who think they are antique dealers. To me thats not true car booting and I find boring.

Give me a 10p - £1 stall any day and I will have a good rummage.

There's one over at Cockshutt Lane just outside Cannock on a sunday morning. I get there about 8.30am and gotta say the earlier you are the more bargains there are.

Im not happy as the weather forecast for this weekend is rain!!! Boo hoo!!

shelovestobuystuff

I bought a Beswick bull in a charity shop for 25p,sold it for £200.

tiff

Wow, did you know it was worth that when you bought it?

JesaRose

I finally found a jumble sale near me

Ralph Lauren mens polo shirt 20p
Vintage 50s dress 30p
Huge 70s sunglasses 10p
Tan leather belt 10p
60s pencil skirt 20p
African picnic blanket 20p
Vintage gingham hotpants 20p
Van Heusen mens shirt 20p
A huge box full of vintage sewing patterns FREE

and lots of other bits

£2.20 spent in total

My lovely mother in law bought me a pair of Carvela shoe boots at the same jumble for 50p - they barely look worn at all

shelovestobuystuff

tiff wrote: »

Wow, did you know it was worth that when you bought it?

No,I didnt have a clue.I just liked it and I thought I had heard the name beswick before so I kinda hoped.If only I could do that sort of thing on a weekly basis I could make an enjoyable career out of shopping.
I looked it up on the internet when I got home with it and was jumping for joy when I saw auction house estimates of £50-100 and £100-200 in various places.
I am online tonight searching for info on backstamps from an english dresden crockery set I bought today.Hopefully it will be worth something decent and help with my wedding fund.

Jorsha

Congratulations on the Beswick bull!
I would never find something like that as I always walk right past the china at the car boots. Maybe I should look a bit harder today.

I'll post what I get when I get back in a few hours.

shelovestobuystuff

I am just a bit annoyed with myself in hindsight for not buying the broken beswick animals which were sitting alongside too,having looked them up online they would have fetched about £30 each even with broken horns etc.I just didnt give them a second look because of the damage.At 25p it would have been well worth the gamble.If my chance comes again I will grab it.
On the lookout now for an original Da Vinci line drawing to pay off the mortgage;).Fat chance:rolleyes:.

Jorsha

:O Even the broken ones sell for £30?
Wow.

I got a pretty bad haul today, a few things worth less than I paid for them. I'll just have to take them to the car boot when I sell at one, soon.
Folder full of Pokemon cards: £1 (Even the folders are worth a fiver)
4kg of Lego: £15 (I went a bit crazy on this because I always miss lego at car boots so I went in at quite a high price. Worth about £30 though, so I'm still happy)

Now for the bad bits:
Nintendo Game Boy: £1.50 (There's 1 pin in the cartridge holder bit that's bent back so unfortunately it won't play games)
8 Sega games for various old consoles: £3 (I decided to take a gamble on these, because I've sold Sega games before and they were worth quite a bit, but these aren't)
France 98 Monopoly: £1 (Complete, but not worth on eBay what I paid.)

I hope other car booters did better than me.

Sootzer

Slow day today....
15 new packs of HSM and Camp Rock trading cards and stickers £1
Cute little GAP baby hoodie new with tags £1
Some CDs new .40p each.