Best car boot sale and charity shop bargains.

JesaRose

You might be in luck, the weather is set to turn on Friday and Saturday.
Although if it rains Saturday my monthly Sunday best bootsale will be off

sir_2

sir wrote: »

On friday I called into a charity shop and picked up 35 very old looking thimbles for £2.50 the lot. on closer inspection when i got home they are all marked 925 with a star no idea what this means but they have to be worth more then 7.5p each!

Just an update and a thanks for all the inspiration.

These just sold for £160!!!:beer::beer::beer::beer::T:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

So I am a happy person!

tiff

Thats fantastic, I just had a quick look and you did really well with the pics.

vickyd4v3

got some bargins this week at car boot
miss sixty top 10p
Ted Baker top 10p
playboy top 10p
next jeans 75p
next Jeans 75p
baby floaty 50p
new breast pump £2

Maysie

anyone going to watch bbc2 at 9pm tonight ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l1tft

Mary Portas is a woman on a mission to transform the humble charity shop from the poor relation on the high street into a real contender. In the first month of her five-month mission, she takes on her own charity shop. What better way to understand the nitty-gritty of the charity shop sector than to roll up her sleeves, put on a pinny and get stuck in?
Her shop is one of Save the Children's worst performing shops, in Orpington, Kent. After introducing herself to the volunteer workforce - many of whom are pensioners with up to thirty years' service - Mary tries to teach them how to overhaul the sad and tired clothes and bric-a-brac dumped at the shop door.
Gobsmacked by the appalling quality of the donations, Mary and her army of volunteers descend on London's glossiest shopping centre armed with sacks of dirty knickers and moth-eaten jumpers to see what the great British public think.
With the help of her volunteers, Mary launches a local campaign to attempt to improve the quality of her dire donations, but her first attempt to appeal to the people of Orpington's charitable side fails, and Mary is left wondering if she has bitten off more than she can chew.


i enjoyed the shops series so should be interesting.

JesaRose

I'm watching it

luvbargains

I'm just watching it too!

Sweetpeanut

Will it be repeated? on any other BBC channels? thanks in advance x

Maysie

this is funny

JesaRose

God its so true of some volunteers though - ask them to do something and they just do what they want. And some paid staff!

Not all charity shops look like that though - just some/most