Best car boot sale and charity shop bargains.

JesaRose

MoaningMyrtle wrote: »

4 recent paperbacks for £1.00 to add to my collection for holiday. I leave them there when I come home, they have a small 'library' in the Office of the Hotel for guests to use.

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I've just come back from holiday and ours did too - I got Twilight, Artemis Fowl and the new James Bond book all for free. Twilight was about £8 at the airport on the way out

I left my books there too and noticed on the plane on the way home someone was reading one of mine - I knew it was mine as it still had the £1 Red Cross sticker on the back

I just love a freebie

notlongnow_2

I love it when one persons car-boot tat is another persons 'vintage' lol. Certainly goes to show that one mans rubish is another mans treasure.

I LOVE carboots and got a £30 aquadoodle for my girl for £3 on sunnday whereas in Argos they are £30.

Also got a bag full of virtually new looking Nike Air Max and Adidas clothes for my boy for £9. He was very pleased.

Kaz2904

I managed to pick up a good condition pair of Diesel cropped jeans for £3.50 from the charity shop the other day. I'm going car booting on Saturday as I've no kids for the day and there's a big one near me. I hope to be posting some lovely bargains!

JesaRose

You reminded me I missed something from Sundays bootsale haul - a pair of Diesel jeans for £2

goanmad

Hello gang! Just got back from the Thursday boot sale.

Bargains today included:

Old monogrammed leather vanity case in perfect condition complete with keys packed full of Silko cotton on wooden reels, vintage buttons, tape measures, belt buckles, sewing scissors and some pinking sheers plus a contract of employment (as Gown Department manageress in Beatties in Wolverhampton) and Xmas greetings cards and wedding invitations from 1945..... £4

Huge 3ft x 3ft 1960's white wood framed "Caroline" print £3
Set of 4 white enamel planters with rose pattern (very Cath Kidston)£2
Thermos Gas camping BBQ £4
1970's large mock-croc black handbag 50p
Vintage Brutus denim waistcoat £1
Tooled leather shoulderbag and wide black leather belt £1
Vintage men's brown leather sandals (fit BF perfectly) £1
Levi's jeans 50p
Purple mohair jumper 50p
5 x 1950's era silk Souvenier scarves (for making into cushion covers) £1
1980's gold foil evening jacket with massive shoulder pads 50p
1980's trashy emerald green skirt suit with black lace trim 50p
Vintage snakeskin purse on a long strap 50p

shelovestobuystuff

Wow,that vanity case sounds lovely,a little piece of history too.Fantastic find.
What do the 40,s wedding invitations look like?So difficult to find authentic vintage inspiration for things like that online.

goanmad

Hiya shelovestobuystuff:

The wedding invitation is beautiful ivory coloured textured paper with a horseshoe edged in silver at the top. Vintage stuff like that is so much more subtle than today's garish stuff, isn't it? Lovely copperplate handwriting, too.

I'm kicking myself actually as there was a family with a box of the most amazing photo albums, obviously some elderly relative who'd passed away. The albums were packed with black and white photographs and each contained a different subject matter: Paris, Barcelona, Ibiza and the front page of each album was hand-painted with the name of the place and a few small watercolour sketches. They must have been 1930's-50's era.
They wanted £5 an album but they were absolutely fascinating (maybe next week...)

JesaRose

goanmad - any chance you could post a picture of one of the invites? I am getting married next summer and want some authentic vintage inspiration for mine which I am going to make myself...please please please

goanmad

I'll do my very best to take a photo and upload on Monday, promise, JesaRose! I'm off for the weekend and disconnected the camera and put the batteries away.

Good luck to all of you with any booting, jumbling and chazzing. Looking forward to hearing about your bargains on Monday xx

lynzpower

Hope you have a fab rtime at Hop Farm Goan, will they have vintage stalls like they do at glastonbury though? Sometimes they have some brilliant stuff in pound piles there!!