Benbenandme's Coffee Shop ... All welcome!

benbenandme

Hi Duey and welcome Thats actually a really useful idea, I will have several plastic crates empty once I've unpacked the non-clothes stuff, so I could sort stuff into those. I am taking some of my clothes and some of ds clothes so I think I will do as you suggest, thankyou :T :T

ladypinkof66

benbenandme wrote: »

Hi Duey and welcome Thats actually a really useful idea, I will have several plastic crates empty once I've unpacked the non-clothes stuff, so I could sort stuff into those. I am taking some of my clothes and some of ds clothes so I think I will do as you suggest, thankyou :T :T

Let us know how you get on I will eagerly be waiting I am sure you will make quite a bit.

mollymunchkin

Good luck with the car boot BB. I like the idea of them but the early Sunday morning starts always put me off. I get up early enough during the week, lol.

benbenandme

Thank you all, I knoe what you mean about the early mornings Molly but I have no excuse really as I have 6 weeks off work so have plenty of opportunity for lie-ins
My ebay items have just finished and out of 6 items only 2 sold In around about way I'm not bothered, if they'd done well I'd be thinking that I should have stuck more on there whereas now I know I'm doing the right thing going to the car boot The two that sold went for £3.19 and £1.99, so not exactly going to clear the mortgage but it still helps

benbenandme

Just been looking at my £100 weekly challenge, today was the start of week 2, and today I have made £20 from matched betting stuff and I have several mystery shops lined up for this week which will bring in £42.00, so I need to find another £38 this week, so that will be my challenge for the car boot To be honest I don't expect to make even half of that, but thats what I will aim for

benbenandme

Afternoon everyone Car boot went fine, I made £23 after the entry fee, pleased with that, I managed to bring back a couple less boxes than I took so thats good £15 to go for this weeks money!

benbenandme

I've just put on a couple of matched bets on this afternoons footie, one should make me £10.01 and the other somewhere between £2 and £4 hopefully, so almost made this weeks money already, woohoo :j

EllieMarie

Hiya Benben,

well done on your car boot sale:beer:.

Can I ask what sorts of items you sold and did you price the items before you went or made it up as you went along? Its just I have quite a few of DD's outgrown clothes which are in good condition, (but not expensive makes) as well as various other items I was thinking of taking to a car boot, so I was just wondering the best way of going about things and if there was anything that didn't seem to sell that well.

You seem to being going great guns in paying off that mortgage, am sure you'll succeed:j.

benbenandme

Hi Elliemarie, today I mainly sold clothes and kids books. I had a box of kids books and a box of my books, I didn't sell one of mine but almost sold all of ds's :rolleyes: Clothes went well today, its one of those boot sales where they do go well but others I've done they've hardly gone at all. I don't tend to price anything up, the only thing that def doesn't sell is videos, so many people have boxes of them for 10p each and they still dont go. The girl next to me was offering 10 disney videos for £1 and still couldn't shift them, they were good ones like lion king and little mermaid but no-one wants them. The first things to go wre magazines, I dont but many but if I do buy them I chuck them in a box in the garage once I've read them and take them along with me, I charge 20p each for them, usually ones like Now, Closer, Ok etc ... and they always go first Most of the clothes I sold were 50p each, some were £1. I also have a 10p box which is full of McD's happy meal toys and all sorts of "bits" that ds accumalates like the packs of crayons you get in m&s kids lunch box meals etc , and that box is always really popular

benbenandme

woohoo, I gambled a little bit with the £2-£4 matched bet and it ended up making me £6.50 This means I am now on £101.50 for this weeks £100 challenge, with 5 days to go :j