Christmas Fairs/Bootsales

caroline78

Hiya Everyone,

Hope this is the right place to post this.

I am struggling with money, as is everyone else, and have decided to have a stall at our local boot sale each week in December.

I don't want to sell our old stuff as we do that about once a month anyway so have decided to sell Christmassy items.

I have looked through some of the posts, but there are thousands...lol, and am going to make snowman soup, reindeer food, and jars of nothing.

Can anyone please help me with some other ideas that I could make and sell on.

Thanks in advance....

yippee_kye_yay

lump of coal
no sew blankets
reindeer flannels
sock cupcakes/glasses
cookie/muffin mix in a jar

not sure on the rules and regs on selling food,, but if no rescictions homemade jams/chutneys or xmas puds (would need to start these now)

hope this gives you a few ideas

caroline78

The lump of coal sounds good....must have a nosy for a link...

Would also love someone to help me locate the cone bags for the snowman soup...had a look on ebay but they seem quite dear...

CandyB101_2

Lakeland sell a pack of 50 for £5.99, buy in store or online
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/disposable-icing-bags/F/C/baking-piping-bags/product/2664

pretzelnut

Just be careful that you dont end up losing out financially.

Its easy to get carried away buying and making stuff but you then have to sell it.

Ive seen so many people not even break even and being left with loads of stuff.

I dont want to put you off but i dont want to see you end up poorer for trying to help raise some extra funds.

Anoter idea is the novelty loo roll.

caroline78

Thanks for the ideas...

I figured with the snowman soup and the various poops that even if they don't sell I can use the stuff anyway....Same with the funny toilet rolls, and he jars of nothing cost well....nothing..lol

pretzelnut

I didnt mean to sound like a spoil sport, i'd love to have the time to give it a go myself.

Have you thought about asking your local school if you can have a stall at their xmas fayre, my DS's school are that desperate for funds and donations at the minute that they are thinking about doing this and charging £10 per table.

Many of the parents do all sorts of different things so it will be a bit of a showcase for the parents as well as raising money for the school. Which is good as the last fayre the school did was pants and consisted of a poor cake stall, bric a brac stall and saok the teacher stand. They didnt raise much money at all.

cyclingyorkie

our school does this too - we get some lovely outside stalls.

rainmac

I had a stall at a craft fair at the weekend with lots of different items that I'd made and my best sellers by a mile were the teabag card, post-it note holder and box of hugs. I did a stall now to get an idea of what people like so I can do a few more at Xmas and make some more money. I took about £60 on the day and reckon I made about £30, lots of work for £30 but I did enjoy it and reckon these sort of gift items would sell even better at Xmas time.

Here are some links to the things that sold well...
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=392832 and you could add this little poem to the inside of the card...
http://www.craftbits.com/project/christmas-tea-poem
http://ladynthestamp.blogspot.com/2008/05/post-it-note-wallet-tutorial.html
http://www.craftbits.com/project/very-special-box

I too an going to do reindeer food, snowman soup and reindeer flannels.

Good luck!!!

greenpixey

Rainmac did you buy the white boxes for the "special box" or did you fold and make them yourself? If bought where did you get them please ?

rainmac

greenpixey wrote: »

Rainmac did you buy the white boxes for the "special box" or did you fold and make them yourself? If bought where did you get them please ?

I bought them from ebay. They are a cream embossed card and are little favour boxes (they came flat packed and I just had to make them into boxes and lids). They were incredibly cheap and I think I was just in the right place at the right time, will let you know the seller if I can find it again...