whats your best car boot buys

fsdss

just delighted and feel that i ought to share this with u all, been to a local car boot today and picked up some mega bargains out of £10 i spent got the following

50p - childs Audi ride on car (which cleaned up without fault)
50p- little tikes transporter and 2 cars (new £30+)
£1 - childs push along pram
£2.50 - buggy board
£1.05 - selection of cakes
£2.30 - 2 bacon rolls and cup of tea

and home with change in my pocket................when kids finish playing with them i'll whack em on ebay.

what bargains have you had?

HugoSP

One I've done was £5 for a printer that I bought a ribbon for for £8 then sold it working for £35.

Another, 7 tonne trolley jack £14. The best jack I've ever had by far!

A box of toy cars for £2 which I sorted out and sold individually at another car boot for stacks. There were some newer Corgi collectable trucks in there which sold for £4 plus each.

3 piece casserole set £1

H

Gem+Dave+Kaci

fsdss wrote:

£1.05 - selection of cakes
£2.30 - 2 bacon rolls and cup of tea <snip> when kids finish playing with them i'll whack em on ebay.

Hope you get loads for them!!


My best buy was a bowling ball + bowling ball bag that I bought a few weeks ago for £5!!

The ball honestly looks brand new (there's not a single scratch or mark on it) and the strange thing was, we were going bowling that day anyway, and the ball was exactlly the weight I use, with the holes drilled exactlly the right size for my fingers!!! (And it's obviously lucky as I managed to get 2 strikes and a spare with it, and I'm not even that great at bowling! )

Also went to a boot sale just as it was closing last week, started browsing some baby clothes on a stall, and the guy said 'I'm just about to leave and I can't be bothered to take these back home with me - help yourself to whatever you want!' We ended up getting 2 bin liners full of baby clothes, all the right size for our daughter, for free!!!

I love boot sales...

Contains_Mild_Peril

I got enough good-sized carpet offcuts to carpet a whole room for free recently! Another time, I got a deep fat fryer for free at packing-up time. Years ago, I got a Wade dalmatian (from Disney's 101 dalmatians) for 50p, and later had it valued by BBC Antiques Roadshow at £30. At the last car boot sale I went to, I got a Louis Vuitton handbag for 50p. No guarantee it's genuine of course (though the seller said she was fairly sure it was), but if it's a fake, it's a very good one.