Best Car Boot, Charity Shop and Jumble Sale Bargains - New Thread 4/10/09

lulu650

From a carboot today, Orla Keily wallet, brand new with price ticket inside for £67.
Bought after much haggling for......£3.50

jessapip

I went to another local carboot yesterday, didn't find as much there but did pick up:
A cute little teapot to put on an empty shelf in my kitchen-50p
A book-50p
A solid wood table, quite small, I would say it was the small one from a nest of tables - £1. It needs a bit of TLC on the top but when I go back to the good cb I went to, I'm going to try and find a bit of material to cover it like a table cloth.

There is a charity shop about 5 minutes walk from my house, I'm on holiday from work atm and have nothing planned tomorrow so I am very tempted to walk down there to see if I can find anything! Bit low on funds but luckily DH is paid before the next cb:T

jessapip

Went to a carboot today, only half the amount of people this time, think it's because rain was forecast. It was a bit dull this time but managed to get:
Two lovely scarves 50p each
3 books from a series I have been reading 50p each :j
A small glass candle holder with cats hand painted on 10p
A dark blue ceramic cat with a gold collar 10p
That was it this week...I suppose they are likely to be a bit hit and miss.

I did get, from a charity shop a really lovely floral dress from New Look for £4.95 really chuffed with it. :T

I am debating going to my local one again tomorrow to have a mooch around.

bj1

Because of my disability I found it hard to visit many of the charity shops around London so trying to find that something special was difficult. Then I found curbfind on facebook listing designer labels for sale in the London charity shops. So a big thank you to curbfind keep up the good work.

WLM21

The best charity shop I know is full of absolute bargains, even designer shoes.

I've got items there for less than a quid and sold them for over £100 on quite a few occasions.

The charity shop is on ....

amjustagirl

I love car boot's and go most Sunday's.

Recent find's-

Ralph Lauren shirt new and genuine £1-for hubby
Next thick jumper £1-for hubby
1 x Mamas and Papas and Next sleeping bag's for my baby £1 each look like new
Bike child carrier retail at around £45 in great used condition £6
Little Tikes toddler slide in good condition £1 (that was from a scout jumble sale)
Accessorize sequin handbag £1.50 new with tag's
Next grey women's cardigan with tag's £1 (sold on ebay for £10)
Regatta aqua girl fleece look's like new 50p
Silver Clinique make up bag new 50p
Asda George thick gorgeous cardigan for my toddler, barely worn 25p
3 set of Dunelm home canvas pictures for our hall £1.50
Hello kitty bike helmet, look's unused 50p
Various occasion card's 20p each
Brand new f&f baby cardigan with tag's 50p
Dunelm gorgeous red and gold curtains new £5 (put them on the landing upstair's)
New look Kelly Brook embroidered fluffy black cardigan new with tag's £1 (sold on ebay for £10)
John Lewis new print dress with tag's £1
Denim white spotty M&Co jacket for dd new with tag's £1.50
Ty cow teddy, good condition. My daughter is in love with this and forever kissing and hugging it 20p
Golddigga fluffy winter hat in great condition 50p
Thomas tank engine 3 set of jiqsaw's in great condition 50p, will be giving this to my friend's young son when I see her next, he loves jigsaw's at the mo.

I could go on but I will leave it there, as you can tell I loves my bargain's :j

amjustagirl

WLM21 wrote: »

The best charity shop I know is full of absolute bargains, even designer shoes.

I've got items there for less than a quid and sold them for over £100 on quite a few occasions.

The charity shop is on ....

Lucky you as most of the charity shop's round here are full of overpriced tat!

achrnysh

Recently discovered the wonders of carboot sales
have been to the local 'big one' which was quite disappointing. just lots of junk, baby stuff.. nothing exciting apart from a lovely butchers stall - selling amazing bacon packs for £10! and this lasted us two weeks, when we consume bacon on the daily basis pretty much.
but then stumbled upon accidentally onto the less bigger one aparently - and it was brilliant! got a lovely leather jacket (size 6, which I thought was rare to find) for a £1. Brand new spot lights for living room, also £1. one of those lovely mannequin jewellery holders for 50p (bargain) as well as an african mask framed from the same vendour for again 50p. paper shredder brand new in box untouched £1 (really needed one, and was unwilling to for out aprox £20 for one); some cheap but pretty new look jumpers and the best thing yet some modern new bathroom sink taps for £5 - installed them myself and they work so well! extremely happy. Going back this week to the same carboot, fingers crossed it will be up and running as well as good - no apparent junk last time for those that do not have kids. (oh there was a really gorgeous wine rack as well last time! but the seller wanted a fiver for it, but I felt really bad to haggle with them and do not drink anywhere near enough wine to justify buying a small wine rack). :rotfl:

somnophore

Sorry to show off. I've had quite a few smaller bargains but this is by far

Rare Carl zeiss jena ww2 u boat binoculars £200 paid

Bit if research done, whacked them on ebay £3900!

Can't post photo as I'm a new user apparently

imho

From my local jumble sale JML Magic Bullet £130/£149 new bought for £8 in the box .Missing lids but thats all.No way is it worth £130.I think £40 should be the retail price.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jml-JML-Magic-Bullet/dp/B007RD94D2

.I just missed a upright Miele cleaner looked brand new £50 retail for near on £300.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Miele-Bagged-Upright-Vacuum-Cleaner/dp/B002GP7YHY