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

JesaRose

Shoe & bag envy here too

I've found a jumblesale tomorrow :jand also a Bazaar but I'm not certain what that is! Isn't a bazaar usually like a craft fair rather than second hand stuff?

Mariel

I think a bazaar would be more a Christmas Fair sort of thing but maybe worth a look, you never know what you'll find!
I managed to track down a jumble sale here a couple of months ago, it was rubbish, a few tatty home things and a table with about 15 old ladies polyester jersey dresses on it.

JesaRose

Thats what I was thinking Mariel. We were planning on going shopping tomorrow. BUT I've found a christmas fair with "white elephant stalls" and second hand books too now so I think I might just have to try out all three

goanmad

Well we tried the furniture sale and a community fair today. Nothing much at either, but came away with:

9 vintage silk padded coat hangers - 20p each
1950's buttonhole making device, still boxed and quite useful - 30p
Hornsea Pottery owl patterned pot in brown and turquoise - 20p
Aromatherapy book (perfect accompaniment to the stash of oils I got last week) 10p

Hope everyone else did better!

JesaRose

I managed the first jumble sale and got:

Faux fur coat 50p
15x paperback books 10p each - some of which are still in the Top 10 current bestsellers
Cute tan mini leather satchel 20p
Large dark brown leather satchel 20p
Coral cropped cardigan from Next 20p

Then we went into another town to have a look round the charity shops so I missed the other sale but got some fancy dress items for my dressing up box

JesaRose

I forgot to add one of my jumble buys - an Apple Ipod power adapter. I have the same one already which I bought for £15 and the one I got today was just £1. Its always good to have a spare

Gaz70

went to a jumble sale today, really getting into them. theyre so cheap! i got a antique set of snap cards really nice, some old airfix models an old board game some 1940s pudding mould for less than a quid. even the cheap charity shops aint that cheap. also the good thing about jumble sales i rekon is that most of the people who go are hunting for clothes, whichi im not interested in and am happy to rummage through the brica brac for my kinda bargains. Long live jumbles sales. other plus is they never get rained off
here ends the pro jumble sale rant.
amen :j

sunshinedays

I got a good works true aromatherapy bag set for £3 and i've just seen it online for £30, brand new so i'm pleased. :]

goanmad

Gaz70 wrote: »

went to a jumble sale today, really getting into them. theyre so cheap! i got a antique set of snap cards really nice, some old airfix models an old board game some 1940s pudding mould for less than a quid. even the cheap charity shops aint that cheap. also the good thing about jumble sales i rekon is that most of the people who go are hunting for clothes, whichi im not interested in and am happy to rummage through the brica brac for my kinda bargains. Long live jumbles sales. other plus is they never get rained off
here ends the pro jumble sale rant.
amen :j

That's a first! Brac-a-Brac is what the majority of folk at every jumble sale I've been to in the last 30 years make a bee-line for. I call it the "Antiques Roadshow" effect. I rummage through the clothes until the madness subsides. Fortunately my taste's so off-the-wall there's usually loads left for me and I can pick up my beloved kitsch prints and vintage kitchenalia without being maimed by a psychotic granny!

GeorgeBee

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/threecounties/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8386000/8386685.stm

Can you imagine finding that in your local charity shop?!?!

Just imagine if they didn't realise the value and just popped it in the 50p bargin bin!!!