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

goanmad

Visited the scout jumble sale this morning and managed to snaffle:

1940's tea dress
Circular vanity case
3 x psychedelic fringed bed covers
1960's kitsch Danish viking figure
3 x 1950's rose print coasters
Embroidered linen tablecloth with a crinoline lady and some hollyhocks
Vintage metal trunk
Canvas two-man tent
1980's Moscow Olympics holdall
Van-Dal courts
1960's black leather knee-high boots by K's
3 vintage handbags
Heeled ladies loafers
Tooled leather magazine cover
Boden blazer
Boden skirt
Hand crochet buttercup yellow jumper
Faux fur collar
Bundle of wood and padded fabric coat hangers
Vintage Pronuptia full length stiffened slip

That should keep me happy until this Thursday's monthly church jumble fix!

goanmad

lulu650 wrote: »

Goanmad your blog gets better and better. Not just for the clothes you pick up for a pittance and wear with such an individual style, but your home. It's just how I'd like my home to be, filled with interesting and quirky objects but not to the point of saturation.

But please tell me you have a glory hole somewhere for all the stuff that needs restoration, ebaying, throwing out or haven't a clue what do with. The combination of this thread and your blog is threatening my entire declutter operation at chez lulu!!

Lulu - thanks for the lovely words!
I'm in the middle of a spring declutter. (She says after just listing another pile of stuff brought back this morning). Until last week my spare room was full of eBay boxes, vinyl, books and general tat picked up on our travels. Jon managed three trips to the tip and the BHA had a donation of three bin bags. Every photo on my blog usually involves a mad scuffle to shift the piles of books and kick aside the general clutter.

medsdemon

Hi. Just a quick post of my bits |I managed to pick up at this morning Carboot.
DKNY girls skirt £1
Lovely BNWT lace 50's style dress from Debut at Debenhams( labelled £70!!) £2
lace and jewel trimmed grey bustier top River Island £2
Cute Blue ditsy dress New look £1
Multi colour jersey sundress Asos £1
dark blue jeggings new £1
cute cup of tea brooch pin £1
ditsy print blouse New Look £1
PC game £1

Looking forward now to see what tomorrow brings

thezib

hey guys,
havnt been chazzing for a while,
but i went to the BHF yesterday, wat did i find...
a very large canvas painting of a flower for £1.80!
i snagged it up immediately, it was so heavy.
went to my local tescos to buy some stuff,
a lady saw the tag an asked if it was really £1.80.lol
i said yes and she couldnt believe it,she asked me where i got it.
i happily informed her of bargains to be gotten from CS.
well, thats one new convert

thezib

goanmad wrote: »

Lulu - thanks for the lovely words!
I'm in the middle of a spring declutter. (She says after just listing another pile of stuff brought back this morning). Until last week my spare room was full of eBay boxes, vinyl, books and general tat picked up on our travels. Jon managed three trips to the tip and the BHA had a donation of three bin bags. Every photo on my blog usually involves a mad scuffle to shift the piles of books and kick aside the general clutter.

goanmad, i just love your blog and its amazing how devoted you are to it. you make those clothes awesome.the entry about the diary just made me cry,u would think stuff like this only happens in movies.

Pookie_lou

Hi guys, can I join your faboulous thread? I have been reading about all your wonderful finds over the last few weeks, and am a huge fan of all things second hand and finding bargains! Some I ebay, some I keep, im afraid my keep pile seems to be getting bigger and bigger lately!

My faboulous charity shop finds for today were-

*Hand painted butter dish £2 ( Def a keeper!)
*New look summer dress £1
*Shabby chic, floral print double plant pot holder- £2 - I will use it as a desk tidy as im afraid me and plants to seem to get on!
*Beautiful vera moda vintage style vest top, 50p
*Book - Dicken - Martin Chuzzlewit, 50p, I cant find the date it was printed but it looks very old and will look great in my collection
*1965 edition of H.G Wells, A short history of the world - 30p
*China tea set, 3 cups and saucers and 8 side plate £1.80!

Fingers crossed for better weather tomorrow so I can visit local car boot.

scotrae

I had four hours to kill while my passport was made up in Newport today and hubby had told me to go and buy myself some new clothes because I'm always wearing freebies and second hand ones these days. So I went in search of the charity shops!

First of all, a gorgeous patterned Rocha John Rocha dress with the quality control label intact and unwashed on the side hem label - so unworn surely? £4.50.

Pretty Primark layered-effect top - like a pretty cream blouse insert and sleeves with a sage t-shirt. It looks unworn too and a bargain at only £2.55.

M&S fitted linen-type trousers -navy and white stripes with buckle ... rather smart ... £4.50.

And best of all I found a Red Cross clearance shop - where as far as I could see all the clothes were marked down to only £1, including a BNWT trenchcoat. I got a full length beige sleeveless dress with belt - by George. Didn't bother trying it on at that price but it looks great - and is exactly what I was needing for a hot work trip.

One thing that appalled and upset me though - in one of the shops the staff/vols were being really loud and rude about an old man who was shopping in there - and spraying air freshener in his direction, following him around. Everyone deserves dignity and respect don't they? I'd certainly expect a charity shop and the people working or volunteering there to hold those values.

lola34

I went jumbling yesterday and got

2 doughnut tins 10p each
Hornsea coffee pot £1
Blue and yellow spotty butter dish 50p
Some material for DS's fancy dress for school 10p
Oasis skirt 30p
Topshop skirt 30p
Jaegar dress 25p
1980's black drop wasit dress 25p
Laura Ashley Ditsy maxi dress 25p
Pied de terre boots 50p
Hotter shoes 50p think there was a couple more things but can't remember them

in the afternoon popped to the CS and got myself a pair of Next jeans 3.49

goanmad

Pookie_lou wrote: »

Hi guys, can I join your faboulous thread? I have been reading about all your wonderful finds over the last few weeks, and am a huge fan of all things second hand and finding bargains! Some I ebay, some I keep, im afraid my keep pile seems to be getting bigger and bigger lately!

Hello! You sound worrying like me!
No boot sale today, glorious weather but the pub beckons!
Can't wait to hear of everyone else's bargains.

emerald_starcat

Yippee, went to my first car boot of the year!
I managed to get:

Topshop teal puffball dress, with tags attached for £1
kookai loose fitting teal jumper (yes I like teal!) for £1
Tom Woolfe black bolero for £1
Dorothy perkins long grey jumper £1
Pilot grey cardigan 50p

Not a huge car boot however was nice to go to one after such a long time (October was the last one I went to).

Anyway it can only get better as the year progresses and the weather gets better!