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

medsdemon

OOoh the infamous boots are size 6. Lots of love for them from everyone:)

jtb2412

Lol meds ..... we could have our own auction, who needs £bay ! hehehe

GrammarGirl

museumworker wrote: »

made me laugh that this got censored!

I know! Heh heh!

Had a good scoot around the car boot but it was slim pickings indeed. Very busy (and windy!) and lots of stalls but the quality wasn't great. I did manage to get:

A black patent leather satchel bag with gold buckles. It says 'Moda Italia Metropolis' on it - no idea what that means but it's very pretty! £1.50
100% silk white, navy and yellow dress with net skirt by Trinny and Susannah, £1.50
Grey cotton Miss Selfridge jersey dress, £1.50

Can't wait for next week!

goanmad

No booting for us, an important date with a pint of cider and a pub lunch!

Car Boot Sale on Thursday:
Teal jodphurs £1 (looked up the make and they retail at £125 a pair)
2 x vintage faux fur hats 50p
1950's green glass beads 50p
Framed 1950's retro print of japonicas 50p
Tooled leather purse in black & gold with a mirror inside, labelled "Firenze, Italy" £1

Yesterday we ventured to a couple of charity shops and snaffled:
Guys' All Saints top in pink (J's fave colour)
A vintage peach chiffon pleated skirt (£2.49)
Karen Millen pink snakeskin wedges (£2.99)
Urban Outfitters patchwork suede cross-body purse (£1.49)
3 pristine 1950's pinnys (50p each)
.............................and lots of books for trashy beach reading.


Hope you carry on the good work and get some bargains over the next month whilst I'm on my travels.

Pookie_lou

Didn't manage to get to any car boots yesterday, but did find a few charity shop bargains on Saturday

* French connection shirt £1
* Monsoon shirt £1.50
* Burton Shirt £1 that I have just seen online for £25!

I have got today off, so might try and pop out later to nearby town, but the heavens have just opened, typical!

lola34

Popped into a few CS in my lunch today and got:

New M&S striped tights £2
Muderous maths book and 2x topsy and tim books for DS's 20p each
Spears Bingo set 20p
Cherokee floral print dress £2
1980's M&S housecoat £1.50

they had just taken a big delivery so the staff were pointing out the good stuff to me, think they're used to me popping in now

killielila

got good barguins today im not sure how to post pix but ill tell you
pound land
2 rimmel eyeliners repackaged
a nice blusher
had lots of rimmel and maybelline stuff in
2 heat pads ( stocking up incase the back get bad again save me having to continually boil kettles for hot water bottles )

had to go to sally salon services for bed roll forgot my trader card so had to pay vat poop
but had lots of stuff on sale
banne de terre straightening serum £5.99 down to 84p plus VAT
bdt recovery complex from £4.99 to 84p plus VAT
a bdt hair / scalp mask from £9.98 to 84 plus VAT
a big fluffy bronzer brush that we couldnt find the box for in the scrummel so girl gave me it for £1.99 inc VAT
:T
then charity shop had lovely dresser set with silver ( plate ) mirror and clothes brush and wee tray for £3
a summernew look dress blue and white with little faces dottied over it size 12 to be altered for DD for £3
BHS green and grey mottled kinda colour heavy trousers for mr for £1(need to learn how to post pix ill ask DD later to teach me

and non clothes bargains that i must boast of a pressure cooker ( same as my mum has had oh forever) for £5
3 BNIB book / tape sets keith floyd on meat and 2 margatette paton xmas priced at £2 each snapped them up been trying to find them on line and closet ive seen so far i a floyd 1 from the series without the tape and damaged going for a tenner:eek: i wanna see them but wanna sell them as bnib ( im suddenly turning into comic book guy lol ) they are from the 80's with real tape cassettes not seen 1 in years lol:rotfl:

Jorsha

Well done on your bargains everyone and enjoy your travels, Goanmad
Can't wait until the local car boot starts on sunday (keeping fingers crossed for good weather)

NBirdy

Have been lurking on this thread whilst my local car boots were closed for the winter. There are some good charity shops in a nearby town but with 1 little one who gets easily bored, and another little one in a pushchair with grabby hands, it's just too much hard work! So I sneak off on a Sunday morning once a month (or twice if I can) and grab a quick 'sanity session' where I can rummage at my leisure A bustling car boot is like heaven to me lol. I seem to come home with tons for the little ones and usually nothing for me though??!

Had a FAB bargain yesterday though, a chap had a stall selling mostly ladies clothing, all decent names but sadly not my size. When I got there a woman with an armful of 6 or 7 items was asking the price and was told 50p an item, at which she threw the stuff down in disgust and stomped off saying "£3 for that lot, you must be joking'. Eh?? It was Next, Animal, M&S etc, that was in the shops this winter, in great condition. Well when she left I had a rummage in a big shopping bag that was under the table where she had been - Diesel, Monsoon, and lots of gorgeous going-out clothes (I so wished I was a size 12, or did the buy-to-resell thing!). At the very bottom of the bag was 2 perfumes, still cellophane sealed brand new, one my all-time favourite and one that a friend of mine (with a significant birthday in June that I have to get a gift for ) really likes. I asked how much they were, bearing in mind the price stickers were still on the bottom, £39 and £32, and nearly fell over when he said "£3 for the two?":rotfl:My hand was shaking while I handed over the money lol. Very chuffed with that. :beer:

I can only imagine he was a jilted boyfriend taking some revenge by selling all that lovely stuff so cheap, or he picked up the wrong boxes that morning and his other half is going to kill him later :rotfl:

mariashi

I bought a double umbrella last week on an internet store. It is really lovely and fantastic. May you guys have a try.