Sort of debt-free but hope to be a super-scrimper in 2019

HairyHandofDartmoor

Good luck with your selling Carboot, I've hope you've sold lots of things and added to your treat fund .

I think Jwil gave you good advice about the default issue by the way.

Hope you have a lovely weekend .

Seasidegal58

Belated congratulations on settling the penultimate debt carboot!:j

And I hope you had a successful day today!

SSG x

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Thank you, everyone for your good wishes for s successful Table Top Sale:T


It was successful in that I managed to clear some clutter and a raise a bit of money in the process. There were only 7 tables set up in a really big village hall but mine was next to a radiator so I was happy:j. It was quite a trek from car park to the actual corner of the hall where I was stationed, via a couple of narrow doorways and corridors so carting everything in and then back to the car again afterwards took a while. There seemed to be lots of people entering the hall but they tended to stand around in knots chatting and drinking coffee for a lot of the time, completely ignoring the stalls:eek:


I sold £56.20's worth of items in the end though I had to pay £5 out of that for the pitch. Not a fortune made but will add to my 'treats' fund:j. Everything I sold was cheap and small. Although I sold a lot of individual items it's made barely a jot of difference to the space I've gained from doing it:rotfl:. The things that sold were CDs, craft materials like sewing threads, mugs, paperbacks and such like.


One woman drove me crazy spending about 20 minutes rummaging through the unused skeins of Anchor embroidery thread to find one that took her fancy. They were only 20p each and she said it wasn't for anything specific. She wasn't searching for a particular shade it was just to add to her collection. There was a rainbow of colours to choose from but she kept picking one out, putting it back, selecting another etc etc. In the end she said there was just too much choice and she couldn't make up her mind. She wandered off without buying one or anything else on the table either:(


A little while later someone else came up and said she'd take the whole box full of threads:j. I know her from a quilting group I used to belong to, she always has some project or other on the go. She didn't even make an offer and was happy to pay what I wanted which was at least 2/3rds off the going rate anyway and they were all brand new and complete skeins. Everybody happy:j. Then just as I was packing up the original undecided woman came rushing up and said she'd take one of the ones she'd been interested in earlier. She seemed quite miffed when I told her that I'd sold the lot:rotfl:


Now to organise more items for another sale next Saturday. Sales at next week's venue are really worthwhile so I'll be looking forward to it:j


I hope everyone is having a good weekend. The weather here today is glorious for a change. It would be ideal for a nice walk but OH is painting the repaired sheds with wood preservative so isn't available. I don't feel like going on my own today:(

jwil

Well done on the sales :T

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Karmacat wrote: »

I'm glad you're okay, CBC - don't blame you for retreating a little in the least, especially with what you were dealing with. Hope it all goes really well tomorrow, and you come home with nothing at all

Thank you. KC:)

I hope the 'nothing at all' you mention refers to the goods for sale rather than the money I might make:p

Karmacat

:eek: you know fine well it does well caught! I didn't read that at all :eek: very oops :rotfl:

elizabethhull

Well done on the sale - a nice little earner.
And even if the space released is small, it's that many fewer bits of 'clutter' to find homes for,

One does meet some strange people at these events !!

beanielou

50 quid for the treats fund is great

HairyHandofDartmoor

That's brilliant about making £50 for your treats fund, despite the annoying woman, you should have said to her "You snooze, you lose" :rotfl:.

Seasidegal58

Echoing everyone on your successful sales! Could work out a nice little earner!:)