[hectic]

Ya gotta love em!

Went to my local one today, never usually have much luck but we managed to come away with the following...

3 man tent complete apart from pegs - £1
double air bed - £1.50
Portable stereo full working order - £2

All in all a rather successful mornings work!

[janet12000]

You can get tent pegs for erm a pound.....at the famous shop thats sells things for a pound. 

[BobandJack]

We don't have car boot sales like that round here so I'm really jealous.  People round here want to sell complete dodo at ridiculous prices, £10 for old mirrors etc. It does my head in. They would want £20 for a tent here so well done you   

[hectic]

To be honest it was a surprise as its a fairly posh part of surrey so the bargains are out there!

Update on lilo lil - lasted about 10 mins before she deflated - ah well was worth a go! 

[BobandJack]

could you mend it with a puncture repair kit or something would that be more pricey than just buying a new lillo?

[hectic]

Unfortunately theres no visible damage so think the rubber has perished at the seems and its slowly coming out.

[BrianK]

Best place I found for bargains was the weekly sale at Ascot. Very posh people selling great items for next to nothing. Picked up a brand new pink Jasper Conran junior coat for £4.00 because the little girl it was bought for said the fur (fake of course) collar made her neck itch.  Oh. She wanted £5.00 for it but I knocked her down a quid. 

Also  oops  wait.. theres a chicken walking through the living room brb. OK no poop to clear up.  Also got a hardly used de walt circular saw for 15 quid as the gentleman's wife bought a new one (probably argos own make  ) that came in a fancy box as she didn't like seeing all the tools lying about on shelves in the garage. Thank you very very much.

[Poolfield2]

De Walt, my favourite, what kind of wally was she

[sunshineband]

My friend who lives oppposite is unable to have a job due to a disability -- he frequents car boot sales to buy small wooden boxes, usually in a bad state that he then renovates into items of real beauty. Once a month he sells 'em on, usually at aaround £4 - 5. Not bad as he makes sure he spends £1 or less to start with.

Doesn't pay all the bills but it sure does help and it's better than sitting on your *** all day. Can't manage an allotment sadly but grows some veg now in his garden 

[Poolfield2]

It's the sense of the hunt that I like, I collect Denby Manor Green from the 1950s-1970s and I love it when I find an odd plate in a charity shop or boot sale.

[MoreWhisky]

I bought a fantastic portuguese terracota mixing bowl today which has a lovely green glaze inside for £4  from my local car booty 

Made some lovely bread in it tonight 

[smud6ie]

To be honest it was a surprise as its a fairly posh part of surrey so the bargains are out there!

Update on lilo lil - lasted about 10 mins before she deflated - ah well was worth a go! 

you must live in a different part of wales to me,around the area of Wales in which I live there are lots of really good boot sales and if you pop over the border into England there are even beter ones at Coleford and Cheltenham :happy:
smud6ie

[BobandJack]

Smud6ie I live in Ceredigion, about as far from the border as I can be really & Cardis (& seemingly the incomers too) are notoriously tight I'm afraid, hence the poor quality  & silly prices.  The only really big one hereabouts is down in Carmarthen which is a bit of a jaunt from here, at least a 3 hour round trip, so any bargains I find are probably outweighed by the amount of diesel it takes to get there 

[funstuie]

The local car boot sale near me (Selhurst park) is rubbish. It just folk selling complete dodo (I am pretty sure I saw a few people selling underwear - that didn't look new) and asking too much for it.

I went along hoping to find some tools or garden equipment but there was nothing.

[Parsnip]

I did my first ever car boot yesterday....it was pretty quiet becuse they'd had one on Sunday too which apparently was packed i still made £77 though...