Archive for July 2008
Boot Sale Bargains
Posted on Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:30 by Michelle
I go to a boot sale almost every weekend, this is something my partner and I enjoy, although we don’t often buy very much we have had some wonderful bargains. My best possession from a boot sale purchase has to be my Kenwood chef, which I got for £10 including a potato peeler and mincer.
When I was there this weekend, I turned on my newly installed sports tracker on my lovely N95 phone. It did run out of battery, but not sure yet if that’s because Sports Tracker is heavy on juice or because my phone had not been charged overnight. Even with the new software I’m lucky to get 24 hours out of the phone, and often much less with any applications running.
It did manage to plot my whole walk though and I was quite surprised to see that I walked 3 miles. It looks odd on the Sports Tracker website as you see my concertina path through a field. While I was there, I was thinking about the strange things you see at a boot sale, there often tends to be runs on things and for a while almost every seller had a glass chess set, then there were salad spinners to be seen on every other stall.
Although there is often something unusual, this week was head and shoulders above the rest. On one stall I saw a broken mannequins arm, as people went past most picked it up and examined it closer. I thought about it for some time, but apart from possibly some sort of bizarre art or paperweight, could think of no reason for wanting to own a severed arm.
As we left the field and joined the car park a man was taking a pony out of the back of a van. I’m not talking a horse box here; this was a small Bedford type van, and a very small cute looking pony. Maybe he had became agitated it the back of the van, something had obviously excited him, as I noticed after I took the photo minus the pony’s head.
My purchases this week.
- A couple of DVD’s to sell - Exorcist Trilogy and Blazing Saddles (both now sold)
- Books for my daughter - she’s currently reading anything about people who have overcome tragic young lives. A popular subject apparently, and we got her 4 books.
- Denby coffee pot and jug – this was a real find, everyone was packing up and this was behind a picture all they wanted was £1 for both bits. They had broken the sugar bowl and creamer on the way there. Profit from them will be sweeeeet.
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