Wednesday 19 September 2012

The BIG car boot

Judging by previous car boots Tricia and I had done, dvd's, clothes, shoes and bags had all been winners so I had put round several mass pleas for goodie donations, and we certainly weren't let down! I spent the Saturday (which was a wet, miserable day!) sorting out all the bags into mens, womens and kids and then somehow managed to stuff everything plus the rotary clothes dryer and very heavy base, in my car....OK so there was minimal room for Tricia but I'm sure we'd stuff her in somewhere too!
The Sunday we picked dawned dry and bright unlike all previous dates we had penciled in....good choice we thought!
We did manage, just, to get Tricia in the front seat, but only with her being blocked in on her left by the clothes dryer and having two big bags on her lap and one by her feet (I'm not sure we would have been looked upon too kindly had we been stopped by the police en-route!).
The clothes dryer turned into a winner : if we had £1 for everyone who commented on "what a great idea" we'd have made at least another £100. It still blew over a couple of times but didn't land on any passers by (only me!) so I'm not expecting to receive any insurance claims from anyone I'm pleased to say!
Jeans flew off the pegs at £1 a go...Jax had donated about 15 pairs of football boots and most of them didn't hang around long again at £1 a pair. It still surprises me at how much buyers quibble and moan : virtually all of the clothes we had on offer were fantastic quality, some even had their labels on when I'd been sorting through them yet buyers were trying to haggle down to the lowest price possible. I made some feel a bit guilty by saying everything we made was for charity and no, we're not a charity!
Still, we had a pretty good day, making £109 but the amazing thing was that we hardly toughed the sides and my car was still chocca on the way back (although Tricia did at least get the front seat back all to herself!).
We're planning on doing another on 28 October so everything is still stored in my garage but even after that, I think we'll have enough left to do at least another 3 or 4!

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