Despite being up before the crack of dawn yesterday, I was once again up and out the door before the sun was up, this time on another fundraising mission via a car boot. Tricia was able to help me out a little later, but I was already doing a roaring trade when she arrived. Having tried out the rotary washing line last time, we decided just to 'dump' everything on blankets and let people rummage away. It had rained overnight so the ground was a little muddy and there were very quickly quite a few clothes in need of a turn in the washing machine!
We decided that the objective was to sell as much as possible so everything was priced at 50p. It soon caught on and we had lots of customers grabbed armfuls of stuff! We had also had a load of classical cd's given to us by John's dad and Jill and despite thinking that there was no way we would get rid of those, we were delighted by the way these were snatched up : one guy bought 60 for £15! Virtually all the shoes went, loads of clothes, a portable TV and a picnic table, all for 50p each.
We started to pack up at 11.15 as the weather was started to look a bit dodgy and it wasn't long before everyone was frantically packing things away as the rain started to fall. We managed to get everything back into the 3 big laundry bags plus 2 bin liners, definitely way less than I had unpacked but still enough left for at least one more boot sale before the end of the year.
Once again we did well on the cash front : £115.50 and as we didn't take less than 50p for any single item, meant we had dispatched around 230 pieces of 'stuff'. A very good mornings work!
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