Car Boot Sales were born in the 80`s/90`s and for me reached their peak quite soon after they appeared. I haven’t been near one for many, many years until today. The reason for staying away was due to the amount of junk that people were trying to sale, items that the majority of us would throw away, and these kind of stalls or boots of cars were on the increase. Today I was persuaded to attend a car boot sale at Leysdown in Kent, after many deliberations I agreed. It was a fantastic sunny morning and I was quite happy to go along for the ride more than anything else. I was pleasantly surprised when we arrived and I found good quality of items on at least 75% of the stalls. Obviously people have woken up and realised you cannot just palm off undesirable merchandise; it has to be of good quality and appealing to most.
My interest grew as we moved up and down the rows of cars, and I started to think actually I could get myself a bargain or two here. In this day of tightening our belts and those dreaded words that just seem to role off of everyone’s lips whatever the topic “the credit crunch”, a bargain is definitely not to be sniffed at. Suddenly my mind started wandering and I was imagining all kinds of reasons as to why I should have whatever was being sold. You really can get carried away but luckily I snapped out of it and only bought items that I actually needed. First of all I hit the plant stalls, I love plants and needed two to finish off a particular part of the garden. I couldn’t believe the quality and the price. I bought two large new guineas of bright pink which are ideal for what I needed; £1 each what a bonus, these would be at least £4 to £5 in a garden centre. I then found two brand new camping lights that I needed for my Gazebo – 2 for a £1 unbelievable and they work perfectly. My bargains continued with a very stylish sun curtain for the kitchen door and lastly the best buy of the morning a very trendy bright orange large, chunky pottery vase, it is fabulous and £1 to boot. As you can tell car boots have gone up tremendously in my estimation and I will definitely be going again.
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