Bin pickers, Boot dippers and Bargain hunters
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It's that time of year when up and down the country people sacrifice their Sunday morning lay ins, leave the flock of their churches and pay £2 to look around other people's crap in a field.
That's right it is...
CAR BOOT SALE SEASON
As the season is upon us I thought it would good to have a thread where we share bargains we find IRL.
Forget about Gumtree scams and waiting for eBay auctions to end while your mates are at the pub.
Get elbows deep in boot sale bargains, charity shop finds, loot some skips and try to avoid offending anyone at house clearances.
Then share your wares here.
Can be games, cds, books, trinkets or whatevs. -
Currently hooked on buying CDs in charity shops. Bought another 7 at lunch today from Oxfam.
Will Smith - Switch single
The Streets - A Grand dont come for free
All Saints - All Saints
Whitney Houston - My Love is Your Love
Rhianna - Pon de Replay single (with free polyphonic ringtone!)
Lauren Hill - Miseducation
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
quid each
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Was it a car?Gamertag: gremill -
Outrun?iosGameCentre:T3hDaddy;
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Sillys. Griff doesnt buy things second hand.
His answer will be either "nothing" or "laughs at poor people".
I got a leather bucket chair off the street the other day. Had a sign on it saying to help yourself.
Bit of boot polish and some leather treatment and it looks like new. Found 6p and a rubber lizard down the side of it as well. -
I recently bought 45 CDs from RetroK's uncle at a quid each before he took them to a boot sale. I was in a rush when I was selecting them, so I probably ended up with 15 I don't really want (and a Not-Elvis Jive Bunny type thing managed to sneak into the 'yes' pile), but there were some bargainous compilations in there.
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Don't know many of those CDs Live, but Hello Nasty is cracking. Bargain for £1. -
Found loads of decent card in a bin, well I never, my mate did. Then we realised it wasn't fit for purpose so we put it back"Better than a tech demo. But mostly a tech demo for now. Exactly what we expected, crashes less and less. No multiplayer."
- BnB NMS review, PS4, PC -
Before my dad moved onto his boat our front room looked like the moleman's cavern. He held onto every piece of dead relative's furniture he got his hands on, and things like ('perfectly good') rusty bicycles were making their way onto the pile, which he'd found walking the dog. One day we woke up to find an 8ft plastic Lower Sydenham sign in amongst the junk, which he'd pulled from the railway line after some youths had chucked it on...then carried it 1/4 of a mile home to keep. There was a narrow path to the TV, which he sat on the floor in front of (not on the sofa, which was held up with bricks - there wasn't room). One of his mottos became 'there's no such thing as a bad scotch', and the ceiling above the spot in front of the sofa had traces of a burgeoning pipe patch. We also had no hot water or central heating for 4 or 5 years from around 1999, and heated baths on the hob.
All of the above started after he spent £7 on Status Quo/Genesis cds in Oxfam. -
Haha.
Your Dad and my Dad would get on. Although mine is pretty good at DIY, almost to a fault.
It's like he invents "jobs that need doing".
To be fair it keeps him fit.
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Car boot sale today.
Haul included.
1x Borat's guide to Kazakhstan book - 50p
6x CD Singles - 60p
1x Peroni drip tray/drainer. Nice brushed alluminium thing. £2
1x Cabinet mountable bottle opener - 50p
The real find though was a bowling ball.
Perfect weight and finger size for myself. Came in a proper leather bag with metal support frame. Only when I got it home I realised it also had a pair of bowling shoes inside as well. A few score cards stuffed inside suggest it has sat in a cupboard since 1974. Really cool retro-curio.
£8
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We should donate a tenner every Sunday to see what random crap Live buys for the thread. At the end of the year he has to film himself trying to sell it all back to the public at a boot sale. If he makes less than £10 he has to do a forfeit decided by DS.
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A bit harsh making him forfeit his son.iosGameCentre:T3hDaddy;
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I would easily make back the money.
Someone rent me a stall in a trendy London market. -
Id just make you eat cheetos or something cos you're adorable -
Charity shops in small seaside towns often have great vinyls for 50p or a quid, half my record collection comes from charity shops. It's also nice to find really old/weird/foreign stuff that isn't on iTunes and will probably never be sold digitally.Today is the shadow of tomorrow.
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I bought an adult pogo stick from a local charity shop for £5 this weekend. Not sure why. Maybe because it's a pretty cool piece of adjustable shiny metal. My record stands and 3.5 pogos.
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and a half??"I spent years thinking Yorke was legit Downs-ish disabled and could only achieve lucidity through song" - Mr B -
I thought maybe you poed but it didn't go, something along those lines"I spent years thinking Yorke was legit Downs-ish disabled and could only achieve lucidity through song" - Mr B
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Careful of the old family jewels Syph.
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I've got 2 already. If the jewels go, it's just saving on the inevitable op.
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DS got my back.Dark Soldier wrote:Id just make you eat cheetos or something cos you're adorable -
Likelihood of bin dipping tomorrow, 75%- will report back"Better than a tech demo. But mostly a tech demo for now. Exactly what we expected, crashes less and less. No multiplayer."
- BnB NMS review, PS4, PC -
Racist"Better than a tech demo. But mostly a tech demo for now. Exactly what we expected, crashes less and less. No multiplayer."
- BnB NMS review, PS4, PC -
Does anyone want to see a photo of me looking for a cheque in our wheelie bin about ten years ago? I didn't hear my wife sneak out with the camera so she captured the bin raiding element of surprise quite well.
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