Making Good Use: Company at the Car Boot

When I go to a car boot sale, I'm usually looking round on my own - which is fine - but this week I had the lovely treat of looking round with other people - and not just any other people, these were my sister and my nephew.

I was really pleased that my seven-year-old nephew had actually asked to go to the car boot sale again (he went last year and made a bit of a fuss about going but loved it when he was there) and he seemed to enjoy himself a great deal again this year, having come home with half a dozen or so revolting looking action figures (think aliens meet spiders meet dinosaurs type objects) which he was mighty pleased with. As none of them cost more than 50p his Mummy was pretty pleased too. We also managed to find him a navy blue tracksuit for PE at his new junior school - the right size, right colour, made by Umbro and only £3.00. When my sister had said she'd really like to find a navy tracksuit for him at the boot sale I had my doubts that we'd be that lucky but, amazingly, we found exactly what we were looking or.

I found a lovely duvet cover for £2.00. It was on top of a pile of other linens and when I asked how much it was the reply was 'oh that, it's pretty new but I've been using it to pile clothes on at the boot sales (??), would £2.00 be OK?' Why would someone use a newish duvet cover for something like that? Ah well, it's aleady washed, dried and on the bed - and jolly nice it looks too.

The usual toiletries (stocking up now for the coming winter when there won't be any boot sales.) 60p each for the Avon shower gels and 50p for the Next one.

Two Ikea cushion covers - 20p each. I've done quite well with selling Ikea cushion covers on eBay lately and thought I'd take a punt with these. Also bought for re-sale were a couple of really plus-sized Evans clothes - 50p for one top and £1.00 for the other. It's a pity one of the tops is so large as I'd love to wear it myself. Hopefully, it'll sell well and I can use the money I make to buy myself something else instead.