Slim Pickings

The thrift pickings have been decidedly thin these past few days.  Thursday's car boot sale was only so-so and yesterday's wasn't much better either.  Of course, I did manage to find a few reasonable bits and bobs.

 
Starting on Saturday morning with two balls of Iceland Lopi Wool - £1.00 each - courtesy of the local charity shop, and a copy of Stitch 'n' Bitch Happy Hooker - which has loads of lovely crochet patterns in it (must get on with trying to crochet) - 75p from the local second-hand shop.

 
Sunday's boot sale yielded a knitting folder stuffed with dolls' dresses knitting patterns, 27 in all, which I paid £4.00 for.  These are all destined to be listed on eBay in the coming weeks as I've done reasonably well with selling these sorts of knitting patterns in the past, and I figured that even if they all sell for 99p only I'll still make a nice profit on this lot.

 
My other finds were strictly of the practical nature - iron hotplate cleaning pads (most definitely something my iron needs), 20p.  A ball of string for 50p, which was handy as I've just this past week used up the last of the string I had.  And the ubiquitous (for me) shower gel, a rather nicely-scented Lacoste one for 20p.

 
Finally, this morning I found this small bottle of Charles Worthington shampoo in the charity shop for 25p.  I do like the Charles Worthington products so even though I don't need UV-protection on my hair (hah, chance would be a fine thing in the UK at the moment) I thought at that price I'd buy it anyway.

I suddenly realised yesterday, whilst walking round the boot sale, that there are probably only about another six weeks of boot sale season to go - and that depends very much on the weather!!  Slim pickings or not, I shall really miss my Thursday and Sunday morning thrifting sessions when the season ends.

Edited to add:  I've linked this post over at Apron Thrift Girl's 'Thrift Share Monday' - loads of interesting thrifty finds from this past weekend. 

Comments

[DogsMom]

Thrifting season here (WI USA) has almost run its course. A big village wide sale this Labor Day weekend, and then things turn mainly to craft sales on weekends. I enjoy those too, but the thrill is not the same.

I thrift practical items.
You found some nice things.

[Amy]

Just be careful of the Happy Hooker patterns! There are LOADS and LOADS of errata online so print them off before you attempt a pattern in this or you will get massively frustrated!! Take it from experience!! Happy crocheting!

[Laura]

The Lopi wool is a great find. It will knit up into something nice, I'm sure!