I'd totally forgotten to add up my buying and selling totals for April until today. I'd spent quite a whopping (for me) £62.97 on buying second-hand items, of which £26.14 was for me. The rise in spending can pretty much be put down to the car boot sales starting up again. During the boot sale season I can usually find enough toiletries - shower gel, shampoo, conditioner, moisturiser - to see me through the whole year without having to buy anything from shops. Also, I've been on the look-out for clothes to fit my (slightly) smaller figure and have been quite successful with that mission so far. £7.00 of the total spend for me also went on buying two brand-new 4-packs of Sloggi knickers (found in a charity shop in Southend) which if I'd bought them from Evans would have cost me approx. £50.00!!!!
So, I spent £36.83 on items for re-sale and sold some of them for £171.86, giving a profit of £135.03. A result which I'm very pleased with. Best re-sale buys of the month were the vintage sunglasses featured in this post which I paid 50p for and sold them for £31.50, several lots of Laura Ashley fabric and curtain finds which have sold very well and two pairs of Dorma Country Diary curtains (one pair from the mega Scout jumble sale in Bristol and one pair found in the local junk shop) the pair from the jumble sale sold for £33.00, the ones from the junk shop for £23.00!! I shall certainly be on the look-out for any more Country Diary items on thrifting forays in the future.
That is some profit. Congratulations!
Posted by: Maureen | 05/13/2011 at 11:37 PM
Well done! I'm inspired. I really need to reactivate my ebay account and give it a whirl again!
Posted by: Shoestring | 05/14/2011 at 09:02 PM