Saturday saw the bestest jumble sale in Essex take place at the scout hut in Shenfield. By gum, those Shenfield scouts always have a humungous amount of items at their twice-yearly jumbles - and an appropriately large turnout of punters in response. Despite a horrendous half-hour drive to get there - seemed like every idiot driver in the area had taken to the road at the same time as us - it was well worth the effort of going there, as always.
Amongst two huge bag loads of 'stuff' I came away with some much needed face wash and another unopened Body Shop body butter for myself.
A Sammy vintage gents scarf and three pairs of ladies fancy evening gloves - all found lurking in the bottom of a cardboard box that everyone else seemed to be ignoring, so I had a good rootle around in it and was most pleased with what I found.
Another jigsaw for my Mum. They had piles and piles of jigsaws but mainly of the 1,000 or 2,000 piece variety so this was the only 500 piece one I thought Mum would like.
Some rather nice vintage linens. I also snaffled a pair of lovely Habitat embroidered placemats for me and a gorgeous vintage Christmas tablecloth which has a bit of a stain on one edge that I'm trying to get rid of.
A pair of splendiferous Danish cufflinks for P which I don't think have ever been taken out of their box.
An unopened Accessorize vest and pants set.
An unopened long stitch embroidery kit.
I also came home with a huge stack of books, four T-shirts for my nephew, a Hackett mens suit and a vintage maxi-length Indian block-print wraparound skirt which needs a teensy bit of a repair before it can be ebayed.
Then today, as the icing on the cake of a splendid thrifting weekend, I found THE denim skirt I've been looking for all summer in a local charity shop. It cost me £2.75 and fits like a dream. Pity it's the wrong season to wear it but it won't eat or drink anything in the wardrobe until next summer!!
Wow, what a haul. Why didn't I know about the Shenfield jumble! *sulks*. I went to one in Chingford. It wasn't the best and I bought a load of old rubbish. Very disappointing. xx
Posted by: Loo | 10/09/2012 at 09:29 AM
Well done! You've landed a right haul there and to find the skirt you've been after for ever is the icing on the cake! x
Posted by: Vix | 10/09/2012 at 10:01 AM
What a great haul, the girl did good.
Posted by: fiona | 10/09/2012 at 06:01 PM