Comments on: Booty!

by: Neil T.

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Once I’ve settled somewhere and laid claim to any useful rubbish in their house I imagine that’s what the parents will be doing. They don’t have a huge amount of junk but there’s still a fair bit lying around that they could easily get rid of.

That said, my mother does give a lot of her old clothes to charity shops. She has two tests: ‘Does it still fit me?’ and ‘Have I actually worn it in a couple of years?’. Unless it’s a particularly special outfit, anything that fails either of those tests ends up in Oxfam pretty quickly.

by: Croila

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Wow, sounds like you might have discovered a new calling in life. I have got loads of stuff to get rid of… Hmmmm. I’ll have to think about this myself!

by: Daisy

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Neil, I have in the past given lots of stuff to charity but it’s a tad disheartening to see how low they price things (I aprecciate that they know their market but still). There’s also the problem in our area that most of the shops are full to capacity and just not accepting any more donations. The game plan is to use part of the money for regular monthly donations*, I’m just saving them money by selling it myself :-)

* but definitely not Oxfam, I think they spend too much on administration.

Croila, go for it! It’s tiring and a little dispiriting to see the thieving that goes on but so much fun. Maybe start off with a small table of d’s clothes that he’s outgrown?

by: mary

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Sounds like so much fun. I don’t think we have a place for that here. We do have yard and garage sales, but you have to advertise in the paper if you want much traffic. This sounds like a great idea. I think I’ll bring it up at our next council. Thanks - rest up.

by: Daisy

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Mary, we do have garage sales here too (people advertise them in local papers) but I think the car boot sale is so popular here because it means you don’t have swarms of people coming to your house. Living with a security conscious retired policeman, he flat out refuses to have a garage sale until we’re about to move from here. But in order to get ready to move from here we have to get rid of oodles of stuff. Chicken, meet egg; Egg, meet chicken.
:-)

by: Nancy

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

I missed this post the last time I checked. Your car boot sale sounded way more fun than my (almost) unending garage sale. I do like making conversation with all kinds of people, but I’m horrible at selling. I just take what they want to give me. “It’s for my mummy’s birthday” - that is low, though!