7 days left in the flat. It'll be the end of an era, the first home we've shared together. I'll have to get some photos to show the future kids.
Today was car boot sale 2 and was the Real Deal. Up at 4am, queuing outside the empty lot for 1 hour to get a good spot before it opened at 6am. Last week, many people had told us that it was full of foreigners wanting everything for 20p and that stuff gets nicked on you. Plus it was raining at half 4. Potential nightmare!
When we pulled in at 6am, it was dark. The buyers lurking around at 6am ON A SUNDAY had torches. We opened our doors and they were right there "have you got any mens trainers". WOAH. Hold your horses lady. It took us about 10 mins to get to grips with everything and we told the half dozen peeps to leave us alone for 5 mins and everyone was courteous.
3 of us had 2 cars of stuff. Cleverly our tables were on the bottom, so we had to unload everything to get the tables out to put the stuff on. Anyway, we got sorted in the pitch dark and I think our first sale was our tablemats and coasters for £2. £££ woohoo!
I am still freezing cold to my core after 6 hours standing there.
The footfall was great and we sold a real varied load of items. Yes there were migrants there, but plenty of Brits too. Everybody was polite and after different things for different reasons. All types of people tried to haggle - and why not? Its part of the fun and as the seller, you choose if you take the price or not. Just say "no" with a smile. Nobody asked for anything at 20p, I think the lowest we sold was 50p.
Also no-one nicked anything and no-one had particularly noteworthy dodgy behaviour.
We made over £200 across the 2 car boots. WOOP! That will gratefully go towards buying new items in Australia to set us up again. I am not saying "re-buying" because we have had stern words with ourselves that we will not collect so must stuff again. Ever.
Managed to make carrot and lentil soup for tomorrow's lunch. This will counteract lunchtime's KFC that I gobbled down soaked in gravy after finishing the car boot.
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| Image from bbcgoodfood.com - my soup did not look like this |
Can't wait to eat that soup. I will feel warm again.
Sunny x
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