Car Boot Sales

My parents have been doing car boots my entire life but I went to my first ever car boot to sell when I was 5. Websites like Amazon Marketplace and Ebay have not been around my entire life and therefore selling at a car boot was the perfect way to make money. I love car boots and that is because you can sell all of your unwanted things and people can haggle so you can get a fair price. Car Boots are excellent for getting rid of anything I did a car boot last Sunday and we make £215 on just things lying around our house. I wouldn't reccommend going to a car boot unless you have quite a lot to sell as it costs to have a stall and the petrol is a waste ...

I did my first ever car boot sale a couple of weeks ago purely because i had a lot of junk lying around and as like every other family in the country at the moment i have been hit by the credit crunch so i decided to do something about it other than moan for a change! I got up at 5:15am on a bright Sunday morning (wouldnt have bothered if it had rained!) and set off for my friends house who i had also collared into doing one for me. We arrived at our destination in Worcester at 06:00am and could not believe the height of activity that already surrounded us. I wasnt even awake and people were all set up and ready to go! We were advised to arrive early as ...

I first ventured into the world of carboot sales last summer, it was a case of need to rather than want to. Money was tight and our house seemed to be filled with lots of stuff that we never used, i was already using ebay a lot as with three young children they were always growing out of things. The appeal of the boot sale was we could get rid of the big things that its hard to sell on ebay and it was instant money and not wrapping and posting. We found out about a local one and went one sunday to check it out and see what sort of things people were selling, it was quite a big boot sale with about seventy cars and they were seeling all sorts so we decided ...