It’s been quite a while since my last boot sale bargains post but circumstances seemed to be conspiring against me. The big sale in Chiswick doesn’t normally take place in January, it was cancelled in February due to the snow, and the one in March was pretty much a non-event due to the torrential rain.
The first Sunday of April dawned bright and clear though, so off to Chiswick I trotted and here’s what I got…
The complete DVD set of This Life, £2. Complete and utter bargain considering this normally goes for upwards of £20 on eBay!
Vintage Scrabble set, £2.
Vintage Beatrix Potter books, seven for £5 (should have been £1 each but I haggled). They’re a bit tatty but I have plans for them…
Vintage map, £1. This might not seem hugely interesting to most people but I bought it because of the area it covers – it’s got my dad’s home village on it (Titchfield, in the close up) and I know he’d have liked it.
Vintage book, £3.50. This was a bit more than I wanted to spend, but I did haggle him down from the starting price of £5.
Victorian plant pots, 50p each.
Gorgeous obelisk, £20. Quite pricey but it was brand new, and that’s actually a pretty good price for a good looking obelisk!
There was, once again, so much I wanted to buy but simply couldn’t afford. Here are some of the ones that got away.
I desperately wanted this portmanteau (is that the right word?!), and it would have been so perfect for me… but at £100 I had to regretfully walk away. I thought it was actually a pretty fair price, but fair or not it was out of my very small budget.
Old French bottles, £10 each or £90 for a full crate load. I don’t really have room for these either but I did like them!
I thought this vintage egg case was beautiful. Still complete in every detail down to the cardboard between the two padded layers. Gorgeous but definitely out of my price range at a whopping £160.
Once again I left the boot sale wishing I’d had a bigger budget (and a bigger house in which to hoard things!), but it was a great morning and I was really pleased with the bargains I picked up. Looking forward to the next one, and fingers crossed that the weather is just as good next time!
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