A bit council (Vol 3)
Discussion
I like a good car boot sale, but many of the points raised are good ones. But when you have old cars, they can be a good source of tools, parts sometimes and the like. I've had some good bargains over the years, but equally many more times I've just walked past stall after stall of second-hand clothes.
Saleen836 said:
hyphen said:
Obesity is set to bankrupt the NHS; the first step is to make it socially unacceptable. Lay off the pies, thunder-thighs.
As for car boot sales, like anything council it's a state of mind. Burger-munching, zafira-driving wobble-monsters harking to get 10p off a stolen ashtray, is a council state of mind. But my mum does boot sales and can spot a bargain a mile off - as such she has 12 crates of Worcester porcelein in the garage. All from boot sales, all paid 50p or less for each item.
I picked up a Clarice Cliff milk jug offered for 10p a few years back. I told the bloke it was worth more and he said 'ok mate, call it a quid' and chucked out a gurgly COPD-ridden laugh, exposing a tar-stained gob with only a third of his nicotine-stained teeth remaining. I gave him a quid and said it was a clarice cliff. 'Don't give a f
k, mate' he replied 'just glad to get rid of it'. 'oh' I said.Stopped by the stall an hour later to peruse his other wares, as I picked up a plate he said '50p mate but yours for a fiver' and gave another gurgly chuckle, and admitted he was joking about the quid, thought I was a bit of a mug for paying ten times the asking price. 'Not at all' I replied. 'Like I said it was a Clarice Cliff and one sold on ebay a while back for £800.'
You could hear his aneurysm pop from the other side of the field as his dreams of upgrading the zafira to a frontera on gumtree went up in a huge cloud of vaping smoke.
schmunk said:
kowalski655 said:
That is such a poetic description Wican 
Did you sell it for£800?
No, turns out it was fake - worth 99p at best.Did you sell it for£800?
I did ebay it in the end, went for just under £200 iirc plus fees etc. Wish I'd kept it, that stuff is worth an absolute fortune now. Currently a huge revival in the arts and crafts movement. People are buying them as investments.
CharlesdeGaulle said:
Wiccan of Darkness said:
... But my mum does boot sales and can spot a bargain a mile off - as such she has 12 crates of Worcester porcelein in the garage. All from boot sales, all paid 50p or less for each item.
What does she plan to do with these 12 crates of unwanted crockery? 
MWM3 said:
I'm loving the Top Gun jacket, with the "Maverick" logo.as they crash their mobility fighter jet. Well take my breath away or my dole pole.
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