i enjoy them and have found a few cycling related bargains over the years including a few complete bikes , today we went to a local one and for the 2nd time recently same old boy selling a nice old Dawes road bike , made him a cheeky offer on first lap and wa
What??? What happened??? Did he take your cheeky offer? You can't leave us in suspense...
Anyway, I like a car boot sale, as a customer - though it's hard to resist the call of tat, I manage, and have had some great deals over the years, which I won't bore you with here.
We have an attic full of 'stuff' that was put to one side last year when we sorted the accumulated junk out up there, so we're now girding our loins to get rid of it in the next couple of weeks. The only
threat motivational speech I can offer to the OH, who is even less inspired than me is that it needs to go, and come the late autumn he's going to have two choices, if we don't car boot it now. These are:
- List and sell it on fleabay. It'll need to go at 5 items a week to balance sanity against 'get rid of the ruddy stuff, get it out of the house'. It'll be Himself who has to do it, as he's retired and I have to go to work. He will hate every second of it, other than the final moments of any auction.
or
- Take it to the charity shop. As Mr 'That's worth something, that is. I'm not throwing that away; I'm not just giving it away, you know', that would positively kill him.
At the moment, he's just refusing to discuss it, which I'm taking as a sign that he's about to admit defeat; we may just bite the bullet and get it done before we go away in a couple of weeks.
Oh - and to make £55 of money in your hand (yes, yes, minus expenses) you'd need to make another tenner or so at work to clear £55, if that cheers you up at all.... As long as you're getting rid of genuine 'personal and surplus to requirements' stuff, it's not (yet) taxable, I believe