Soldato
Hello..
My name is slinxy and I’m addicted to going to car boots… just wondering if anyone else here share my passion?
Don’t get me wrong, I just love going to them and most of the time come home empty handed but if there’s an outsiders chance of finding something amazing there or even discovering that there’s something I need in my life and then ordering it online later, I’m there..
I guess my passion started when I was a kid. Growing up my parents never had much cash, so they would often go to charity shops, weird markets like the Sunday market in Castle Donington and of course car boots sales. It was often the only opportunity of me getting a toy or something to cool, so I went with them.
Now a days, I’ve particularly have completed Amazon, going to most shops are very same-same and boring in the stuff they sell. I also pop into charity shops, when I can… but going to a car boot is like going to 100s of charity shops, brick and bracks stores all in a small area and I love it!!
I have to have a lot of self control to stop my house filling up with junk, not buying everything amazing I see and would like to think my house is just filled with “chic”, as people are often asking me “where did you get that” and I often let them take the item home with them.
From time to time, I do box up a load of stuff and pass them onto a charity store, but I guess everyone should/could be doing this…
Today I spent loads…
I got 2 bottles of mould removal, the same one that cost £8 pounds at the supermarket for £2 pounds each, one bottle is for my sister in law, as I got a bottle the other week and she’s seen how clean my wet room was after I used it.
£5 pounds on a sega mega drive 3 button controller.
£3 pounds on a amperage meter from a WW2 plane… going to do something cool with it like place it in a Dixie clock..
50p on a retro spud gun.. been meaning to get one for a while but they are made from plastic now a days, this is a metal one.
£1 on a coffee table book, British science museum on Robots
£1 on four blu rays, two of them un-open; cowboys & aliens, underworld, the adjustment bureau and serenity. I wanted to watch Serenity a few weeks back but got bored looking for it on the streaming services.
£2 pounds a cactus plant in cool tall glass display.
with a pound entry fee.. it was 3 hours of entertainment for £17.50.. I spent more than that on my pub lunch afterwards lol
My name is slinxy and I’m addicted to going to car boots… just wondering if anyone else here share my passion?
Don’t get me wrong, I just love going to them and most of the time come home empty handed but if there’s an outsiders chance of finding something amazing there or even discovering that there’s something I need in my life and then ordering it online later, I’m there..
I guess my passion started when I was a kid. Growing up my parents never had much cash, so they would often go to charity shops, weird markets like the Sunday market in Castle Donington and of course car boots sales. It was often the only opportunity of me getting a toy or something to cool, so I went with them.
Now a days, I’ve particularly have completed Amazon, going to most shops are very same-same and boring in the stuff they sell. I also pop into charity shops, when I can… but going to a car boot is like going to 100s of charity shops, brick and bracks stores all in a small area and I love it!!
I have to have a lot of self control to stop my house filling up with junk, not buying everything amazing I see and would like to think my house is just filled with “chic”, as people are often asking me “where did you get that” and I often let them take the item home with them.
From time to time, I do box up a load of stuff and pass them onto a charity store, but I guess everyone should/could be doing this…
Today I spent loads…
I got 2 bottles of mould removal, the same one that cost £8 pounds at the supermarket for £2 pounds each, one bottle is for my sister in law, as I got a bottle the other week and she’s seen how clean my wet room was after I used it.
£5 pounds on a sega mega drive 3 button controller.
£3 pounds on a amperage meter from a WW2 plane… going to do something cool with it like place it in a Dixie clock..
50p on a retro spud gun.. been meaning to get one for a while but they are made from plastic now a days, this is a metal one.
£1 on a coffee table book, British science museum on Robots
£1 on four blu rays, two of them un-open; cowboys & aliens, underworld, the adjustment bureau and serenity. I wanted to watch Serenity a few weeks back but got bored looking for it on the streaming services.
£2 pounds a cactus plant in cool tall glass display.
with a pound entry fee.. it was 3 hours of entertainment for £17.50.. I spent more than that on my pub lunch afterwards lol
