Alabaster? Candle holder leaves thingy.

Good question.

 

Have to admit, I was always curious about exactly what a "boot sale" was as well.

Don't try to google it or you will be filled with pictures of UGGS.

Can some UK boardie give us a peek into the world of "boot sales"?

 

One of our British comrades will sort me out if I'm wrong on this, but my impression is that, at least some of the time, a boot sale consists of people bringing a car trunk full of things they want to sell to some agreed upon site & selling directly out of the car, not necessarily setting up tables, etc. If that's not how it's done, well, it should be.

 

Well, don't want to disappoint but we have tables ...but yes, cars are filled with other people's crap ( or mine if I do one) and put onto the floor and tables and it's a free for all. It's literally the most fun I have ever had outside. xx

 

When I say free for all I mean no holds barred but you do have to pay for the privilidge of taking something ( TONNES IN MY CASE ) home, but usually the car booter wants to GROI quickly and cheaply which pleases this carbootee xx

 

Not quite. Find a field , large preferably and remove the livestock ( optional). A large car Park will do or a Stately Home garden.
Get up at stupid o clock (by 6am all the good stuff is gone)
Everyone drives their cars into the field and parks in lines and emptied their accumulated cr*p onto tables and blankets.
Late comers are besieged by people almost taking things out of their cars. They name a price that can be unbelievably cheap or more expensive that Christie’s and you haggle at least 50% off.
Brilliant sometimes and others are rubbish.
I was lucky at the weekend and the chap was so laid back he said ‘ go and look at the Jewellery in my car’ which no one else got to do. (I obviously smiled very sweetly!) and he did me a good deal!

 

On a similar vein don't ever google 'dating jewellery'......... no seriously don't do it

 

Looks like this!

 

Flea markets are more upscale.

Yeah, what KSW said. Some booties, like Denham get thousands of stall holders. Too big and too damn early for me. I like smaller ones, especially those with CHEAP! tables/stalls, so you get lots of amateurs. One I know is a fiver a pitch in aid of Scouts. Brilliant. Having said that, the clearance boys who know me save me things I like and do decent prices, so I hardly haggle. In return, they pick my brains on Stuff. I'm happy to do that, it usually brings a reward of some kind. Like a boxed set of Whitefriars glasses which the Very Nice Man said I could have for two quid, after he'd got me to price some stuff for him.

Last Sunday, there were some gals selling newish clothes. Fifty pence each or four for a quid. Does anyone actually buy anything in malls these days, she said entirely rhetorically? Not I.

 

A mobile yard sale.

 

Looks like there's no going home early for the sellers.

 

Well I beg to differ.
It looks like what we call flea markets. Some are more organized than others.

Do you have to pay for spaces?
Is it held every week in the same lot?

 

There are all kinds of flea markets
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=flea+market&FORM=HDRSC2

 

Let's not nitpick over flea markets.

 

I'm not nit picking - (you might be though)

I'm simply saying that I think that Car Boot Sales and Flea Markets are basically the same thing.
People pack up their things into their cars, vans or trucks. Haul it out to a space around 5am (sometimes earlier), set up on tables or throw rugs on the ground put their stuff out and sell it.
Here in the US there are various types of Flea Markets, from the highly organized once a week sale, to the once a year school fund raiser rent a space.
Which they may or may not have in the UK.

That's why I was asking if the Boot Sales have to pay rent for a space.

 

It was a joke, fleas, nits, lice, etc...

 

guess I'm too tired
Didn't catch the joke. Thought you were insulting me. Sorry

 

I could tell it crept by, no offense taken. I forget not everyone's brain works like mine, which is prone to coming up with things like that.

Speaking of prone, think I'll go to bed. 'Night.

 

Same

 

Cluttered...yes we have to pay a fee for the rent of the floorspace...can see horrid typo in my above post :O
Privilege!! Privilege!! I can spell it honest