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<p>[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 54958, member: 29"]If I'm buying non old stuff, for me to keep, it's eclectic to say the least. At car boot sales here, you get everything from house clearance pros to food. There's a bloke sells well in date yummy crisps and chocolate and nibbles, for example. I can get ten packs of Tyrells crisps for a pound. They cost ten times as much in the stupidmarket. A year or so back he had the most wonderful plain chocolates with passion fruit, lemon and raspberry fillings. Apparently, as given to First Class BA passengers. </p><p><br /></p><p>I buy clothes like mad. Often for me - there's a car boot in Essex where the gals sell brand new stuff, tags still on, for absolute peanuts. I'm actually not fussed if stuff is gently worn, either. I buy clothes and other bits for my year old godson, who's mama is very sensible indeed and has no hang ups about second hand baby stuff, bless her. I even got her a Moses basket with brand new wrapped mattress for a tenner. </p><p><br /></p><p>And then, there's my friend who works in a hospice and gets paid squat. Every Christmas and birthday she gets a HUGE box of clothes I've picked up - many brand new. She spends a whole day trying on, and having great fun, especially as I sometimes get her things she'd not always think to choose.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 54958, member: 29"]If I'm buying non old stuff, for me to keep, it's eclectic to say the least. At car boot sales here, you get everything from house clearance pros to food. There's a bloke sells well in date yummy crisps and chocolate and nibbles, for example. I can get ten packs of Tyrells crisps for a pound. They cost ten times as much in the stupidmarket. A year or so back he had the most wonderful plain chocolates with passion fruit, lemon and raspberry fillings. Apparently, as given to First Class BA passengers. I buy clothes like mad. Often for me - there's a car boot in Essex where the gals sell brand new stuff, tags still on, for absolute peanuts. I'm actually not fussed if stuff is gently worn, either. I buy clothes and other bits for my year old godson, who's mama is very sensible indeed and has no hang ups about second hand baby stuff, bless her. I even got her a Moses basket with brand new wrapped mattress for a tenner. And then, there's my friend who works in a hospice and gets paid squat. Every Christmas and birthday she gets a HUGE box of clothes I've picked up - many brand new. She spends a whole day trying on, and having great fun, especially as I sometimes get her things she'd not always think to choose.[/QUOTE]
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