Our New Life in the Country: Car Booting the Excess

Sunday, 24 April 2011

Car Booting the Excess

During this 'Year of Living Simply' we are really jettisoning of all our surplus possessions and to help us in this mission we are selling at Car Boot Sales whenever we have a morning to spare each weekend through the Summer. Today we were at Burcot Car Boot Sale and managed to come away with another £115 to add to our bank account.

Best sellers of the day were our Free Range Eggs, we almost always take a basket full with us whenever we do a Sale, they are very popular. What's really nice is that when we sell out we always know there will be another three dozen waiting for us back at home, as the 'ladies' will have been laying while we were away.

Now we're home with a much emptier car than we set out (we could even see through the back window on the return journey!) and I'm going to start sorting out again this afternoon for next Sundays sale which will be at Warborough. This is a very popular Car Boot sale held on the Village Green, it's also very picturesque, which I think is why they use it so often in Midsummer Murders, it's very nice to 'location' spot while we're there.

Sue xx

6 comments:

Helen24 April 2011 at 15:01
Very impressive! I loaded up my car last week with every item of clothing I haven't worn in the last year. My closet looks empty, my heart feels full. Someone needed these more than I did ... obviously.
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Heidi24 April 2011 at 15:02
Wow what a turnout...have a blessed Easter!
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BadPenny24 April 2011 at 18:26
Haven't been to a car boot sale for years. When we moved to Spain we furnished our house fom them & when we left sold what we didn't bring back here !

Has fresh eggs for Easter brekkies & still plenty to sell to neighbours xx
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Justine24 April 2011 at 18:37
Well done you x
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Unknown24 April 2011 at 21:00
Congratulations on your £115. What's it for if you don't mind me asking you Sue?

Sft x
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Jane and Chris25 April 2011 at 13:07
That looks like a fun day!
Jane x (We don't have car boot/trunk sales here)
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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