Sunday, March 19

Trading Places

So was it worth it?
Was it worth getting up at 5:10am on a Sunday morning?
Was it worth trudging down to the shower before the heating had kicked in?
Was it worth loading up my car with seven large boxes of books and nearly 300 CDs before the sun had crept over the tops of the trees?
The answer was a resounding YES!

Our Market Stall

I doubted today would go well, even as we drove up to the Market today I had my doubts (my first fear was that wouldn't get a pitch, due to the fact that we could already see that it was a nice day).. But as soon as I parked the car outside our stall we got early indications that things were going to go well. Before we'd even got anywhere near halfway unloading, there were tonnes of people looking around the boxes (some of which were still in the boot).
In fact the intial interest in the crap we had to sell was a little overwhelming at first. We later found out that first thing in the morning is when professional traders come to snap up the bargains.. hence one bloke bought nearly seventy CDs in a single transaction and another just bought a whole box of paperbacks (about 40 books in all) - and all this was in the first hour!!!
It was a fun day actually, haggling over prices, seeing people browsing through your stuff and getting a very welcome bacon butty about eight o'clock in the morning- bliss.
And, we made about £200 profit and sold most of what we had to get rid of to make way for the nursery. Yeah, we came back with a couple of boxes of books (most of which will be heading to Oxfam tomorrow) and about 100 CDs (which will be a mixture of eBay auctions, and charity shop donations), but we got rid of a lot of crap today and made some cash too! Fantastic!!
Oh and we picked up a little something for the yet unborn baby K too, just to fit in with the theme of "Winnie the Pooh" that we're going for in the nursery:

Pooh

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