This weeks car boot bounty

We got there late (after midday) and the rain clouds were gathering so a lot of the sellers were packing up and leaving but there were still some diehards selling some bargains! The cd rack for Mr C's office 50p and the lovely lady gave us the 3 cd's for free and 1 is Simply red so I'm happy! The Ikea plant stand for the conservatory 50p, large tupperware container 50p, toys 20p each (1 for the puppy and 1 for the toybox) and the videos were only 10p each! includes Working girl - a favourite of mine, One fine day, The Associate, I Claudius part 1 & 2 and Monty Python vol 10 so more money saved by not going anywhere near blockbusters! It was a bit of a trolley dash which isn't my favoured way of car booting but at least I got my fix! Total spend £2.40 no entrance fee as we arrived so late!

The other photo shows the fruit and veg we bought as it all looked so good. 2lbs cherries, 2lbs strawberries, 2 bunches of asparagus, 1 huge cucumber and 2 melons which smell delicious. This did cost £8 but I am cancelling this weeks box delivery until next week as we have so much coming in from the garden and plenty of free range eggs, so £2.90 saved. Some of the cucumber will be used with the rest of the home made yogurt, some garlic and some mint sauce to make tzatziki . We will have some of the asparagus with tonight's Remoska roast chicken dinner and put the rest into the freezer. Some of the fruit is destined for the freezer to make the most of the treat and some will become a big fruit platter to munch on now!

More Car Boot Bounty!

More spending yes! but bargains galore! I needed some flower pots, I often give plants as presents and like to put them in nice pots, our spider plants are reproducing so it became a need!

the lovely green set of 3 plant pots cost £1.50, the white pot 50p and the little red one was added in as a bonus! The large cream pot was 50p.

I had been looking for pie dishes and pots for the Remoska and got the 4 metal pie dishes for 30p total! The little casserole (an exact replica of my favourite family sized casserole) was only 20p. The large tupperware rectangle was £1 and the small tupperware round was 10p, the round floral metal dish with a lid was 50p - all for organising my fridges. 2 silver storage jars for 10p each, an Antony Worrall Thompson "Appetite for Life" flora cookbook for 10p (from the 10p box), 2 bouncing balls 50p (for the puppy) and a soft toy 10p (can't show you that as she has destroyed it! took 5 mins) completed the bargains.

Total £6.70 - £2 from a charity stall so that leaves £26 in the charity budget.

Also spent £7 in aldi on some food essentials.

I have to be very good now and keep my purse tightly closed!

Boot Sale Bargains (or some folks rubbish is definately other folks treasure!)

I finally got to my first car boot sale this year, I do try to go as often as I can but hadn't got around to it until now. So glad I did this time as the first stall I came to had the lovely Johnson Bros Rose dawn platter and sugar bowl for only £1.50. I already have some green dawn plates so I guess I am collecting them now!

Other bargains were the much needed sewing basket for £1 so I can now "make do and mend" and the videos were only 10p each! Much cheaper than hiring a dvd! I have always wanted to see Fried GreenTomatoes with Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy.

Best of all was on our way back to the car someone had just dumped a pile of stuff saying help yourself and a few folk were, I had a quick look and in a box on the top of the pile I found some vintage pyrex! The first piece was a meatloaf dish in the 1982 "poppy" pattern and the other was a real delight as I have been hankering after some of the 1961 lobster pattern pyrex after seeing some on Elizabeths Making Good Use blog so I was thrilled to now have a piece for free! What a lovely day!