Getting the Bug....

Fish

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No golf today as me and HID did another boot market.

I have to say I'm actually enjoying it and having the craic with customers and neighboring sellers. It is huge and indoors at the Stoneleigh Ground where the Royal Show used to be held. You get a large pitch that will take at least 3 folding wallpaper tables plus about 1m extra at each end as your vehicles are parked sideways.

The downside is getting up at 04.15am to get their at 05.30hrs :eek:

That's 2 now we've done and both have been very lucrative :)

When we tallied up the conversation and mood changed though as HID saw it as 20% towards the mortgage and I saw it as 20% towards my membership :mmm:

Looking to do it once a month I think until all the spare/extra stuff we have runs out and its not worth it.
 
Went through a phase of doing them last year at Burscough. It's a really big Boot Sale, more of a market now to be honest. After the 4th one, I decided that I'd better stop as I was eventually going to get arrested for brutally assaulting the clowns who saunter over to your car as you're unloading and start rooting round. Pushily demanding that you sell all your decent stuff to them so they can sell it on their patch. I managed to get into about 4-5 real heated arguments before I called it a day.

Made some decent money though. Now I just use eBay....
 
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