Car boots have been a big part of my growing up, many a Sunday morning walking around a normally muddy field or school playground looking at the carboot stalls mom and dad buying the most random of objects, Mom collected elephants for a LONG time, shes not gone of this, but my Dad collects anything with a horse on it and also candle sticks!!!
Many of my clothes as a child and teen were from car boots and i have zero problem with it! Why not, pair of jeans 50p? yes please!
This weekend mom and dad have been to there caravan for the 1st time in a while and they went car booting, mom came back with these little jems of items for Harry.
4 pairs of shoes
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2 pair of clarks stomposaurus shoes £1.50 each (still available in-store for £32!!)
1 pair of brand new velcro fasten pumps originally from sainsburys £1.50
1 pair of skecher trainers with flashing traffic lights (bigger size but will keep for when they fit) £2.00 (have seen these online for between £20 and £40!!)
What a bargain!! I have no problem buying 2nd hand for Harry, as long as the condition is good and they get a wash and wipe over when we get them home, i think its fine :)
Now, what did i say a few post ago?? no more toys for harry for a while, well turns out a while was in fact 3 days in my mom&dads eyes!
They got him a bob the builder phone £1.50 and pencil case 50p
and this bargain:-
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Thomas the tank bubble machines, not only does it blow bubbles but it moves along the floor and plays the Thomas theme tune, when looking online at this, its still available for £59.99!!!! What did they pay? £1 how could they not buy it as they put it. So they're let of the hook, i agree, how could they walk away from that bargain!!
Harry's loving all his new 'shooooeess' and keeps trying them all on and hes especially loving his new Thomas and Bob toys.
I thought id just throw this into the mix too, its sort of cheating as it wasn't 2nd hand but it was a bargain from IKEA £9.99 reduced from £45!! perfect for our bedroom colour scheme (which has changed since my last post about it, its now black and greys and red!) so this fits perfectly!
Would you buy 2nd hand for your kids?
I'm linking this post up for the 1st time with meandmyshadow for here Magpie Monday linky (hope i did ok?)
Love Lucy x
Hi,
ReplyDeleteLove the bargains you got! Yes I would and have purchased things second hand for my son. As long as I can wash it or clean it then it's all good! Did a car boot myself recently and loved it!
Jules
thank you :) ive done a few in the past too, not in a while though, i should really do one soon as we have so much of harrys stuff that we dont use x
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ReplyDeleteWelcome to Magpie Monday!! Thanks so much for joining in.
I love that you've got your parents on the lookout for bargains for you too.
My daughter would kill for that Thomas. And it blows bubbles???!! She'd think that as heaven. x
aww thanks for having me hehe x
Deletehave wanted to join in for a long time, but never have anything to share with everyone x
yep, sings theme tune, moves along the floor and blows bubbles and toots! starting to realise why they sold it though, it gets VERY annoying and repetitive but harry loves it :) x
You're folks did great! Those shoes are a brilliant bargain. So many of Ethan's (and mine) shoes and clothes are second hand, I have no issues there! Xx
ReplyDeletehehe thank you! im proud of there bargain spotting skills. :) x
DeleteFab bargains! Kids shoes are always a good find. Love that lamp x
ReplyDeletethank you! i couldn't not have the lamp at the bargain price :) x
DeleteHooray! I love linking up to Magpie Monday so pleased you are joining in too! So many bargains at car boots, my poor boys hardly ever seem to get anything new!!! We have the Thomas bubble machine but I paid £1.50! Ha! xx
ReplyDeleteaww thank you, have wanted to join in for ages but nothing interesting to show :) aww harry is the same, mom and dad get loads from car-boots& charity shops for him but they haven't been in a few months because of poor weather so hope there back to there bargain hunting ways now lol x love a good bargain x
Deleteooo im starting to realise why they sold it, its very annoying isn't it keep playing the same tune lol x harry loves it though x x