Raid
your local car boot sale or charity shop for vintage frames, which you can spruce up with a lick of paint and fill with a personal touches such as a memorable photo or message.
I love
our local car boot sale on a Sunday morning — you get to chat to all the regulars, and we've made some good friends.
Not exact matches
This explains everything one need know about the basic motivations of the city: stuff comes in, the people who sell it come with it and
locals make money plying them with liquor and strippers and by
booting their
cars when they park badly.
I would sell at
local car -
boot sales and even made enough one time to buy a bright red pair of Doctor Martens that I had been wanting.
So your
car keys, a sibling's beloved stuffed dog, his dad's
boots, the slide at the
local playground — all these things are, in the eyes of an 18 - month - old, his.
Grab yourself a bargain - look at eBay, ads in the
local newspaper, or
car boot / yard sales.
The rest is spread very unevenly as follows: 25 % in second - hand and
car -
boot sale locations (Ravenbooks features here and I suspect in 2010 will feature even more) which is made up almost exclusively of out of print and pre-2000 books, the last 5 % or so gets spent fairly randomly everywhere from good independents, to
local shops with self published titles and random online direct purchases and ebooks (I'm still primary print and suspect I will always be so, despite a belief and passion for digital text).
They organise and attend
local events including fayres,
car boot sales, quiz and bingo nights, coffee mornings and much more...
If you're getting rid of unwanted tools, try selling them in the
local newspaper, at
car boots or try an online marketplace.
I look out for high - street bargains, and I've found some great - value second - hand stuff on eBay, at
car -
boot sales and in our
local recycling centre as well.
Check out
local car -
boot sales and eBay for affordable secondhand examples and paint in a contrasting colour to your units for added interest.
Bag yourself an old wooden crate by trawling your
local car -
boot sale, salvage yard or
local vintage shop.