Do you attend car boot sales?

I thought you ladies were talking about a Tire Boot.
I would like to put one on a car parked in the street instead of their driveway.
 

fuzzybuddy said:
I think you have to translate "boot sale" into American. It might be "a car trunk sale". Also, in the US, when someone sells items "from the trunk"; it usually means stolen goods rather than used stuff. I've never heard of a Boot/trunk sale, like in the U.K.
We have to have tables, and tents.
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Same here. I would never buy anything someone was selling from the trunk of their car or the back of their truck
 

hollydolly said:
where do you live Tom ?:)
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We are in The Villages, Florida. We have many outdoor "flea markets" in the area but the turnout is much larger in the winter months. Weather is beautiful and there are many more people here snowbirding in the winter months.

There is one venue that claims 800 vendors but most of these are full time flea marketers or crafters. Just like your pictures the venues are so large you just can't get around to see all of it. Not that many are people that just load up a bunch of stuff they have laying around that they just want to get rid of. What is popular here is to have neighborhood garage sales where a cheap ad in the local paper, advertising a multi house garage sale all in one neighborhood, does bring out a huge number of attendees.

They also have a venue called "Cars & Guitars" that is held very similar to an outdoor flea market. I would like to attend someday as I like cars and have a few guitars I would like to sell.

I love to go to these flea markets and even better I have a friend who likes to go as well. Once in a while we really find a deal on "good stuff". “Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get.”
 
Boot sales are something I've experienced in Scotland, and in the greater-Vancouver area where they're called 'flea markets' and held in parking lots. Today we attended a rural yard sale, which is the way thongs are done our immediate area. This one was, in part, an estate sale for the possesions of a mechanic who recently died in his 90s.

I'm not a big acquirer, though in my 20s and early 30s I did obtain many useful things this way. Today I bought numerous lengths of steel rod (I use those for making and repairing things for myself or friends). Also a welding mask that is better than the one I've had. also some threaded redi-rod. And an 8x10 picture frame.
 
mrstime said:
Sorry I didn't explain that well. One goes to peoples houses yards or garages. A yard sale is larger than an individual car boot sale. DH and I no longer can go to yard sales but our son goes, so during the week as the sales are listed on Facebook I write them in a notebook, come Friday afternoon DH numbers them and I rewrite them for Saturday. Son uses the car to get to them. Sometimes they can be very far flung or if lucky only a few kilometers away from the others. Have to have a good map of the town and surrounding communities.
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Some villages have annual garage sales. I bought some craft books from one seller, the books were as new and cost, I think, about ÂŁ1 each.

I used to like car boots and you could get some bargains but, it's a long time since I have been to one so, no idea whether they are still as good.

I still like going to flea markets, they are interesting places and you can find everything from craft stuff to vintage clothing. They tend to be more expensive than car boots though.
 
JBR said:
Boot sales are something I've experienced in Scotland, and in the greater-Vancouver area where they're called 'flea markets' and held in parking lots. Today we attended a rural yard sale, which is the way thongs are done our immediate area. This one was, in part, an estate sale for the possesions of a mechanic who recently died in his 90s.

I'm not a big acquirer, though in my 20s and early 30s I did obtain many useful things this way. Today I bought numerous lengths of steel rod (I use those for making and repairing things for myself or friends). Also a welding mask that is better than the one I've had. also some threaded redi-rod. And an 8x10 picture frame.
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What sort of welding do you do ? Stick, tig, or mig? JIM.
 
GoneFishin said:
Same here. I would never buy anything someone was selling from the trunk of their car or the back of their truck
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Then you wouldn't have liked the live Nova Scotia lobsters I used to sell at the 400 highway flea market. Flown up on the first Air Canada flight from Halifax, arriving at 8am. My slogan was "They were swimming this morning. " JIM.
 
The boot sale Holly showed in her post (#19) is similar to the larger ones that have taken place in the Vancouver area. Vancouver just picked up the label "flea market". At the far end of the spectrum compared with how 2nd-hand items are sold in most of the regions away from the British Columbia coast.

When DW and I were in Paris, we strolled through the original flea market (marché aux puces) in Paris and bought a few inexpensive things. It was large & sprawling, even though we were there in the tourism off-season. But automobiles were few, actually so much to that I don't remember any.
 
jimintoronto said:
What sort of welding do you do ? Stick, tig, or mig? JIM.
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I first learned puddle control with oxygen-acetylene, then learned MIG. I've got equipment for both, though I use O/A just for metal forming & brazing.

TIG can produce welds that are actually beautiful. My next neighbor and good friend has a buzz box and will teach me to use that when we can mutually find time.

How about you, Jim?
 
We don't have boot sales in Arizona. Garage sales, yard sales, flea markets. And the sale by the side of the road, goods on a table: honey, kettlecorn, etc. Since covid we have been overrun by "Food Trucks"; they even go from neighborhood to neighborhood these days. Is getting to the point of obnoxious. We always called "Food Trucks" = "Roach Coaches" for obvious reasons in Arizona: the heat here makes it unlikely the food is kept at correct temperatures, therefore one is asking to get food poisoning; and the greasy food they serve.
 
JBR said:
I first learned puddle control with oxygen-acetylene, then learned MIG. I've got equipment for both, though I use O/A just for metal forming & brazing.

TIG can produce welds that are actually beautiful. My next neighbor and good friend has a buzz box and will teach me to use that when we can mutually find time.

How about you, Jim?
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When I was racing oval track cars, I had long time friend who was a member of the Boilermaker's union, do all my welding for me. I once had a bad experience with arc flash. Gary was welding a new tow hitch on my GMC pickup truck. I was not looking at the arc, but it was reflecting off the glass of the canopy, at me.

I woke up in the middle of the night with terrible pain in my eyes. I had to call a local taxi to come and pick me up, to go to the local hospital's emergency department. I couldn't see anything at all. The Doctor put some type of drops in my eyes, which immediately reduced the pain, and over a few hours, my eyesight slowly returned. That was painful and scary, too. I still have "floaters " in both of my eyes from that arc flash experience. JIM
 

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