Today was the Second From Last Car Boot October 2024. Where I live in Hertfordshire the car boot finishes next week. Whether this will be the last one actually I don’t really know but I picked up quite a lot so thought I’d share a blog post with a big list of all the bits I bought.
So, actually it wont just be the stuff I bought from this last car boot I’m going to share with you in this post. Also I got a few bits from the charity shops and Vinted which I will also share.
I was Initially just keeping a list to help with getting things under control a bit better but I thought some people I know (and other I don’t MAYBE) might want to see what I’ve bought to resell.
I think this is quite a haul so here we go. Here is my haul from the…
Second From Last Car Boot October 2024
This will be my 2nd post like this I’ve put on this website (read my last post here) – in my last post I shared photos for most of what I got but this post I wont be sharing pictures to that extent. I was thinking I will just share my list of pick ups and I will write a bit about what I got below. Hoping to get this post published a lot quicker so – now here is what I got;
- Bundle of Private Eye Magazines = £10
- Genie Plush Aladdin = £2
- Genie Aladdin Build a Bear = £2.50
- Kinder Racoon = £0.50
- Other Build a Bear = £1.00
– Horse in Sports Gear I think this is an older one - Horse and minnie mouse = £0.50
- Douglas Adams Audio Books £10
– Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Primary Phase CD Set x 2
– Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Primary Phase Special Edition CD Set
– Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Tertiary Phase CD Set x 3
– Mostly Harmless CD Set x 2
– The Universe and Everything CD Set
– HHGTTG BBC Radio Collection Tape Set
– HHGTTG ZBBC 1035 Tape Set
– HHGTTG TORA 42 Tape Set - Graphic Novels & Books £19
– Charlaine Harris Bundle
– Abbi Glines Bundle
– Bad Blood Bundle
– Matt Merton Mysteries Bundle
– Dangerous Games Bundle - Superman Graphic Novels £7.00
– Death of Superman
– Last Son of Krypton
– Brainiac
– Man of Steel - Reebok Trainers £4.00
- Holographic Universe Book 0.50
- Router £1
- Wii Cable £2.50
- 3 x Jethro VHS £1
- 2 x Mountain Bike Mountain Bike Mania + Mud Cows 2 VHS £3
- Hymns and Psalms = £1.00
- Kipper Plush £0.50
- Enid Blyton Book Bundle x 9 – £4.50
– The Lone Ranger and The Mystery Ranch 1938 with Dust Jacket (RARE)
– Brer Rabbits A Rascal
– The Mystery That Never Was
– Adventure Stories
– Good Old Secret Seven
– The Rilloby Fair Mystery
– Robin Hood Book
– The Rockingdown Mystery
– The Enid Blyton Storybook - Find Your Fate #8: Indiana Jones and the Dragon of Vengeance £1.00
- Star Wars Return Of The Jedi The Ewoks Save The Day Pop Up Book £1.00
- Encyclopaedia of the Worlds of Doctor Who: E-K (Knight Books) By David Saunders £1.00
- Doctor Who Book – It’s Bigger on the Inside by Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett £0.50
- The Okay Adventure Annual 1955 Excellent Condition £.050
- Silver Age DC Comics UK Batman Annual 1968 Rare Hardcover £0.50
- Fantastic Adventures Vol.13 No.8 August 1951 (Excalibur and the Atom) £1.00
- Watch Men Graphic Novel £1
- Green Lantern: SINESTRO CORPS WAR (DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection – 2016) £2
- Dark Void xbox 2£
- Devil May Cry HD Collection XBox £2
- Grogu Baby Yoda Eating Frog £2
- Disney Pick Your Poison 3XL T Shirt £5
- £1 Book Bundle Annuals
– More Engine Stories W.H Smith Thomas The Tank Engine
– Arthur Conan Doyle – the Lost World
– The Story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears Read along with me
– The Gingerbread Man Read Along With Me - Travel Monopoly £1.50
- Book Bundle x 4 £1.50 Cassandra Clare + Terry Pratchett
- Book Bundle x 3 x £1 Phillipa Gregory Harry Potter
- 2 x Scrabble Deluxe £20
- 1 x Moomin Plush £50
- 1 x Cruella De Ville Plush £2.50
- 1 x Stuart Little Plush £2.50
- Fur Real Dragon
- Raya and The Last Dragon Monkeys
- Shana Large Cat Top Jumper
- Build A Bear Bundle
- Deagostini Elvis DVD Set £12.95
How It All Went Down
I will begin with yesterday. I finished my eBay orders (pretty much) about 3pm and I just got to the charity shops as they was about to close. I didn’t pick up much really – I got the 2 Xbox 360 Games. Devil May Cry HD Collection and Dark Void. The Devil May Cry game is a good one I’m pretty sure as it is the first 3 games on 1 disc with extras. I think I may be able to get £10 back for DMC but really I think I’d like to keep this.
My next 2 finds were the 3XL Disney Pick Your Poison T-Shirt and the Star Wars Grogu Plush. The T-Shirt I am estimating £20-25 on back from £5 and Grogu only £8 but my logic was the profit would pay for the T-Shirt.
What I Found At The Car Boot
I got up this morning at 7AM – the annoying this was that I plugged my phone in but I didn’t switch the power on so I had to wait to charge my phone. It was about quarter to 8 when I left and I got to the car boot probably about 8:30 AM. I didn’t actually check and I was worried that I’d left it too late but I bought loads.
In my last post I said about the man who always has loads of cool sci-fi bits for sale who always does me great deals. He was back there today and I spent just over half my £70 I brought with me on his stall.
Firstly, I spent £10 on a bundle of Douglas Adams Audio Books both on tape and CD. I should have 4 different lots here and he also threw in 2 x Tin Tin Tape sets. I already have this set but I can now Increase my quantity to 3 – I will buy most Tin Tin bits I see so glad I could get these.
After that there was loads more stuff I wanted. He had loads of DC Graphic Novels but he wanted £2 each so was a bit hesitant as I hadn’t looked round the car boot yet. I bought a few (5 including the Green lantern book) before I left but my 2nd buy was a bundle of Charlaine Harris and Abbi Glines Paperbacks, and 2 lots of Graphic Novels (Matt Merton Mysteries & Dangerous Games).
I wanted to buy more from him he still had more bundles of books I would have bought. I’d probably give him a lot more money as he had a lot of 2000AD comics too. In the end I did buy another 6 books (Bad Blood) for £2 just before I left to get in my taxi.
It was actually really a shame because I was going to buy a bundle of Robert Jordan Wheel of Time Hardbacks from another seller (just before) I was pretty happy when they said 50p each BUT as I started picking them up they were all wet so I had to leave them, and as I still had this money I spent it with my friend.
What Else I Found
There was a few other stalls I got books from – I got the Fantastic Adventures book & a Watchmen Graphic Novel for £2, then on another stall I got a Shakespeare Puffin Paperback (currently I am collecting) and I also got The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot as a paperback. Probably will read this before I put on eBay very Interesting (about the nature of reality) and the rest of the books I got were from another stall.
These are mostly all Enid Blyton books with dust wrappers from 1970s. I’ve done alright with these in the past so I pick these up fairly often If I see them. I think as long as price is right these are worth getting but it wasn’t just these. This stall had some young boy on it and I just kept buying more. The best find was a 1968 Batman (Adam West) Annual and an Indiana Jones book which should make me some good money.
The Private Magazines were another pretty amazing find. A pain in the neck all the space they are currently taken up – I was hesitant for this reason but I see a lot of these had sold on eBay for £130 so for £10 I felt like I absolutely had to buy these.
Then I got a WiFi Router for £1 (something else I usually look for). Plus, as well that I got pair of Reebok trainers for £4 (bit of a gamble). And I got 5 plush – not sure if any real big hitters but hopefully I can get £8-10 back off each of them. The Build a Bear Horse I can sell the football kit he is wearing and maybe he can go separate – this is a good thing to know BAB clothes can a lot of the time be worth more than the plush.
So just a few VHS apart from that, an AV cable for a Wii and oh yeah – another Bible for £1 that I’m hoping to sell for £15. I love selling bibles because so often they are cheap.
Other Pick Ups
After I got back from the Car Boot there was something I see advertised locally that I thought might be worth checking out. It was NOT lol
I think I thought this would be more like a sale but it was to help people – everything was free with the option to make a donation. There wasn’t really anything I wanted here and I really felt there was no reason for me to be there – I spotted a book shelf with some books I wouldn’t have minded checking out but I don’t know if they was actually for sale as they had a chair in front – I think maybe these are at other times or they are for people to borrow maybe.
So I was thinking about going home after this but I decided as I was only 10 minutes away from the town that I would take a walk down and check out the charity shops AGAIN (less than 24 hours later) and to my surprise on the way there I found another church holding a monthly thing ACTUALLY a SALE this time.
Although, It was pretty disappointing. Only one stall – however, its on once a month apparently same as the Community Church at St. Pauls. It was only books but I managed to find 3 to buy for £1. They had some key stage reading books too I was thinking about buying – I think maybe they could have been good for resale but I really was not feeling it so i did not even ask about them.
I may go next time to see if it’s a bit better but anyway – so I left there and in my 2nd Charity Shop I picked up a 1997 Travel monopoly set for £1.50. No brainer really but like all board games that are not sealed always a chance bits will be missing but it was a nice find – its all in there and I should get about £10-12 back from my initial £1.50 investment.
Then After That…
At the next charity shop I bought 3 books – 2 Philippa Gregory (to add to my bundle already for sale) and 1 Harry potter. I am kind of stock piling Harry Potter books at the moment. Not sure what I will do with them but wont be going on any bonfires lol – I see J.K Rowling’s Tweet recently about not caring if people burn her books as she still get’s paid for them lol – I think she is great.
But enough about that at the same charity shop MAYBE my best find of the day – I got not one but TWO Scrabble Deluxe Edition Brand Crossword SEALED for £10 a piece. Here are some recent sold’s on eBay.
I was tempted to see if there were anymore. It was just like I had hit the Jackpot lol I found one – I was going to buy it thinking it was pre owned then I realised it was new and then I found another. It actually give me butterflies in my stomach – that I’d actually got something proper decent – what a find.
And this was not everything I bought.
Other Charity Shop Bits and Vinted
I got 3 more bits after this – a Moomin Plush, Cruella De Vil Plush and a Stuart Little Plush. I also got 4 more books -3 Cassandra Clare (to go with a bundle I got) and 1 Terry Pratchett Discworld (building another bundle here to). I think I said YES out loud when I see it lol as its the first book and I got like the next 8 or something. Anyway…
The Moomin Plush was £1.50 that should get me over £10 hopefully, and same with the other two plush. I paid £5 for Cruella and Stuart Little – it is a bit expensive in this charity shop I usually give it a miss – I think maybe I was lucky because Stuart Little wasn’t priced so I offered to buy both him and Cruella for £5.
My Vinted Pick Ups
I’ve been pretty active on Vinted the past week. It’s a problem really I think. I’ve found some gems on here in the past and one I got was a Fur Real Dragon I paid £7 for. I got this because I also have a Fur Real Panda that has just been sitting round untested because I have no batteries (it takes 3 x C Batteries) It’s about £5-6 to buy new – so I needed to test the panda (it doesn’t work – talks but doesn’t move) so I bought this Dragon which works very well and I should get £20 plus for it.
With this I got a BNWT woman’s top – Ithis looked like another good flip so I thought OK yeah why not – so that was my thinking as I am trying to get into selling clothes more – it is money on the table I think so…
Then I paid £23 for a bundle of Build a Bear not picked up yet. I know the Grinch should make me a nice chunk of my money back with this – especially since Xmas is not long away. I also got the 3 monkeys from Raya and the Last Dragon (to help sell my other plush bundle) and a lot of 8 Brian Lumley Paperbacks (again I have others to go with).
*One other thing I got was a set of Deagostini Elvis DVDs I’ve done well with these in the past and I will always snap them up if I see them.
In Conclusion
Yep so some nice finds. I think maybe the Private Eye Magazine bundle and the Scrabble will hopefully be what makes me my money. I’ve not really listed anything yet apart from the Scrabble – this blog post is the calm before the storm lol I better get to it and if there is anything you would like to know about – leave me a comment below – I need to update my contact details on here STILL or Whatts App me is good +44 7719426276 – Please no spam. Many Thanks for reading Alex (Alxddin)
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