Searching For My Retro Buys

My idea of a good morning out is when we go off searching for my retro bits and pieces. I do buy on ebay but not very often as it is much more expensive than car boot sales. You have to have perseverance at car boot sales but it's such fun standing at the entrance to a large field on a Sunday morning looking at cars in the distance never knowing what you may find. Even if I don't find anything nice, the thrill is in the search for me and I have found some wonderful treasures over the years. 

My big love though is Jumble Sales. It's something about the wait outside and the doors opening and that feeling you have a limited time to find the bargains and in my case constantly trying not to be rude and pushy as it was drummed in to me as a child to always be polite! I've lost count of the amount of times I apologise when people push into me. The thing with Jumble Sales is £5 and you feel like a millionaire, who needs to be a lottery winner!

Local Jumble Sale

  I can pinpoint the moment my love of jumble sales started. I was five years old at school and our teacher told us tomorrow there would be a Bring and Buy Sale that we could attend at the end of the day and we could look round before the parents came to pick us up. I had no idea what a Bring and Buy Sale was but it sounded exciting. The next day my Mum gave me a three penny bit to put in my little school purse and off I went. I can still remember how I felt as I looked around the tables of goods that day. I couldn't believe I could possibly afford any of these beautiful items with just threepence and was too scared to speak. One kindly Mum who was serving asked me if there was anything I liked and I chose a little bead purse. She asked me how much money I had and when I told her threepence she said that was just how much it was. I was overjoyed.

Women At A 1960s Jumble Sale

I can remember clearly skipping all the way home with my Mum regaling the wonders of Bring and Buy Sales to her. When I got home I ran upstairs to examine my wonderful purchase. Inside the purse there was a little zip pocket. I unzipped it and inside was a shiny sixpence. I couldn't believe it a beautiful purse and a profit as well. That was it, I was hooked and still am.  

Strangely for me I haven't kept the little bead purse but I still have the school purse I took the three pence to school in. 

1960s School Purse