Yard sale, flea market, garage sale, moving sale, rummage sale, tag sale, white elephant sale. All are synonyms for basically reselling treasures, valuables, stuff or junk to someone who is willing to part with their small change or bills.
In England they call them boot sales, or jumbles. And typically they seem to be on Sundays.
Suzanne and I chose to visit the two big ones in Cumbria; the nice one in Cockermouth is held in an auction barn for farm animals, the stalls being converted for selling stuff instead of holding a sheep or three. The other one was in a riding facility--it appeared to be a race course!
Why "boot sale"? The concept is that a family loads up their car truck, or boot as its called here, and goes to the designated spot and opens their boot!
We found a few nice things. I got some very fine fly tying line for model airplane radio antennas and a couple of walking sticks plus a nice desk lamp perfect for modeling. Suzanne found a nice figurine of a Jack Russell Terrier and some cups and saucers plus a few prints of pansies.
All very nice and we spent nearly nothing but had lots of fun. It was fun trying to understand the locals as we dickered, you know we don't sound like we come from around here, or "you came a long way!" was heard a lot.
Until next time...
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