Welcome to carbootsRus
This site lists 1000s of different car boot locations around the UK plus many more car boot sales world-wide.
Click on interactive map opposite to find a local car boot sale.
Many have a link to a map to show the exact location of the carboot.
I can no longer offer this as a completely free service for carbooters.
Access to most pages on this site will be by subscription only very soon.
Subscription will be only £7, lasting until end of 2009.
To subscribe: please click here
Ireland, including NI, Abroad, Scotland, IoM and CIs will remain free for the time being, though registration will be needed.
Please continue to email me details of one new car boot sale from your local paper.
Support the site - please use the advertisers.
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I will be offering a subscription service which covers all areas. Some areas, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Abroad, Channel Islands and Isle of Man will remain open access for the time being.
The layout of the pages will remain the same. This comes fully in to effect from end of September.
Please note: I only have time to answer queries about car boots from members.
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So, please check with the organisers before setting out.
Closures. If you find a car boot has closed, or a phone number has changed, please let me know by
email.
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Latest additions / updates include:
Please use the RSS feed for information about updates or the monitor to email you when this page is updated
And, please keep on
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with details so that I can include them / contact the organisers.
Markets are being threatened with closure.
Local Authorities are quoting 600 year old Royal Charters which 'give them authority to ban markets within a day's donkey ride of another.' None actually seem able to produce copies of these charters in today's English.
They claim this distance is equivalent to about 6.25 miles and are measuring as the crow flies. In one case Tyneside Council has to decide whether to allow a market to be set up within a donkey's ride of the market in South Shields. The distance as the donkey rides is nearer 14 miles.
Anecdotal evidence is more markets are better for the areas.
What do you think?
Contribute to a discussion on the MESSAGE BOARD.
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Warning XP Service Pack 3 is bad for your health!!
Unfortunately, Service Pack 3 seems to make some PCs unhappy... VERY unhappy.
After you install SP3, your PC reboots itself repeatedly without consulting you... or simply crashes.
Now, this, apparently, is only SOME PCs, not all. And your PC may well be one of the ones on which SP3 installs and works just fine.
I've installed SP3 on one of my PCs, and it is very, VERY unhappy - and so am I!!
So, I'd advise you NOT to install SP3 until the dust settles and Microsoft clears up whatever's causing the problem.
So if XP's Automatic Updates feature offers you SP3, say no for the time being... just in case.
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Increase Numbers of Car Boot Days
At the moment only 14 car boot sales a year can be held on any field in Green Belt land. The organisers of
"Warrington's Favourite Car Boot"
are petitioning to allow them for 28 days. They state "We go on about recycling, please tell me what is more efficient than recycling your unwanted items than burying that in land fill sites. A good day out for people and if run properly, a safe and clean way of raising extra cash and emptying your garage."
To support their petition, click here
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New Year's Resolution: please resolve to check in your local paper and email me updated information about one car boot every week. Please don't forget to say which county / area it's in.
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National Flood Helpline. Visit their
website rather than phoning - there's no geographical number to call.
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Popups. I've added a type of popup to the home page. It should not re-popup for about a week - if you've got cookies
enabled.
show popup
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Netscape Navigator browser - Support for NN will cease after 1 February 2008. The Netscape team recommend trying Mozilla Firefox.
Click here for details.
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Child Benefit Data Scandal Not only are the 25 million pieces of information lost we have to pay to phone the helpline. If you use saynoto0870.co.uk you will find an alternative number you can use which will be free if you have 'geographical' free minutes. It's 0191 2251144. Good luck.
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Chocolate recipe of the week
I've been sent some webpages for chocolate based recipes so I'll try to publish them over the next 15/20 weeks. Haven't tried them myself as am allergic to chocolate! Hope they are ok. Email me to publish more.
- Weather Forecast every morning http://www.weatherwherever.com/
will send you, by email, a free 5 day weather forecast for your area every day. Sign up
here
- Amazon
has amazing offers on all electronic goods.
- Argos normally has a great selection of reductions. Why not
reserve your items
through this site? It cost no more for you and will help keep this site going.
Either click on one of the Argos ads or, put an icon on your desktop.
Click here
to find out how.
Better still, reserve and pay for it after clicking through carbootsRus!
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Used SAYNOTO0870.com today to renew my Privilege Insurance premium. They also offer a 25% discount on AA membership.
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Transfer tapes to MP3 free.
My birthday present, back in August, was an MP3 player from Amazon. It came with trial software letting me rip all my tapes to computer in WAV but only encode 20 to MP3. I've exhausted the 20 so I searched for a freebie and found a fully functional free one at Audacity
. (Most are just trials or only copy 75% of your file!). At this rate, I'll need to get myself a bigger MP3 player!
MadSally
has full details of how to transfer it all (again free!). To transfer you need a tape player, preferably mains, with a headphone socket (from a car boot sale) and a line-in on the computer + a 3.5mm stereo jack-to-jack lead. Good luck.
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Buying a new computer? $15 off.
I've just transferred all my programs and files from my old one in 20 minutes using PCmover on my home network. I didn't have to find all those old cds to reinstall everything! 'PCmover is the easiest way to move all your programs, files, and settings to a new PC.' Code CJPH7Q for $15 off.
 I don't recommend using the 'Easy Transfer' cable for Vista.
The best options are either to set-up a peer2peer network using a cross-over cable or use the PCmover USB2 cable, if you have USB2 on your old machine.
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Windows pirates get IE7 amnesty.
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Make Premium Rate calls for free.
Save up to 40p / minute. Where companies list only 0870, 0871, 0844 and 0845 numbers which are not free, even on your mobile with its 'free' minutes SAYNOTO0870.com lists alternative landline or freephone numbers. It's free to use.
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Telephone queues
- Don't tear your hair out being held in a telephone queue. Next time an electronic voice tells you to press 5 so that you can press 7 and then press 2 - don't! Just don't press anything. Wait it out. Apparently, 80% of the time you'll actually get through to a person or be put on call back, which means... less waiting!
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Bienvenue, St Germaine-sur-Vienne
Three bedroom, charming self catering fermette, 10km from Chinon. Perfect, quiet location for Loire Valley holidays and house-hunters. Ideal for cyclists / walkers. Sleeps 5. £230 to £295 pw
Tel : 01732 761442 (evgs)
French gite - Pays de Loire |
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The Barn, Hepple, Northumberland
Three bedroom, self-catering, sensitively converted barn with adjacent 14th-cent Pele Tower. Perfect, quiet location for Borders holidays and house-hunters. Ideal for cyclists / walkers.
Sleeps 6. £316 to £418 pw
Tel : 0870 197 5853 (quote ref 4166)
Holiday cottage - Coquet Valley |
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Llangrannog Cottage near Cardigan
Beautiful and characterful cottage only 5 minutes walk from Llangrannog's (blue flag) sandy beach with its 2 cafes, pubs and local shop. The patio, ideal for BBQs, overlooks a stream.
Sleeps 5. £170 to £260 pw
Tel : 07769567671
Holiday Cottage - Wales |
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Car
Boot Sales: facts & figures
Each year 1.5 billion pounds
are spent at Car Boot Sales in the UK.
One million people visit Car Boot Sales every weekend during the season.
Average spend £9.61 per visit.
Most profitable boots London (£83), Wales (£80) per boot full |
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The UK has
'Car Boot Sales', what do others have?:
- France -
Brocante
/ vide-grenier (empty your attic) / Troc et Puces
(exchanges)
- Australia - Swap
Meet
- USA - Garage Sale
- Wales - Arwerthiant
/ Sêl Cist Ceir
- Ibiza - rastrillo
- Netherlands - kofferbakmarkt(trunk barge = barge-boot)
- Italy - 'sofitte in piazza'(= cash in the attic) also 'mercato delle pulci' = flea market; 'mercato dell'usato' = car boot
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Tips for buying / selling:
Buying:
- get up early!
- always bargain
- check all the boxes
- check for damage
- beware of electrical items unless seen working
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A4 printable weekly family calendar.
Template has 6 columns but easily adaptable to more or fewer.
Can be made for any number of weeks.
Dates, months, years automatically inserted.
In Excel.
Free download
here.
Save to file then open from file otherwise column widths and row heights are lost!
Download CCleaner from FileHippo.com
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Selling
- Take plenty of change and plastic bags
- Use a bum-bag to keep money safe
- take warm clothing
- clearly display your items - make book and video titles easily seen
- put a tablecloth / sheet on your table
- price up the bigger items beforehand
- take some stationery: pens, pencils & stickers
- be honest, helpful and remain polite
- on arrival, walk round for 10 mins, then set up your pitch, otherwise you will be overwhelmed.
- selling for a charity? If so consider using the GiftAid form to donate your takings - this may increase the amount by 28%
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What are RSS Feeds?
RSS feeds allow you to see when websites have added new content. You can get the latest headlines and stories in one place, as soon as they are published, without having to visit the websites you have taken the feed from.
How do I start using feeds?
In general, the first thing you need is something called a feed reader. This is a piece of software that checks the feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of which are downloadable applications. IE 7.0 has a good feed reader built in, otherwise try
Feedreader
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Parking - several organisers have been warned by the police that their car boot may be in jeopardy if customers park on the verges outside or the drivers may be ticketted for obstruction. So, please park inside the grounds.
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