Thursday's charity shop visit

Not much to report today apart from a Mega Drive 1 user manual for 50p from Scope. The NES in Banardo's has been sold.

Sunday 25th June Boot Sale

I went to my Local Boot Sale which starts at around 8 am in a farmers field and it is quite a big boot sale with around 200 - 250 cars in 2 fields. Not much there this time, but did find the following bargains for £8 total:

Bootsale bargains from Sunday 25th June 2006

Bootsale bargains from Sunday 25th June 2006
Originally uploaded by blackadderhall.

Here are today's bootsale bargains all from one local sale. We got there about 6:45 and people were still setting up. Managed to bag a few beauties and left some real tat behind. We spent in total £14.

Take a look at the individual images for prices and descriptions.

Today's charity shop trawl

NES being suffocated in a plastic bag
Originally uploaded by blackadderhall.

Today’s trawl through the charity shops was a bit of a disappointment.
SCOPE had a single copy of Chase H.Q for the Master System (price unknown)
Oxfam had half a dozen PS1 games for £2.99 each (just the usual driving/footy games)
Cancer Research had bugger all
Banardo’s had the best retro item; an unboxed NES with 2 controllers, light gun, and 3 games (Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt and New Zealand Story). This was being suffocated in a plastic bag at the bottom of a shelf. They wanted £15 for it. I preferred a cheese and pickle sarnie from Benjy’s so I didn’t buy it.

Oh well, the weekend is nearly upon us and it can mean only 1 thing… BOOTSALES!!

May Barginius the Goddess of Bootsales smile on you.

First post - SNES bargains

Hi,
I thought I'd kick off this blog with some SNES bargains I purchased this very lunchtime. While on my lunchbreak I like to have a quick browse around the local charity shops as they often have the odd game or two. Recently I picked up Splatterhouse 2 for the Mega Drive for £1 at one shop.

Today was a good day as the local Cancer Research had a stack of SNES games all individually priced between 50p and £2. The manageress offered the lot to me for £12 - WOW!! I thought. Unfortunately, I'd just spent all my spare cash on lunch so a trip to the bank was needed. I rushed back hoping they were still there, and they were. So I got the following items for £12.

Boxed with Instructions
Super Mario Kart
Street Racer
Star Wing
Stunt Race FX
WWF Royal Rumble

Unboxed:
Super Mario World
Street Fighter II (US)
Super StarWars (US)

US/UK SNES Adapter

I've uploaded more pics of them here. I apologise for the quality of the pics, they were taken with my camera phone.