Child of Brazil in ACTION - 1st Car boot sale

Child of Brazil in ACTION

1st Car boot sale

Rhyl (22.5 miles distant)

Saturday 13/09/2014

Seller fee: £6

Money raised: £95.40 (I didn't get any money from this to pay the seller fee or my petrol)

Getting up time at 4:45 am

Setting up time: 6:30 (I was still setting up the stall at 9:00 :) )

Leaving time: 13:00 (One of the last ones)

That was a fantastic day. I was so excited (and nervous) to do my first car boot sale in order to fundraise for our charity  group "Child of Brazil". As I parked and was getting ready to unpack there were some people already looking into the car and asking for any Lego and computer games. Well, unfortunately, I didn't have any. I set up my stall with Brazilian flags and bunting and a banner showing that all proceeds would go to charity in Brazil.

I took ages to set up everything because I wanted everything well organized and tidy in my stall. After having everything organized I thought about having a cup of coffee (I always take my flask with me as I don't want to ask my neighbours to keep an eye on my stall for me to buy a cup of coffee or to go to the toilet). As soon as I looked for my flask in the car I realised I forgot my packed lunch that I prepared early in the morning :( Never mind, I would not starve, I could wait until I got back home, I was more excited than hungry. Time passed really quickly and before I knew it, it was time to pack up but I still wanted to sell more, unfortunately the event was ending.

My excitement was because I thought all the time I was doing something to help raise some money for the poor children in Brazil but there is something I learned from this experience: people will always want your things for free, even if you say you are doing it for charity, oh they will, and that is really annoying.