NCT Nearly New Sale Madness

Oh my gosh I can't feel my legs after helping out at the NCT nearly new sale yesterday. What a fun day! I arrived at 8.15 to find an event run by military precision. I was very impressed! As a non member I had to pay £3 which I think was very reasonable and was given a limit of 50 items to sell (if you are a memeber you are allowed unlimited items!!). The day before I was given 50 labels to price everything up! phew that was a task and a half! I was up until midnight doing that. As an avid charity shop bargain hunter and car boot sale lover it was very hard indeed to know how much to price stuff at! I had been told that large toys can go from anything up to £20 but for me, who is used to buying things at £2.50 at charity shops that was a hard task! but I got there in the end!! The other hard part was managing to take JUST 50 items!! My house is beginning to look like a nursery these days with the amount of toys we own! (this didnt however stop me from buying at the sale!!)
anyway once I had lugged my million boxes out of the car and into the sale, then came the mamouth task of sorting through everyone elses stuff. Now bearing in mind 80 non members had 50 items each and about 40 members had 150 items, that's a LOT of stuff!! The clothes tables were piled high!! and the toys were buried under hundreds of other toys!
I was selling a high chair and there were 5 others priced much lower than mine so I wasnt very hopeful that it would sell! That is the only critcism I have of the sale in that you couldnt change the prices, as some of my stuff I would rather have sold than brought back home as it was priced too high!
anyway after sorting the mountains of stuff we got given half an hour to have a look round and buy stuff before the sale started! this bit I have to say was the most fun part of the day! There was so much stuff but no rush to look through it, just a leisurely browse! I recommend volunteering to help if only for this reason!
Well I was very impressed with myself too as I only spent £16.50!!! I think I bagged some bargains too. I picked up this little wooden fort for £3.50, Joshua loves it!

I also picked up a Leap frog leap pad, complete with 5 books!!! including Joshua's favourite Thomas!! for £5. Very reasonable I say!

Anyway after the doors opened at 10.30 I was on the till for the whole time of the sale. It was brilliant fun! Met some lovely mums, and some expectant mums! Hop I will see some of you at my baby massage classes as my flyers were in the goodie bags.
Anyway once the sale was over we had the mamouth task of sorting everything ba#g out again into bags to give back to the sellers! I have to say it was very deflating seeing some of my stuff come back. I really had hoped to sell more than I did but I did sell my high chair and a few other high priced items so I came home with a nice amount of money!
I highly recommend going to one of these events as the quality of the stuff was very good and a lot of it was very reasonably priced.  The next one is on the 17th November where I suspect I will be again! (it might take me that long to get over it and be able to feel my legs again!)
watch this space!
I'm off to sleep now!

lots of love
Ellie xxxx