Track10_8

Track 10 .8

Shop till you drop

Thank you very much for this beautiful day Grace. It has been wonderful

You're welcome

You know how much I love shopping. I am always up for a good shopping day

Have you heard that there is a car boot sale at the central car park tomorrow?

Car boot sale I've never heard of that. Are they selling cars?

I'm just kidding. Really? What is it? It's a British thing, you know people sell items from a car's boat

Okay, tell me what we can buy

These are generally unwanted or used items, but who knows you may find something you want

Let's try then. It'll be a different experience for me

Do you want to go to a yard sale to you know spring is on the way and people have started their spring cleaning

They want to get rid of some extra items in their houses and yard sales give them the best opportunity to do so

Yeah, I had one last year. We sometimes call it garage sale or moving sale

One of the things I like to do on weekends is to go to garage sales

I'm a bargain hunter. So garage sales are good places for me, but let me tell you one important thing about yard sales

What is it? You have to be an early bird

You need to get to the sales before other people to get the best items

It's true that there is a lot of junk at garage sales

But one person's trash is another one's treasure. So we are going tomorrow

Yes, of course and after that we can go to a thrift shop

You know they work for charity purposes

They sell mainly second -hand donated goods the prices are really low in

The United States shopping at a charity store has become popular enough to earn a slang term

Thrifting in this way we can help the poor as well

After the thrift shop we can go visit the new shopping mall if we have enough time and enough money to

More about car boot sales and garage sales

Car boot sales or boot fairs are a form of market where people come together to sell household or garden goods

They are popular events in the United Kingdom

The term car boot sale refers to the selling of items from a car's boot

Which is the vehicle's main storage?

Car boot sales are a method of attracting people in one place to recycle useful, but unwanted items

They generally take place in the summer months and on Sundays

However indoor boot sales are becoming popular in some parts of the United Kingdom

Car boot sales are held in different locations such as school grounds grass fields or car parks

Sellers arrive with their goods and unpack the items on two tables blankets or the ground

In the 2000s various car boot sale websites were established

The American version of car boot sales is garage sales in the American version the venue is typically a garage

Popular motivations for a garage sale are spring cleaning moving or earning extra money

In some areas garage sales have a special meaning to the community

So numerous families are involved in the sale at the same time

For example the highway 127 corridor sale known as the world's longest yard sale

Encourages people to conduct yard sales at the same time along a 630 mile

One thousand ten kilometer corridor

The route travels through six states Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama