Last Saturdays car-boot sale was even bigger than usual but so many people are now selling regularly every week there isn't much of interest as it's all been there before. Do they actually sell enough to cover their pitch fee?
Anyway, this time I did buy something as I found a frame for the card from the Art Exhibition - actually I found two, the first one cost me 50p but a bit later I found something better and that one cost me £1.50. I'll take a photo when I've sorted it out and it's up on the wall.
Then in among one of the House Clearance seller's boxes (the people from Norfolk who don't give anything away for nothing - where I got the 6 year old coffee and the mini cafetière ) I found this.
Holds a big bag of flour and will keep the cupboard cleaner (has anyone ever found a way of opening and using a bag of flour without it always going everywhere when it gets in all the folds of the paper bag) The lady wouldn't take £1 or £1.50 - so it had to be £2.
I reckon the chances of finding a similar big tin like this for plain flour are about 1 in a million!
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Sue
I have a tin just like that! I bought it years ago, from McDougalls. I think it was coupons cut from 3 bread wrappers plus £2. I still use it for my SR flour (but I use supermarket own brand flour as it is cheaper) It keeps the flour fresh and the cupboard free from flour-dust. Excellent find Sue.
ReplyDeleteI dread to think how much McDougalls flour is now - own brand is all I use too
DeleteAlmost 3x price of own brand!! More than you paid for the tin!!
DeleteGood find but don't get me started on house clearance. I was quoted £1,000 for the job AND they get to sell everything and the homeowner gets nothing. I'd rather give it all to charity shops. I have several Homepride Fred the Flour Grader kitchenalia.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many people doing house clearance now but they only bring the junk to boot sales - all the good stuff goes to auction.
DeleteI love the old tins, they are always so useful.
ReplyDeleteI only have this one and an old biscuit tin for my tea bags - I wonder if I could find others
DeleteThat's a useful find and even £2 isn't expensive, so a good buy. I have a BIG old enamel Flour bin, which I keep the open bags of flour (Plain, SR and bread) in, and the spares (always have spares of everything) in the pine sideboard it stands on. This is my baking cupboard.
ReplyDeleteGlad you found the right frame for your needs too.
I haven't been to a car boot sale in a year but I plan to go to Clyro this weekend (it's once a month but normally clashes with something else).
I once had a kitchen big enough for flour in a big crockpot standing on the worktop - but not for many years now.
DeleteCar boot sales are getting a bit boring, all the same stuff every week
Such a good find! I would love that. I keep my flour in large jars but it takes up lots of cupboard space. I haven't been to a car boot sale for years now. I can't seem to get up and organised early enough nowadays!
ReplyDeleteFor many years I kept two bags of flour in a huge crock pot but it broke several years ago and I wouldn't have room for it now anyway
DeleteIt is an immutable law that opening a bag of flour entails coating surrounding surfaces in white! It is especially true if you are a man doing it, when sufficient flour to bake a cake can escape! This is generally followed by “The look” from one’s dear wife!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who gets flour everywhere when opening a new bag
DeleteI keep my open bags of flour standing in plastic bags in the cupboard, but I'd much prefer a couple of tins like yours - a fab find! Gen
ReplyDeleteThat's what I do too - chances of finding another tin are very unlikely
DeleteGood find and it looks in excellent condition, too.
ReplyDeleteIt needed a good clean but no rust
DeleteI've often wondered that about pitch fees being covered by the regulars who sell week in week out all through the Summer, with the same stock being put out each time. I noticed it a lot when we were selling off the excess before we moved from Wales. Whereas our stall was virtually completely different every month as we worked though rooms and sheds, so many stalls were virtually identical, even in layout. Maybe it's more of a social outing rather than a money-making one.
ReplyDeleteLove the tin, it's a very useful size. I get round the problem of flour everywhere by decanting a newly opened bag into one of my big jars, as I posted about yesterday. It means a bit of flour on the worktop once and then a clean up, and every usage from there on is a bit cleaner. I do the same with Weetabix, I hate the crumbs going everywhere when you try and get them out of their individual sleeves!
I've seen lots of plain flour tins online, but only by Tala not McDougall's.
Some people lay out hundreds of toy cars etc - every week - mad!
DeleteTala tins are smaller which isn't much good for a match - I shall have to wait for the one in a million chance!
I am always surprised at people measuring flour out of the bag, I have always used a container of some kind to store it. When I was baking bread I bought flour in 25 pound bags.
ReplyDeleteWell Done!
DeleteThat's a nice tin.....a useful and attractive find.
ReplyDeleteAlison in Wales x
Makes a change nowadays to find anything useful
DeleteThat's a cute tin, and I think it was definitely worth what you paid for it.
ReplyDeleteI keep my flour in a glass jar, but it doesn't hold a full bag. Xx
It cleaned up OK - very useful
DeleteThat flour tin was a really good buy, I have something similar but mine's plastic, you got the tub and a bag of flour as a 'special offer'.
ReplyDeleteWill I ever find a Plain Flour tin - that is the question
DeleteGreat finds. Two frames, now you have options. The tin is perfect for your flour. I have large glass jars for my four, sugar and coffee.
ReplyDeleteI preferred the second but will hang onto the first one.
DeleteOh, I like that tin, Sue!
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased with it too
DeleteWell worth £2- and hopefully will keep you flour explosions under the lid.
ReplyDeleteThe tin looks nicer than a plastic bag - and useful too
DeleteI challenge you to find another tin for the plain flour!
ReplyDeleteDon't think I have enough years of car boot visiting left to find the Plain Flour Tin!
Deletethat was a GREAT bargain! I would love a tin like that.
ReplyDeleteCathy
I'm pleased with it too
DeleteI have that tin and another one in red for plain flour. They both came with a full bag of flour inside and I bought them in B & M some years ago. I think they were £1.50 each for the tin and flour. They are really handy.
ReplyDeleteThat is a pretty tin, so I hope you can find its partner :)
ReplyDeleteThe name on that tin was my mother's maiden name.... I hop you can find another tin like that for your plain flour.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
What a wonderful find.. Flour everywhere when opening is an age old problem for sure. I wish we had boot sales where I live. We have rare charity or collectible shops within driving distance. They started going away well before Covid when EBay seemed to take over and Covid finished the last few antique shops in our area. I’m not looking for collectibles at my age but I love a selection of usable!
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