Great finds Franz 
Weekend activities! (old thread reanimated)
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No flea markets around in your area, Paul?
Charlie and Debs would like it.
Its so much fun.
Talking with the people (even politics 
)
and if lucky there are things to be found.
But its much more.
All strolling âhuntersâ around are really a " close family",
We know each other so well.
Quite everything!
A huge regulars table, really incredible!
I do this meanwhile for more than 40 years.
Its really a part of my life.
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We have regular car boot sales but permanent markets are becoming less common now.
Norwich has a large market in the centre of the city but that would be the place you would find âodd treasuresâ like you have.
And many of the car boot sales are people selling stuff they donât want, but some bargains have been found at car boot sales.
There are even TV programs in the U.K. based on that sort of thing.
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Same here, regarding the âTV-showsâ but all is âfakeâ.
Those experts arenât worth a penny.
A friend of mine who is an excellent expert in old glass
was fired there, because he told people the truth when they showed up garbage.
He was too honest!.
Same like me, so I will never become an influencer. 
But the photos you published are like a normal market.
Not such a flea market we have here.
Many private people offering things.
Take a look.
Thatâs a typical scenery here in MĂŒnchen.
Its more than âcultural assetâ meanwhile here.
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This guy is called David Dickinson, he is an antiques dealer.
Now I think his suntan is certainly fake 
His TV program is Bargain Hunt, a very poor daytime TV show.
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Same specialists are acting in âcooking showsâ
All got a fat belly but they are in the modern âvegan mainstreamâ!
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Yes Franz, this is what we would call a car-boot sale.
Private/domestic sellers getting rid of random things they either have in their homes or have purchased to sell.
I have been to one or two but they donât have much appeal to me. Iâm more of an eBay and Amazon shopper
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Too many people are buying what they donât need, make themselves skint then attempt to sell.
Our ancestors walked out of Africa with their homes on their backs, and so I think we should get as close to that possible.
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Cables and powerbanks only! 
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Well, tent, airbed, sleeping bag, stove, solar panel, a few underwear items you wash in stream and then dry on a guyline, and a powerbank, a charger for when in a pub.
Thatâs everything you need. Any more is just excessive.
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And your house, which you acquired recently?
Solution:
Rent it and pitch your tent in the garden.
I am sure your tenants will let you do this, if you pay them a little fee!
That would fit for a real true minimalist!
Mrs Geek has never matured to the minimalist superiority. Iâll keep trying.
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Oh ja!
So there could be a interesting symbiosis.
Mrs. Geek living in the house and Mr. Geek outside in his tiny tent,
surrounded by his beloved cables and powerbanks.
But there should be meetings from time to time.
(This would be a fantastic story for a movie)
And it would fit perfectly to our special sense of humor.
This way you would become the most famous âAnker starâ for ever!
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Well in the past that has kind of happened. Iâve lived in many houses and one occasion a couple came to visit and Mrs Geek bunked with our daughter and I slept in a tent in the garden.
I donât need much. I suspect global warming and plastic littered oceans and a few wars would not have happened if more people like Mr Geek.
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Indeed @professor
Itâs taken me a while but Iâve managed to curb the spending and buy only what we need rather than what we want.
Two things I really noticed,
1, financially we are much better off. I know that seems obvious but it meant we have been able to save more and reduce our remaining mortgage from 15 to 9 years in just 2 years and hope to continue that pattern as we donât have an overpayment limit.
2, the amount of clear space we have and less âstuffâ cluttering the house is unbelievable.
As not only did I stop buying stuff, I also sold off most of the unnecessary duplicates.
I kept clothes etc and the things that would replace items that quickly wear out. But sold off the 12 or so watches that I didnât wear. Gadgets I bought and rarely used like cameras, games consoles etc.
In doing that it freed up enough money to pay 10 months worth of mortgage payments.
Quite a liberating period of time for me.
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I am the same, though I visit flea markets.
I keep my findings a while and sell it after that.
So the house is not overloaded and there is not such a
âbig storageâ.
If I would have kept all those things the house would have broken down.
I do this âdealing and wheelingâ since 45 years now and you all can imagine what I got in this long period.
But its always interesting to buy something which I can âplay aroundâ and look at. (e.g. the figure and the tea caddy from Saturday, I published photos)
Like @professor said: If all would be like us, there would be no plastic pollution and no global warming.
In my childhood after WWII we were incredible poor,
so we had to care about things, no waste at all.
And I kept this behavior of course.
Enjoy the week my friends @professor and @paulstevenewing
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Cold here.
Rain and ca 11C.
No flea market.
Feeding the tile stove.
My winnings from soundcore will show up today.
Second Flare mini!
I can install TWS now - > Stereo.
The other mini (same model @professor will receive) I will be donating to my son.
The daughter has one.
But the kids never should be âoverworkedâ
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Currently enjoying day 2 of a 5 day bank holiday weekend 
Yesterday was a nice trip to the coast, plenty of walking rounded off with fish and chips (because you have to 
)
Today could be some garden lounging as the weather, for a change, is sunny and warm.
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Did you get that Motion + fixed?