Tivo Surprise

[susandennis]

Tivo recorded a new program for me from BBC America - The Life Laundry. A team of one perky American woman and a non-descript Brit guy go around England and find messy homes. They clean out the shit and then redecorate a bit. They show all the stuff and how they got rid of it. It's very nice to see people with more clutter than me.

And now I finally know what a boot sale is! aellia's always talking about boot sales and I had kind of pieced together the concept from the context. But, now I know for sure.

Here in the west (and most of the rest of the country) we call it a yard sale. In the northeast, it's a tag sale.

But really it's more of a rummage sale - everyone brings their stuff to one place and sells it. In California there were a couple of old outdoor drive in movie theaters that turned into giant rummage sales on weekends. Great fun.

Comments

[melodysk.livejournal.com]

That perky American woman really gets my goat ...people *that* perky should get a slap!

She also subscribes a bit too much to the *thro stuff out to get rid of amotional baggage* type of thing...a bit new wave for me I suppose

(can't tell I watch it...can you?)

*laugh*

[susandennis]

Frankly I think it's a bit disconcerting to have an American on a show like that. How can she know what's important in England, for cryingoutloud??? But, yeah, hard to tell if you've ever seen the prog :)

[aellia.livejournal.com]

I have visions of you thinking that all that was sold there were *boots*!!!
The name comes from when it first started to be popular here and people would come together abd sell their things from the boots of their cars..
I suspect that's confused you even more though..what do you call that part of the car there? :-)

[susandennis]

Actually, I did think for a while it was for selling shoes because I think the first time I remember your mentioning one, you bought boots!

BUT, your question raises even more confusion...

Your car boots are our car trunks. BUT over here a trunk sale has nothing to do with cars or their storage spaces.

A trunk sale here is a sale of sample clothes. Wholesalers (who used to cart their dress samples from store to store in... you guessed it... trunks!) set up a temporary shop somewhere and have a trunk sale where they sell the samples. The clothes are all pretty much a size 8 which is way too big for a super model and way way way too small for my fat ass!

[aellia.livejournal.com]

Boots,trunks,yards!
If this sort of thing is held indoors here..like in a church hall..it's called a *jumble sale*
Your last sentence made me smile..lots!

[susandennis]

We sell absolutely NO jumbles here. But sometimes our rummage sales are called flea markets. And... I have absolutely ZERO clues why. And I'm not even sure I want to know that one.

[aellia.livejournal.com]

Yes,I've often wondered about the fleas too!
I've just had a look at your great website, by the way!
Makes mine look a bit humble :-)

[susandennis]

Thank you. My website is a fun little hobby - it's kind of evolved over the past decade.

[melodysk.livejournal.com]

Trunks here are attached to pachyderms

Or contain clothes (usually in storage)

Or are a type of mens underwear

*laugh*

And we get drugs from Boots

Oh and Boots is a cartoon dog The Perishers (http://www.shadowgallery.co.uk/perishers.html)

Sales

[nezbitthecat.livejournal.com]

And in the Midwest we call it a "Garage Sale" named after the item's venue or orign.

[theryn.livejournal.com]

Here in the midwest it is a garage sale if it's at home and a flea market if it's the kind where a bunch of people get together and sell items at a designated place.

[susandennis]

Now that I think about it, their boot sale is really equal to our flea market. Almost exactly. They gather there cars in a spot and sell out of the boots (trunks). We don't seem to have too markets here in the northwest - maybe that's just downtown Seattle - maybe they have them out in the burbs and boonies.