I’ve been to lots of car boot sales, both as a seller and a buyer. If you are an artist, you will find lots of interesting objects being circulated on the second-hand market. At one car boot sale that I visited, there was a man selling nothing but old postcards. I ended up buying one with an animated haggis on it running up a hill (don’t ask)!

Car boot sales are much more interesting than going to the shops, because you never know what you are going to find. Whereas shops are incredibly predictable and you see the same designs and colours repeated again and again. Sometimes after I’ve spent a few hours clothes shopping, I lose track of which shop I’m in as they all begin to merge into one.

The value of second-hand objects can change from worthless to desirable, depending on how long they’ve been around. At first they are items to be discarded, as they are “out of season”, “so last year” or just not liked anymore. After a while, though, they become desirable again. They transform from second-hand cast-offs to “vintage” collectables.

I’m selling at a car boot sale this weekend, releasing more second-hand goods into circulation and probably bringing back some curious items too.