On Saturday 26th January we opened our doors and had a hugely successful rastro (mini car boot sale) in our patio.
We spent the week or so beforehand gathering bits and pieces from the cellar, attic, children’s toy boxes and were extremely surprised at the amount of stuff we’d accumulated. A lot of it was things we hadn’t even used since we moved to Spain over 3 years ago now.
I had no idea how it would be received since, in my experience, Spanish people tend to throw things away and prefer to buy brand new.
Jim and I had scootered around the town putting up posters and word got round quickly. So much so that a friend of a friend understood there was a rastro in front of the church organised by the town council! At this stage I started to get a bit nervous, I mean we didn’t really have much stuff and I felt people were going to be disappointed.
My fears were unnecessary. On Saturday morning, Jim, Joe and Maggie went to the bottom of the Cuesta Belen to put up some small signs and arrows leading the way to our house, whilst I set about organising the patio to resemble a jumble sale.
By 10.30am I’d even managed to put some price stickers on items and decided to pop next door to Juan’s bar to grab a coffee before we started…. well Juan decided to bring the coffee back to the house for me (a first!) and took the opportunity to browse the rastro. He spent over 20 euros! And the door had been left open, people started trickling in and we were off. I hadn’t even had chance to drink my coffee.
Spot the local vicar buying three cans of Murphys in the photo above
There was a steady stream of people until about 1.30, so at 2pm we decided to call it a day. There was next to nothing left, a couple of bags of clothes and a few cups and saucers. What a great day and a great way to get rid of old junk!
Emma