Last week I had been talking to my dad about buying cheap things for my house so we have a lot of the stuff we need when we get the house. My dad mentioned about going to an auction as you can get some pretty decent stuff there for good prices. Him and my mum go to them quite a lot and have come back with some pretty cool things including a huge coffee table, a spinning DVD/VHS and CD rack, very large mirror etc I thought it would be a good idea to go so I agreed to go with them on Satruday morning.

We had to get up really early so we could get there in time for the auctions to start and to have a look round at everything to see if there was anything we wanted to go for. Dad had to go and register so we had a numbered card we could stick up in the air when we wanted something There were different rooms for different things, with auctions for those rooms starting at different times in the day. We had gone into the ‘furniture’ room and I’d found something in there I wanted to go for :p A decent looking chest of drawers. I already have a good one at home, but I need another one for the new house - well Matt does really Made a note of it and the time the auction was starting and went for a wonder else where. We ended up in a ‘junk’ room where an auction was just about to start. The room got pretty packed, crammed in like sardines!! It started and it all seemed to get pretty quick!! There wasn’t anything in there I wanted to bid for so I was looking around the room at the people who were bidding! Loads of traders there who the auctioneer seemed to know, they only had to give a quick nod of their head and the price went up!! It was fun watching it all happen!!

We decided to leave half way through and go looking else where. It was really busy, which mum said was very unusual as it’s usually very quiet when ever they go. We realised why it was so busy though. People had shown up to get on the telly! BBCs Flog It were going to be filming there that day! Any chance to get on telly!

It was getting close to the time the auction I wanted to be in was going to be starting so we headed over to where it was going to be. The chest of drawers I wanted were quite early on so I didn’t have long to wait. The book that everyone got when they register had all the items listed and how much they thought they could go for. Mine was listed at £20. I decided that would be the highest I would go. It started and before I knew it, it had gone up to £50, before I had a chance to show my little card and make a bid Mum reckons it’s becuase of all the people that showed up for the telly! What rubbish!! We plan on going again when they’re not filming so hopefully it’ll be quiet and I’ll actually be able to bid on something!!