Martin Lewis' MSE urges drivers who have a car boot to claim easy £100

Martin Lewis has urged car drivers with a boot to ensure they are using car boot sales - because they could bag an eays £100. The BBC Sounds and ITV star spoke out on the latest Money Saving Expert newsletter where he discussed a reader's success.

MSE explained: "'I made £100 using your car boot sale tips and tricks.' Our success of the week comes from Lorna, who said: "Long-term Martin Lewis groupie. Recently I followed the car boot tips when selling items from my mother-in-law's house and made £100, which is double my usual earnings.

"This was down to sorting all the costume jewellery and pricing it beforehand, which I had not done before. Thanks." If we've helped you save or make cash (on this, or owt else), send us your successes." The newsletter lands in email accounts each and every Wednesday.

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MSE worker Clare explained: "I found free stuff on Facebook Marketplace to sell. To make things more profitable (I wanted to at least cover my £12 pitch fee), I decided to scour Facebook Marketplace and Gumtree for anything that people were giving away for free in my area. I set search alerts for "freebies" within a 5km radius of where I live, checked sellers' other items in case they were happy for me to take a job lot of freebies at once, and then spent the two weeks prior to the car boot sale messaging sellers and collecting everything from a kids' mini drum kit to a touch-top kitchen bin.

"I made around £25 purely from the free stuff I'd collected locally – the best being the kids' mini drum kit, which went for £4, and a kitchen bin for £3. I did however end up with a fair few "freebies" still in my possession at the end of the day, including magnetic L plates and an old wooden tennis racket (I did check if it was worth anything as an 'antique' beforehand but sadly, it wasn't).

"So I promptly donated these to my local charity shop that afternoon, along with the rest of my own items that didn't sell."