The first car boot sales evolved American trunk sales and garage sales in the early seventies. The story goes that a Catholic priest called Father Harry Clark saw one on holidaysholidayingholiday in Canada and thought it canwouldwill be a good way to riseraiseraising money for his church in Stockport. He couldn’t have imagined that he was startingstartedwill start a craze that would become more popular the traditional British jumble sale. In fact, Britons today over £2.5m every yearsall the yearsper year at car boot sales, and there are web sites listing thousands of sales the country. There’s even TV game show callscalledcalling Boot Sale Challenge. Of course, it’s notnonone coincidence that the number of people wantingwantedwant to sell their unwanted possessions or find a bargain have raisedhas raisedhave risenhas risen as the economy has slowed.