Great buy at a Flea Market

This entry is posted on 2 blogs - my main Jacob's Blog and my Oulu Best (Worst) Buy Blog.

Annikki and I are Flea Market addicts. We have picked up some really great buys at the Flea Markets. Usually we find exactly what we need when we set out to find the item. Coincidence?

Last Sunday, as Joanna, who is visiting Oulu, had approritated my last adaptor for her English hair drier, I was desperate to get hold of an adaptor to use my Indian bought LG Computer screen.

When I said I was going to a Flea Market, Annikki, who has not been out for weeks, was ready to tag along.

We went to the closest Flea Market to our residenece.

We were shocked to see the number of cars parked around. It was as if all of Oulu had descended on this Flea Market.

From Oulu Best (Worst) Buy

From Oulu Best (Worst) Buy

From Oulu Best (Worst) Buy

From Oulu Best (Worst) Buy

As I wandered around, I saw this a really beautiful designed multipurpose adaptor set.

It was just the one I wanted.

And the cost, an unbeliveable, € 1.50!

I have bought less attractively designed adaptors for Euro 3 and 4 each!

This adaptor remain in my travel kit as it is suitable for most countries, even if I do not travel very often these days!

Certainly worth making a visit to a Flea Market near you if you want to get what you really need at a price that you can afford! (P.S. Annikki also got some good buys on this trip, including a flaming red coat!)

Name Wanted! New Flea Market in Oulu

Quite a few Flea Markets in Oulu have closed down, moved or become not so attractive as they have changed their policy of what they are showing. Many have shifted over to more expensive antique furniture, trying to increase value turnover to meet their overhead costs.

The foreign community of Oulu and cost-conscious Oulu residents are prime users of Flea Markets, second only to my better half, who has picked up literally hundreds of great items from her visits to her favourite Flea Markets. Annikki is the ultimate Flea Market expert.

I have put up several web pages in the past on the Oulu Best Buy Blog telling people where the main Flea Markets are located, and I have visited all the Flea Markets regularly to see which ones have good offers.

Väliväiniö Ahmatie 16
Flea Market at Ahmatie 16 Flat 3.

After much soul searching I decided to start my own Flea Market, where the prices are really Flea Market prices. A small refreshment bar will also operate in the Flea Market.

I have finalised the name for the Flea Market or the daily opening times, nor have I employed anyone as yet. Presently, it operate between 09:00 am and 11:00 am on all weekdays, except Wednesday (07:45 am till 09:45 am). Timings for Saturdays and Sundays have not yet been finalised.

But you can get me out there by calling 041 706 7788.

I have a policy that if you purchase stuff more than € 30 I will organise free delivery to the front door of your building. I do not have staff to help you take it to your apartment and my age and back problem does not permit me to help with the really heavy stuff.

Last Sunday, as a launch, advertised in the Kaleva newspaper, I held a Courtyard Flea Market, supposed to open at 12 noon. People turned up already at 11:00 am. Because of the rush I was unable to move a lot of stuff from my godowns to the Flea Market. The weather held up till 17:00 hours when we had to close as a drizzle started.

This Sunday we will continue to have a Courtyard Flea Market, but we are not weather sensitive as we will have the indoor Flea Market open simultaneously. So no one will go away disappointed.

Welcome and hope you get some good buys!

Super Monday for fruits

This Monday is a great day, a Super Monday, for buying several fruits at the several K-Supermarkets around town. Choose the fruit very carefully as they have dumped them in large heaps (hence several arte squashed, etc.

There is a common number for weighing these cheaper fruits which are being offered on a kg basis.

They are selling several fruits at just € 1 (per kg or pack).

Imagine Sharon fruit (which usually costs €2 -3 per kg) for just € 1 per kg. Some items are being sold as kg and some as packs.

There are really good seedless green grapes (Nasik type but from Argentina) for just € 1 for 500 gms. I bought really good plums for € 1 per pack, Apple / Pears combination fruit for € 1 per kg, really large Pears for € 1 per kg. There are many more items so make a visit and enjoy cheap fruits when you can.

At the K-Citymarket you can get really good oranges for € 69 per kg. This is the lowest price for today for oranges.

I also found curtains, brand new, at the Pentecostal Flea market, behind the Pentecostal Church on Uusikatu for € 6 for 2 pieces of 45 cm x 220 cm in a pack, and € 6 for a pack of 2 pieces of size 120 cm x 170 cm. You d get such prices very rarely, sometime at Kodin Antilla or Antilla.

The Pentecostal Church Flea Market also has many second hand curtains. Today the prices for these are off 50% the marked price. Already cheap, (usually € 2 - 4), they cut off 50% from this price when you pay. Remember to measure your windows size and check the correct measurement of the curtains when you are buying them.

I am glad so many of you could take the opportunity to get the 40% cash discount at JESS!.

I usually report such special offers (after Annikki and I have had our fill of buying) here as many shops close down and have such sales offers. One of my friends who visited JESS! looked at the empty shelf where the tinned coconut milk had been - and rang me to say that he knew I had been there. I had bought the entire stock in the shop!

If you find any good offers that you want to share with the Oulu Best Buy community, either text me at 041 7067788 or email me and I will put it up for our regular readers.

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