Find It, Fix It, Flog It - Its Fabulous

Find It, Fix It, Flog It. Just That Simple So You Would Think!

I have finally become a junkie for a television programme who do just what the title suggests, well it doesn't suggest it that is exactly what they do. You have to be a person with barns or sheds and then they come over and go through all the dross to find two pieces that they reckon they can do up and and then sell it on or as we Brits like to call it flog it. As always it really is one mans trash being another mans treasure but that i think really applies to car boot sales, something i absolutely despair of but i have been known to go to them and yes i have bought things. Strange to say these things have become part of my home ergo must be i did find treasure among all that trash.

How i caught onto it was from bad came out some good. I had had an accident and was in bed unwell and of course my GP couldn't be bothered to pitch up so in bed and feeling a bit miffed i switched on the TV and saw the title of this programme and thought lets have a gander at this. And now i am totally hooked and i do mean hooked i absolutely adore it and frankly can't get enough of it. I talk to some of the guys on Twitter about the show and one said he had been reading my blog so why not do the courteous thing and write about it and if you haven't seen it please be my guest it will have that frown turned upside down, well it did mine.

There are a few men on this programme and they travel around the country and seek out two items each in their first hit. There is one guy called Henry who i have fallen in love with because he is just so natural and says many times the words of "Mate" or "Man" and i think a few times of "Rock and Roll" but totally naturally because this is just how he talks - Most of these places they go to are farms or just people who i believe one would call a hoarder of rubbish but sometimes some of the things they take aren't rubbish at all and bless our Henry if he can see a bike he then is transformed into absolute heaven. He found a real collectors bike the other day and with only 67 miles on the clock which frankly is amazing and so he had to have it and boy was he a happy bunny. Actually thinking about it he may have said just that but if you don't get him then you may think he was as mad as a box of frogs, trust me he is far from that.

Then there is the lovely guy called Max, now Max is very well known for what we now call 'Up-cycling' dunno why its called that but he is a master restorer that is for sure and he is more careful what he picks out of said sheds and generally his stuff would seem to be more salable or make more dosh for the people that own these sheds. I did actually tweet last week about this programme and how much i wish i had a shed so they could come over to my place but that's never going to happen because i am shedless if there is such a word. I don't live in the country and therefore i don't have a farm with a barn or two full of old tat, but trust me they do a fabulous job on the articles that they do take and it really has to be seen to be believed, i have to say i do also have a bit of a crush on Max because he to is a total gent and seems to be a lot of fun too!

Now there is another chap and his name eludes me right now but he comes from Liverpool and also trolls along with Henry on the hunt for goodies and has an assistant called Gemma who to me seems to do most of the restoration on some pieces and has her own kind of trademark. Now working on what they have bought they go off at some point to the next barn belonging to other people and find two more articles which they get permission to take away and see if they can fix it up to then flog it like i said the title is just as they say and off they go back with the next lot and tart them up. Now some of the things need little work done on them others quite a fair bit so whatever they spend on parts etc., will come off the final price which is then shown to one chap called Adam who is an auctioneer and another is a lady who has her own shop where she does sell restored furniture and they are the experts. 

I have to say it is fascinating and one piece i absolutely loved and would give house space for was if you can believe this an old fire extinguisher which was taken and cleaned off until it was sparkling silver obviously they got rid of anything left that would work to extinguish and then cut through about a three inch gap and went off to a specialist electrician to be fitted with a bulb and the electrics attached to it. I just wanted and still want it so much but apparently it wasn't as easy as they made it seem to do which is a shame because i want it. 

I never watch television during the day apart from another restore or upcycle programme with a lady i talk to on yet again Twitter called "Money for nothing." She just goes to legal furniture/rubbish dumps and asks if she can take away what people could be throwing away and then says can i tell you what i did with it and so forth and they are delighted. Now she has to find three things in total and she has several people who she takes things to and the third piece she takes for herself to do. Her name is Sarah Moore you can find them all on Twitter and join in the fun all lovely people and to be honest i did adore money for nothing but i have to be truthful now i am transfixed to my new find of said name - Find It, Fix It, Flog It. 

I do hope you believe me and watch for yourselves because trust me you won't be disappointed it really is a giggle and who doesn't like to have a laugh i know i do. Especially the way the world is going today on the news the world is a far more scary place than i ever imagined in my life time but i digress because the programme is not to be missed and i am looking forward to Max finding a piece of something and turning it into the style of the Diesel or the Steampunk era as this is terribly on trend at the moment - just have to wait and see.

I hope he likes this blog because i have thoroughly enjoyed writing about the programme and the presenters and i do apologise for not remembering the mans name in Liverpool but as i said i just found it so do please forgive me. What they make from their hard work money wise is given to the various people who do come to see what they did with what was once their property at the end of the programme is all given to them and some walk out with a few hundred and some into the thousands. Now do you have a lovely old barn full of stuff, well if you do then contact them and who knows it could be you they come to next.

Liz - I still want that lamp. Damn no shed here, but lads you are welcome any time for a cuppa.