Selling small items

[SaligoBay]

I know people have asked this before, but I'm still not clear about it. 

We were walking through the backstreets of a village/small town the other day, and I noticed a hand-written sign saying "A vendre - napperons brodés et objets......"  (sorry, can't remember the French for crocheted!).

A quick look in the window revealed the crochet objects to be those dreaded dolls in frilly crocheted dresses.   Yes, you know the kind, you can stick a bog roll up them!!

Anyway, I suspect she was not a "fully registered artisanale bog-roll-holder crocheter", yet it was on full public display.

Is this legal?  Can any of us do it?  Is it just a case of declaring what you earn?  And of course, there is a limit to what you're allowed to earn, isn't there?

Not that I want to crochet, you understand, but many of us do have other talents that we could profit from, even in a very small way. 

[opas]

Should have thought it would cost more in fishnets than would be gained for flogging my assets!

Mrs o

[SaligoBay]

And you'd have to be fully registered and insured, of course, in case anyone fell off and broke something.

 

It WAS a serious question, btw, sorry if the bog-roll-holder looked too much like a kipper rouge.

Is it at all possible to sell things legally?   I do mean small things, Christmas cards, touristy things, Mrs O's home-crocheted fishnets, whatever.

Could I advertise them, or would the Entrepreneur Police be down on me like a tonne de briques?

 

[Miki]

No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no YES

Everyone wants to be ooh so French, so what better then, than to copy the French themselves ! Selling little laces privately may destroy Carrefour's own emporium, so do be careful out there Grand Frère is watching you......

We buy most of our veg and salad from a couple of the folks around us, do they pay cotisations, well being agri, I guess it might be within their scope perhaps ?