If things get tougher?

Gigervamp

I love charity shops! I recently picked up a Sanderson double quilt cover and pillowcases set for a fiver from a charity shop. Good as new and probably cost about £60 new.
Going to car boots is fun too, but the weather hasn't been very good for them this year. It looks like this Sunday is going to be dry though, so I'm hoping to go to the one in Sully which is very good.

PennyPinchingPrincess

I love getting useful gifts - those things I could sort of do with but aren't such absolute essentials that I can justify buying them myself when things are tight! I think this xmas I'll ask for new slippers, the pair I have are mostly holes :sad: Last year it was warm pyjamas and the year before an umbrella :cheesy:

kaleoma

mary43 wrote: »

I love a bargain.............don't know when I last bought something 'new'........house is furnished from local second hand shops,(amazing what you can do with a pot of paint) got a lovely set of copper bottomed saucepans with a stand from charity shop -£25 (I did hesitate - not used to spending more than £5...........lol
Even duvet covers and curtains..........they're good as new, sometimes brand new.

I get loads of stuff from the charity shops work clothes for me, clothes for OH almost all of the kids clothes come from them. People must think I pay a fortune for the stuff but you can't knock designer trousers for 75p. I rather have the money in my pocket then in the tills of major fashion chain

Bargain_Rzl

Gigervamp wrote: »

I love charity shops! I recently picked up a Sanderson double quilt cover and pillowcases set for a fiver from a charity shop. Good as new and probably cost about £60 new.

Some things make me wonder who actually ever pays full price. Good-quality quilt cover and pillowcase sets are a case in point. I have three sets of bedding - all Sanderson or similar - all from TK Maxx for £15 a set £5 is really good going though :T

mary43

With charity shops it can be a bit hit and miss........if you're looking for something particular you just might not find it but then, thats half the fun really.
This years christmas and birthday pressies have all come from the charity shops...........worked out very cheap, got stuff early in the year when people were donating unwanted pressies so I've almost got everything for the year now.

katieowl_2

Bargain_Rzl wrote: »

You should be OK in Bromley this week - the new Lakeland was supposed to open on the 7th but it's been postponed until the 21st

(not that I'm interested or anything :whistle:)

OMG :mad: I wonder what I've got then??? They are very triumphant about something

Regards

Kate

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Thinking of christmas. We all made a pact to spend no more than £10 on each person and it has worked beautifully for the last 2 years. No one felt under pressure and everyone tried to be original. Christmas was more like it used to be. I think I will remind everyone again, it really took the pressure off people

sammy_kaye18

Evening all

Well just wanted to pop in and say hello. Speaking of gifts ome of you who use the daily thread may know today - I am the birthday girl. Well Ive had a very OS birthday indeed.

Bf got me a CD/DVD i wanted which he found for £12.99 - there was £60 in my card to from Benji to be used for clothes for me as I barely have any which will be stretched beyond belief in the littlewoods discount catalogue shops and the 5 charity shops we have in our little town.

Nan gave me some money which has gone into my 'summer holiday' fund

Mother in Law got me 'Maw Broons cookbook' which is from 1936 and fab!!! am going to have a read in a minute after ive posted. Plus she got me an art kit, complete with oil paints, water colours and a huge pad of paper to use which i love to do in my free time and since little one starts school i will be doing more of.

Sister in law got me perfume and a new handbag (needed as mine is falling to pieces).

Dad - dont know am getting it tomorrow when he visits and am due presents form my sister an mother tomorrow too - so all in all everything Ive had is useful and OS. (thinking my dad may have got me argos vouchers as I asked for a breadmaker)

good stuff

katieowl_2

sammy_kaye18 wrote: »

Evening all

Well just wanted to pop in and say hello. Speaking of gifts ome of you who use the daily thread may know today - I am the birthday girl. Well Ive had a very OS birthday indeed.

Happy Birthday Sammy!!! Hope you had a great day :beer:


Regards

Kate

ceridwen

tiff wrote: »

Hmm, very interesting posts. I didnt have many clothes growing up and used to get them for birthday and Christmas which I hated as I felt these were the things I was supposed to have anyway, and Mum and Dad didnt get clothes for Christmas! (I am 39). I've never bought my kids clothes for a present, but they have had them from other members of the family, which I dont mind and my kids like having clothes from them.

I agree with this post - I recall sometimes having clothes it was necessary for me to have anyway as Christmas and birthday presents - in other words: not actually getting a present at all! Presents are just thats - luxuries pure and simple - stuff you dont NEED and wouldnt have anyway. If you need a jumper or coat and get given it as your Christmas present - then you havent actually HAD a Christmas present.

I would be the first to think "If you have a perfectly adequate mobile phone or tv - then blow it - use that or pay for a replacement yourself" - but necessary clothes are necessary clothes and parents buy them anyway. There is certainly no way any of those so-called "present" clothes REALLY were presents - as I only ever had 2 or 3 changes of clothing as I grew up (errrr....could go someways to explaining why I have way too many now).

Ive never thought presents should have to be useful though, presents are presents, things you would otherwise not be able to have.

I totally agree with this. Presents ARE just that - presents. Luxury extras one would not have anyway. Necessary clothes are necessary clothes and should not be bought as "presents". This used to happen to me as a child - I only ever had 2 or 3 changes of clothing - but I often found at Christmas or Birthday time that some so-called present was actually clothing I needed to be given anyway. In other words - some years I didnt actually get any presents at all.

I would be the first to agree that if a child wanted a new mobile phone or tv - when they already had a perfectly adequate one - then they should fund it themselves or accept that it was their main birthday/Christmas present to have an unnecessary new one. But necessary clothes are necessary clothes.
To give a child necessary clothes at Christmas/birthday and call it a "present" is equivalent to a husband giving his wife a vacuum cleaner for instance for her birthday (something the house needed anyway and both of them would get the benefit of - in other words she hadnt had a present at all).