What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

Willowpop

No good for me, but in the hospice shop in Dagenham Heathway shopping mall there is an absolutely beautiful wedding dress. Think it was £125...but it was stunning. If you're in the area and looking for a wedding dress it's well worth popping in.

I did find a lovely top for my daughter to wear to a wedding reception we've been invited to though, black with juwels and diamantes all over it. £2.99 :T

little_miss_sunshine_3

This week:

Animal bag (small & pink) - £3.50
Animal belt - £1.50
Fenchurch t-shirt - £3.50

happy with my lot, great for the up comming holiday (well 3 months away)

BitterAndTwisted

A brand new glass cutting board for 20 pence. Shame about the wide-necked vacuum-flask for fifty pence and the Lawrence Durrell paperback also for fifty pence which I left behind on the counter. Doh!

Never mind, at the Sue Ryder shop I found a brand new plain, cream-coloured double duvet-cover for £1.95

emma-uk

My OH came back from our St John's Ambulance CD today with 2 long sleeve tops from Next and a Bench zip up top for our 4yr old son, all in new condition and paid a grand total of.......£1.80!!!

This place is an absolute under priced gem!

nuttybabe

I popped into a small charity shop earlier with dd and we got 4 books and a board game (looked new but had been used once and in immaculate condition) for 70p was well chuffed

Bogof_Babe

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

A brand new glass cutting board for 20 pence. Shame about the wide-necked vacuum-flask for fifty pence and the Lawrence Durrell paperback also for fifty pence which I left behind on the counter. Doh!

Never mind, at the Sue Ryder shop I found a brand new plain, cream-coloured double duvet-cover for £1.95

They might have put your forgotten items behind the counter in case you go back for them. Worth a try.

GubGub

CupOfChai wrote: »

I LOATHE this! Especially as it seems to be rare that the local charity shops have anything in my size. It's all very well and good for a normal shop to group clothes by styles, since they have several in different sizes of each thing, but really! Why have they all started doing it? They've seen that Mary Portas and got fancy ideas probably.

It actually makes me not buy any of the clothes as it's far too much effort to even look through them all, I bet they haven't thought about that.

I actually used to work for a national chain of charity shops and they researched this by trialing it by colour and by size in various shops. Turns out they sold more when grouped by colour!

kitschkitty

Personally I quite like them organised by colour - but then my wardrobe at home is organised by colour too. I do think it helps when each colour section is organised by size too though.

As I already have 2 full wardrobes at home I am a lot stricter these days & don't buy things unless I know they will go with other items already in my wardrobe. I also think (especially when items are more expensive) is this nicer than the things I already have at home? or if it's cheap I think is it as good as the basics in my wardrobe? If it's nothing special I just don't buy it any more as I end up with too many clothes.

What I really hate (and there are only a couple of shops I know that still do this) are clothes not organised in any way at all - I even know of one shop that has no size labels on the hangers - I never, ever look at clothes in there.

There is one shop I go to that has a separate rail for plus sizes - not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing!

dragonlily

I've had a good week this week, pair of as new Next Silver Heels (last season) in exactly my size £4.50 and what looks like a BNWOT Evans cardigan for £5 x

sweaty_betty

Hi there - I'm an avid charity shop fan and am going to be in Cambridge early next week. Does anyone know which charity shops are good around the city centre/university?

Tia