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What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

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  • kitschkitty
    kitschkitty Posts: 3,177 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    :D

    (though I do still love ebay too).
    A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
  • Pollycat
    Pollycat Posts: 35,963 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Savvy Shopper!
    kitschkitty wrote: »
    :D

    (though I do still love ebay too).

    Me too - just not for clothes.
  • kitschkitty
    kitschkitty Posts: 3,177 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Well I got myself some great bargains today, a Daewoo 800w silver coloured microwave for just £15, microwaves go for more than that on ebay round here, and we've needed a new one for over 2 years! (We bought one after our wedding with matching kettle & toaster & a week later it stopped working & they had no matching ones left, so we kept using our really old one)!

    Also got a hand held vac for £10 so I can actually hoover the stairs again, (when I got our old dirt devil out of storage and pluged it in to charge, smoke came out of it, and I never got round to replacing it) again they kept on selling for more on ebay. :)

    The Artemis Fowl Files, £1.25 (now have all the books).

    Finally treated myself to a lovely top for £1.99.
    A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
  • DianneB
    DianneB Posts: 884 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts
    The thing I love about charity shops is the surprise, I don't know what I am looking for but I know when I find it!!
    Slightly bitter
  • Georgiegirl256
    Georgiegirl256 Posts: 7,005 Forumite
    DianneB wrote: »
    The thing I love about charity shops is the surprise, I don't know what I am looking for but I know when I find it!!

    Exactly! :rotfl:
  • Nicnax
    Nicnax Posts: 168 Forumite
    DianneB wrote: »
    The thing I love about charity shops is the surprise, I don't know what I am looking for but I know when I find it!!

    Very true xx
  • -taff
    -taff Posts: 15,439 Forumite
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    A £1.99 shirt that I turned into a cushion cover with added floral embellishments....and had some left over to stick on something else.
    Non me fac calcitrare tuum culi
  • Pollycat
    Pollycat Posts: 35,963 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Savvy Shopper!
    -taff wrote: »
    A £1.99 shirt that I turned into a cushion cover with added floral embellishments....and had some left over to stick on something else.

    I saw a very good quality jersey dress in lovely jade & purple swirls in Arthritis Concern - but it was a size 26! :eek: And I'm a size 14. :)

    If it's still there on Saturday, I'm seriously considering buying it and making a calf length fitted shift dress out of it.

    Watch this space. ;)
  • Georgiegirl256
    Georgiegirl256 Posts: 7,005 Forumite
    Pollycat wrote: »
    I saw a very good quality jersey dress in lovely jade & purple swirls in Arthritis Concern - but it was a size 26! :eek: And I'm a size 14. :)

    If it's still there on Saturday, I'm seriously considering buying it and making a calf length fitted shift dress out of it.

    Watch this space. ;)

    I always see gorgeous things that are not in my size. If they a size or two bigger depending on the style then that's fine, as I like somethings to be looser, but usually they are one or two sizes too small grrrrrr!
  • Bogof_Babe
    Bogof_Babe Posts: 10,803 Forumite
    I'm getting really picky in c/shops now, as I simply don't have room for more impulse buys. However today I couldn't resist an as new pair of quite stylish black ecco flatties in Oxfam for £6.99 in my exact size (6.5). Half sizes are hard enough to find even in 'proper' shops!

    The nearest style to them that I can fine online are £70. Well pleased, as I'm going to a birthday party next week, and was wondering what shoes to wear with my black Per Una jeans that I got for £4 last week! :T
    :D I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe :D

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