What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

empressemma

Found a new charity shop today, they only opened on Saturday.
I really really really wasn't going to buy anything.....
But found a handmade vintage style full circle skirt dress in a Liberty print, in my size for £6!!! What's a girl to do?
I also picked up a h&m bag for £2.
Apparently, there'd been a cath kidston dress in earlier, but missed it.
I'll definately be returning to this gem of a shop!

Pollycat

carlamarie wrote: »

I've not ever thought to check the garments themselves to be honest with you!

Then you've been missing a trick!

I often go charity shopping with a friend - we both used to make our own clothes late sixties/early seventies - and we always have a feel at fabric and scrunch it up to see if it will crease and we've been in raptures over some buttons on a 99p dress or shirt.

Go girl!

paulineb_2

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

Our Barnardos did "all clothes 99p" for several weeks before they shut down, apparently due to the lease on the shop being too expensive to renew .

Hope yours isn't going the same way, but I'd advise you to fill yer boots while you can!

Its advertised as being a 99p store.

I think a few others are too.

paulineb_2

Artytarty wrote: »

Argh! Pauline! that's so unfair! I paid £1.99 for a sodding paperback in my Barnardos today! It's insane.

It depends on who is serving. I was in the previous week and I got one book for 99p, then someone else was buying books and he was told, 4 books for 99p, so I picked up 4 books and was only charged the 99p for all 4 of them.

Beenie

We have a 99p store in town, but I've noticed that the better items are priced accordingly.

DVDs are £1.99, good quality hardback books are £2.99 and some bric-a-brac is huge -- how about £46 for a single stamp album/collection? The woman who picked it up nearly fainted when she was told the price was correct!!!

Pollycat

Been to our local Barnardos today.

Dorothy Perkins beach-style dress, pretty shapeless 100% cotton and they priced it at..........£8.99. :eek:

Seriously! And it wasn't new as I checked the washing label and it was slightly faded.

This is in a small village that has another 5 charity shops, 1 of which is a clearance shop for the main Hospice shop we have.

The clearance hospice shop sells books for 25p or 5 for £1.
The main hospice shop sells books for 50p.

Barnados price their books at £1.99.

They haven't a clue - and not much hope of shifting stock at that price.

paulineb_2

Actually thinking about it, in my local barnardos, the clothes and books are priced at 99p, Im pretty sure the bric a brac is more expensive and possibly the shoes. But all the clothes definitely are 99p. I got a pair of black jeans last year for 99p and a jumper, also 99p and my mum was in at the weekend and got a pair of next trousers for 99p as well.

I may go out in a while and see if theres anything else worth picking up, really glad I got that duffel coat, its got a hood and its been great because its rained here almost every day lately.

Living_proof

It wouldn't do for all charity shops to have the same pricing policy. We would become complacent and lose that terrific feeling of optimism as we entered a new shop. There's a bargain in every one of them and it's just a case of finding it..... Which reminds me I am getting withdrawal symptoms and haven't ventured out for about a week....

Bogof_Babe

Living_proof wrote: »

It wouldn't do for all charity shops to have the same pricing policy. We would become complacent and lose that terrific feeling of optimism as we entered a new shop. There's a bargain in every one of them and it's just a case of finding it..... Which reminds me I am getting withdrawal symptoms and haven't ventured out for about a week....

The real trick is to prevent yourself buying something you don't really need, just because it's a bargain :rotfl:. I'm still working on that one!

Lucy5781

Having found exactly the M&S pramsuit I wanted for my youngest god-daughter in age 6-9 months back in the start of Autumn, I was chuffed the week before last to find the same one in 18-24 months in the same CS again for less than £5 (£17-£25 brand new).... Have had a lot of her best John Lewis and Monsoon dresses there too. Anyone else think they've all come from same donors?? lol