What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

Miró

kboss2010 wrote: »

In a way I hope not. There already enough CS charging over the odds for poor quality tat because they can label it 'vintage'

My local town has a Sue Ryder 'vintage' shop full of luridly coloured 'Margo from The Good Life' - style kaftans and suchlike, all vastly overpriced. Never see anyone in there buying anything tho. It's a very smartly kitted out shop too....don't know how they survive?

debtmess

Chuffed to bits today I got a £60 high chair for the massive sum of £4 just needs a quick once over in the shower. It has various height and recline positions and a nice girly pink. Dd won't need for a few months but for the price worth storing

rchj4

I got a lovely pottery money box, exactly like the ones that hold £400 in pound coins & have to be smashed to get the money out . Mine cost £2-49 from our CS & it has a plastic bung beneath so I can reuse it .
I've started today on saving the first £400 !!!

Afterwards I called in at a church jumble sale & found a lovely thick blue chenille jumper for when the weather goes cold. It was 75p & it's already been washed & dried by me . It's come out beautifully .

I'm so into this type of recycling . Items that have been disgarded or neglected by someone go to new homes where they're really enjoyed & appreciated . It also saves a fortune & gives me a better buzz than guiltily spending lots of money at the ' posh ' shops.

scattymam1

I met up with my stepmam and my daughter in a charity shop this week as me and my son had been for an appointment. My daughter had spent her pound she had been given, my four yr old son on seeing that she had something started asking for something but I didn't have any money on me, he found a frisbee for 20p but I didn't even have that. Anyway when I looked closer it wasn't a frisbee it was oa tupperware container lid, laughing we showed the shop lady as it was in the kids toys boxes and had been priced as a toy, we all had a laugh from this and hence she said he could have it for free, happy child throwing his plastic lid = happy mam with her bargain lol x

sarah182xxx

really pleased with my bargain yesterday. I bought a genuine Ed Hardy jacket for £2.75 from RSPCA charity shop. also bought some 1000 pieces jigsaws for my grandma for British heart foundation and a lovely brand new HM top for £2.00


really chuffed love reading everyone's bargains too !


xxx

tibawo

Local church has a nearly new shop this coming week... I am so excited!

Two years back dd1 got a chiffon layered red top for 50p. Everyone said how gorgeous it was. Dd2 now fits in it and the compliments keep coming!

Missed last years as we were away.

Lizling

maman wrote: »

I wonder if CSs will become socially acceptable like Aldi and Lidl? I think people are so fed up with being ripped off they're voting with their feet. Browsing the CSs gives a 'retail therapy buzz without the expense.

I thought it already was!

It was a GP friend who first got me into charity shops, and I've got a lawyer friend who's very proud of her CS outfit, too.

Even high-maintenance acquaintance (:D I think I'll call her that from now on) who thinks nothing of spending £300 or so on a jumper doesn't sneer at a good designer CS find.

kboss2010

Lizling wrote: »

I thought it already was!

It was a GP friend who first got me into charity shops, and I've got a lawyer friend who's very proud of her CS outfit, too.

Even high-maintenance acquaintance (:D I think I'll call her that from now on) who thinks nothing of spending £300 or so on a jumper doesn't sneer at a good designer CS find.

That's how many well-off people stay well-off! :beer:

Westywoodpecker

Finding myself in Essex thought it would be rude for me not to visit a charity shop or two!

Found a lovely purple blouse for £2.50 really pleased.

maman

Lizling wrote: »

It was a GP friend who first got me into charity shops, and I've got a lawyer friend who's very proud of her CS outfit, too.

Even high-maintenance acquaintance (:D I think I'll call her that from now on) who thinks nothing of spending £300 or so on a jumper doesn't sneer at a good designer CS find.

kboss2010 wrote: »

That's how many well-off people stay well-off! :beer:

Completely agree.


I've worked hard for the money I've got and I've no intention of wasting it.