What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

Artytarty

Today I bought a Boden dress, coff and cream colour with a coral band at waist evel for £6.50
A manly looking old sleeve board for £1.50 it looks horrid but I will recover it, I've always wanted one for my dressmaking projects and this is an old sturdy wooden job.

silvasava

Artytary - I'm just going to put an old wooden sleeve board that DH made me in the CS!! I did wonder about it but perhaps with all the renewed interest in sewing someone will give it a good home.
I went into my local Hospice craft shop for some very long zips (recovering cabin seats) They had some beautiful plastic toothed double ended ones., just perfect and I paid £5.00 for the five & one of them is about 2metres long! I also managed to get a reel of thread to match the material for 50p. Its such a great little shop & draws me like a magnet

Artytarty

Ha! I'd say it will go quickly, The new series of Great British Sewing Bee starts next week!
Well done on the zips.

whitesatin

I love reading of people's charity shop buys.

Today I bought a lovely, hand knitted by charity workers using donated wool, patchwork knitted blanket. It is huge and the colours are tasteful. At £9.50 I thought it was a great buy, it would take me years to knit something like that and I would, no doubt, give up before I finished.

The other things I bought today were 4 pairs of jeans (Adams/George/Tesco) for my grandsons. A lovely denim shirt for one of them and a GAP fleece with a hood for the other. £6.50 total.

It is funny though, I always buy for my grandsons as I know that my daughter (who could well afford to buy new) appreciates the items. But I would never buy for my other grandchildren because I know their mum, my daughter in law, would not be best pleased. I think my daughter takes after me.

patricia50

In my local Oxfam shop I found an as new book, Tom Kerridges - Proper Pub Food.
It cost me £3.99 but I've wanted it for ages and its selling for about £9.99

Starrystarrynight

I bought 4 cookbooks for £5 on my last visit. I love the older books in particular, so I was really pleased. X

Ches

Pair of brand new black Gerry Webber trousers for me. Still with price tag of £69 and I paid £9.

jenhug

My daughter got a Harrods long, camel hair coat for £15, and my mum an Armani coat for £2.50

CT19720

I had an appointment yesterday in a different town, and whilst waiting for a friend I popped into the CS next door. I managed to find a green hollister hoodie, that looks brand new for £3.50. I'd forgotten to take a coat with me because the sun was out, so it was a no brainer not to buy it. My youngest son asked me today how much I paid for the hoodie and was impressed. He is almost 12 and we are about the same size so I don't think it will be long before he nabs the hoodie for himself!

janb5

Lovely Reign weillies with polka dots on them£2 some loafer shoes -£4+ 2 white shirts for my son £2 and a Per Una coat for me. £8.50.