What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

cat4772

I've lost a bit of weight and gone down a few dress sizes but as I'm still planning to lose more weight, I don't want to spend a fortune replenishing my wardrobe. I've picked up a few things just lately:

my local hospice shop had a pair of black trousers for £2
a red South top for £1
a black leather belt for £1.50

a red cardigan for my daughter (that she wants to wear all the time) for 99p - has definitely been a bargain and even better it washes really well - certainly hasn't bobbled in the wash yet.

Cat.x

wiltsguy_2

last year i bought a amber egg yoke beaded necklace for £2.50 from a charity shop! sold on ebay for £425!

Pollycat

cat4772 wrote: »

I've lost a bit of weight and gone down a few dress sizes but as I'm still planning to lose more weight, I don't want to spend a fortune replenishing my wardrobe.

Charity shops are great for padding out your wardrobe when losing weight.

wiltsguy wrote: »

last year i bought a amber egg yoke beaded necklace for £2.50 from a charity shop! sold on ebay for £425!

WOW!
That really is a bargain!

Pollycat wrote: »

M&S (Indigo) floaty top, blue background with mint green/fuchsia/orange flowers.
Should have had a vest underneath but didn't but I have a mint green vest & a fuchsia one anyway. £3.00
Great with jeans or jeggings.

All from our local hospice shops.

And I have a big pile of stuff to go up to the hospice shop tomorrow.

Further to my post above, I took a load of stuff up to our local hospice shop and found another M&S (Indigo) floaty top with a cream background and blue flowers - more of a bargain at £1.50.

sparrer

Two White Company down pillows bnwt were £65 each, the cs sold them to me for £3 each. I think it must be the bargain of the century!!! :j

gatita

I was lucky enough to find a super pair of Clarks leather sandals, never been used. £3.50 yippee

MoaningMyrtle

In December I fell in in love with a Per Una coat in Marks and Spencer. It was £99.00, it was then reduced to £55.00. I kept monitoring the price in M&S (Anyone else do this?) But did not buy it.

Today there was one in Sue Ryder for £8.99! So at last it is mine! Perseverance is the motto here!:)

Miró

Not found much lately except.....

A pair of Brooker, straight leg, dark denim jeans - were on sale originally for £3.50 - ended up on the £1 rail so I snapped em up.

Also found a really cute pill organiser...the usual plastic inner with daily compartments but encased in a rose patterned, satin, zipped case...bit like a teeny make-up bag....all of 50p :j

Horace

Last week I bought 4 DVDs which cost me £4 (£1 each) - some were new as they were still in their wrapping. Yesterday I picked up a wooden thing to store my remotes for £1 and today I have a lovely charcoal grey trench coat from BHS with detachable warm lining - it cost me £3.50. It claims to be a size 14 petite - yet it is well below my knees and I am 5'8". One thing about working in a charity shop is that you get to the see the bargains before they go onto the shopfloor (if you are working in the back which I was this afternoon).

sparrer

A bag of necklaces and bracelets for 50p, perfect for making into new ones to match my pink and yellow holiday clothes.

Horace

Yesterday I saved a pencil drawing by the artist David Hawker from being chucked in the rubbish - I donated £1 so that I could have it. It is a bit battered around the edge of the paper but the central picture is fab - I checked on the internet and his pencil drawings sell for £100. I would probably get half that due to the damage to the paper.

I forgot another donation that I made to save something else from going into the rubbish - a professional icing gun with various nozzles and discs for making cookies. this also cost me £1..