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What is your charity shop bargain of the week?
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I got two bargains this week a black leather lk bennett handbag for £2 from local hospice shop and a g plan sideboard bought off facebook selling site for £5 they sell on eBay for upwards of £200 I'm delighted with my bargains0
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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..
How did you manage to save it- how clever to be in the right place at the right time! Very skilled and not something I achieve!0 -
I really belive in this - usually only go in for books and am never disappointed if I walk out with nothing, but very often buy something that I've been meaning read for a long time! On that basis I don't buy any book when new, I just wait and sooner or later it will turn up. Just gotta be a bit patient.Isn't it wonderful when something you really want turns up at a Charity Shop. Happy news for you.
Well done you! I get a much better thrill from buying at a lesser price than full price.MoaningMyrtle wrote: »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!:)
Have made some reaally good CS purchases over the past month (clothes)...most of which I haven't even had chance to try on, as they have been snaffled up by my mum and sister. For a small price I have made others a bit happier!Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
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Hope is not a strategy...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0 -
VfM4meplse wrote: »I really belive in this - usually only go in for books and am never disappointed if I walk out with nothing, but very often buy something that I've been meaning read for a long time! On that basis I don't buy any book when new, I just wait and sooner or later it will turn up. Just gotta be a bit patient.
Well done you! I get a much better thrill from buying at a lesser price than full price.
Have made some reaally good CS purchases over the past month (clothes)...most of which I haven't even had chance to try on, as they have been snaffled up by my mum and sister. For a small price I have made others a bit happier!
I knew you'd approve VfM4meplse!A minute at the till, a lifetime on the bill.
Nothing tastes as good as being slim feels.
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I bought some opi nail polish yesterday from age uk for 19p !! and a beautiful harrods writing set for £4.00 xx:j First prizes back into comping after a break - romantic break to 2 to Venice/ Paris or Rome with romantic trip and a 42 inch TV and blu Ray amazing !
Thank you all so much and good luck guys and girls xxxxxx0 -
OMG!sarah182xxx wrote: »I bought some opi nail polish yesterday from age uk for 19p !!
That's about £10 in shops! :T
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Just remembered:
I bought a Isle of Wight glass perfume bottle (I collect them) in our local hospice shop for £10 - in perfect condition.
It's a bit like this but taller and slimmer and my stopper is a shade of pink so nicer.
Retails at £79.95.0 -
OMG!
That's about £10 in shops! :T
Was it new?
Yes it was I was sooo chuffed
I am a huge fan of it but I always try to buy it on offer or from where I work which sell them 3 for £10.00 - not quite 19p though ! xx :j First prizes back into comping after a break - romantic break to 2 to Venice/ Paris or Rome with romantic trip and a 42 inch TV and blu Ray amazing !
Thank you all so much and good luck guys and girls xxxxxx0 -
I was hunting through the odds and sods basket in a Barnardo's and came across 3 medium size Kipling bags, all immaculate and clearly unused. Got them for £4.99 each - checked Ebay and the cheapest one, secondhand, was £35! :TLooking ahead0
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I was hunting through the odds and sods basket in a Barnardo's and came across 3 medium size Kipling bags, all immaculate and clearly unused. Got them for £4.99 each - checked Ebay and the cheapest one, secondhand, was £35! :T
wow congratulations on those bargains ! I love Kipling ! well done ! xx:j First prizes back into comping after a break - romantic break to 2 to Venice/ Paris or Rome with romantic trip and a 42 inch TV and blu Ray amazing !
Thank you all so much and good luck guys and girls xxxxxx0
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