What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

Owain_Moneysaver

Pollycat wrote: »

My friend bought Fifty Sheds Damper for me (Heavens knows why, she knows I like gutsy novels). I would have paid a charity shop 25p to take it off my hands. :rotfl:

They amused me for half an hour and have already been passed on

kboss2010

My latest charity shop hoard was:

A Snoopy and Woodstock teapot for £3.25
A Boston Crew t-shirt for OH for £1.50
A couple of heavy wood photo frames for £1 each
A red velvet and lace dress for 50p
A kitchen roll holder for £1
A wooden banana hanger for £1 (been needing one for ages to stop my bananas going brown)
A beautiful lavender-coloured tall, heavy glass jug with an etched heather pattern + 6 small matching tumblers for £3 (it's so pretty and I bet it was really expensive as it weighs a ton!)

Ches

Pair of Windsmoor jeans £1. Betty Barclay thin jumper £2. Cream jumper £2.50.

Flixton0

First charity shop find for a while our local Hospice shop had a lovely pair of new Sketchers, just happened to be my size so couldn't resist for £8.

charlies-aunt

Lots of lovely, pretty things to choose from today . . . . .


I was really happy to pick up three blue "Art Nouveau" etched vintage glasses for just a £1 which will make nice sherry glasses and two sweet Victorian Custard Cups for £1.50 which will be ideal for medicinal tots of Calvados


Trying to shed some weight so avoiding the clothes until I get closer to my target and I can reward myslf

Miró

Just missed the bus yesterday so called into the nearby chazza even tho I had been in the previous day. Wheeee! Found a brand new Episode, (House of Frazer I think), cashmere sweater in a toffee shade for £4.99 :j

Rock_Bottom

Mir! wrote: »

Just missed the bus yesterday so called into the nearby chazza even tho I had been in the previous day. Wheeee! Found a brand new Episode, (House of Frazer I think), cashmere sweater in a toffee shade for £4.99 :j

That was lucky. :cool:

Gingernutty

I found a bright red, Regatta waterproof coat in a BHF in West Bromwich for £9.99.

This was about 18 months - 2 years ago.

It smelt strongly of cigarette smoke, the sleeves used to have velcro fasteners, but the previous owner had cut off the velcro and stitched it to her specification and the elastic in the hood had perished.

I decided buy it, clean it thoroughly and reproof it using Nikwax and to fix the hood before having elastic put in the cuffs.

I am terrible at procrastinating.....

....so it was only last month that I cut the hood open, re-threaded the elastic, sewed it back up using double running stitch so that the stitches look the same either side of the edge ( a touch wonky but I'm very proud of my little self) and took it to the tailors last week.

I picked it up today, it looks fabby and I'll get years of wear out of it.

VfM4meplse

Gingernutty wrote: »

I cut the hood open, re-threaded the elastic, sewed it back up using double running stitch so that the stitches look the same either side of the edge ( a touch wonky but I'm very proud of my little self) and took it to the tailors last week.

I picked it up today, it looks fabby and I'll get years of wear out of it.

10/10 for tenacity and upcycling, but there is no way I would part with £10 for a chaz item that reeks of cigarettes and needed work!

Gingernutty

VfM4meplse wrote: »

10/10 for tenacity and upcycling, but there is no way I would part with £10 for a chaz item that reeks of cigarettes and needed work!

Ordinarily, I'd have left it, but it was a Regatta coat in not bad condition.

For me, half the fun of CS shopping is finding something that could use a wash and a bit of TLC and making it wearable.

New buttons, a new hem, shorter sleeves, a quick repair and/or a patch and I have something no one else has.

OK, lots of people have a Regatta coat, but mine cost £20 in total.