What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

VfM4meplse

maman wrote: »

That's interesting but I don't think so, my CRUK regularly has an end of season £1 sale. I'm glad they've decided it's the end of winter!!:D


Have you any thoughts on whether shops are just stocked from local donors? I sometimes wonder whether they just ship in stock for these sales.

True, it might be stuff that hasn't shifted elsewhere - but that's probably because the items are of no interest to the demographic than a reflection of the quality of the stock.

If it was a profiteering company indulging in bringing in cheap goods specifically to bulk out their "sales" - Next springs to mind :whistle: - I would object. But it's for charity

mavvymoo

I cant quote for some strange reason

But yes they do ship unsold stuff in to these shops from all the others in the area.

We have a Sue Ryder near us which is an everything £1 shop and they told me thats what they did.I have also seen stuff in there that I have seen at another shop.

I saw a pair of Red shoes in a local shop and loved them but they were about £20 so didnt buy them.
About a month later that Charity had a jumble sale in our local village hall and the Red shoes were there for a £1

I still have them What made me think was if they had reduced those shoes to say £5 someone would have snapped them up.The charity would have made more money and they wouldnt have had to drive them about 12 miles to our village hall oh well I am not complaining

Mav x

silvasava

DigForVictory wrote: »

Husband has developed a very sharp eye for Denby & strolled out with a dozen Imperial Blue saucers, for £2. Didn't snap up the coffee pot - left that for me to decide it was worth £3.99! Bless the man!

Hope you snapped up the teapot! A spare lid is over £20 let alone the pot!! My Denby is Imperial blue too. It doesn't pop up very often so you do have to grab it. I posted a while ago about the fantastic haul of it I got so now don't look so assiduously for it. Happy Hunting

maman

VfM4meplse wrote: »

True, it might be stuff that hasn't shifted elsewhere - but that's probably because the items are of no interest to the demographic than a reflection of the quality of the stock.

If it was a profiteering company indulging in bringing in cheap goods specifically to bulk out their "sales" - Next springs to mind :whistle: - I would object. But it's for charity

Thanks I was just curious. Where I live many donations seem to be good quality but on the other side of the city (when I take my car to be serviced) the cancer shop often has items that I can't believe come from the local demographic. I've picked up some good bargains there.:)

GreenBitterfly

My local Age UK shop has now a discount shop sign in the window. I stopped donating there because either my stuff sold really quickly, or it's been held back and sent to another Age UK site. I suspect because the books I donate, aren't faded, not visibly creased, they get sent to another site, as the books I've seen in my local shop, are usually quite poor quality. I specifically donated there so the local community can buy the stuff I donate.

Ches

Next trousers BNWT £1, a M&S black jacket £2, pretty scarf £1. Box set of DVD's Coast series 1,2 and 3 for £2.50.

misfire

Wow some fab bargains above, I too love Denby but not the price - found two lovely Denby pasta bowls in a charity shop a few years back but haven't seen anything since. Did you get the coffee pot?

I got a couple of toys for work at 45 and 25p each, absolutely outstanding condition.

Also got DD a Tinkerbell suitcase for £2 in the pdsa shop (which I normally find really expensive) was dead handy for filling up with our shopping as we went to this town by bus (on a bogof ticket deal) so made life much easier getting home.

Lucy5781

Just a nice Super Mario t-shirt for DsS, £1.99 Help the Aged, still had original tags on from Zara Kids but price peeled off, think it was an unwanted gift.

Pollycat

silvasava wrote: »

Hope you snapped up the teapot! A spare lid is over £20 let alone the pot!! My Denby is Imperial blue too. It doesn't pop up very often so you do have to grab it. I posted a while ago about the fantastic haul of it I got so now don't look so assiduously for it. Happy Hunting

I live reasonably close to the pottery and bought all my Greenwich almost 25 years ago from the old factory shop (before they did it up into the Visitor Centre).

Lots of patterns have come and gone but Greenwich, Imperial Blue and Regency Green have stayed the course.

The best Denby bargains I've had are the ones that aren't stamped so unless the person pricing it really knows their stuff, it's usually priced the same as any old pottery.
And I have the Denby book so know the old patterns.

Pollycat wrote: »

Picked up a little dish in our hospice shop this morning for 25p.
Perfect to stand my pepper and salt grinder in on my worktop.

It didn't have a mark on the bottom but I knew it was Denby Daybreak as soon as I set eyes on it.

Pollycat wrote: »

A Denby (Fern range) planter for 49p from Cat Protection.

I have 3 of this size now, plus 2 medium, 2 large, 3 vases and one large vase to display my collection of Mother-in-Law's Tongues and cacti.

Most of this range didn't have the Denby backstamp so a lot of people don't realise they actually are Denby but I've seen them in the Denby Pottery book. Made around 1985 so 30 years old.

Pollycat wrote: »

My latest bargain was a 1980's Denby wide, shallow planter, probably 4 inches high and 10 inches across.

I already have lots of 'normal' planters in this design - all from charity shops/flea market - with cacti in and I'm going to do a small cacti garden in this one.

It cost me £1. I don't think they knew it was Denby as it didn't have the maker's stamp on but I knew it was as it's in my Denby book.

mavvymoo

Just popped in to say I agree with Greenbitterfly We have just had a new age concern shop open in a nearby town and its awful I dont like saying that as its a great cause but everything is so tatty in there and so expensive.
Trousers hung over a hanger so they are doubled up and really low to the ground.No sizes on the hangers so you have to kneel on the floor if you want to look at any (which I dont) :rotfl:

I know someone who donated loads of really good items when they first opened and she said she went in on opening day and nothing of hers was there

Very poorly laid out and no one ever speaks to you if you go in

I think this is one of their 'Flagship stores' So pretty poor really

Mav x