What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

wintersunshine22

Really happy with my last purchase from CS. I needed a new double quilt cover and found a brand new one for £4.00. It looks brill in the bedroom, now on the hunt for some curtains. Trying to do the spare room up on a very tight budget!

VfM4meplse

I fear I am destined to be a voyeur on this thread forever more (foreseeable, at least), as I'm now going to have to stop spending full stop until I build up a nest. Its great that I've got lots of consumables to run down, and theoretically could spend the next 10 years holed away at home reading all the books I've accrued whilst listening to R4....but chazzer-hunting is one OS pleasure I'm going to miss incredibly.

angela110660

Leather shoulder bag for £3.50. Looks like new and am very pleased with it.

C_J

I had a brilliant day on Saturday, at the monthly outdoor charity sale run by a local hospice. It's a massive event, and very popular (you have to get there an hour early, just to be able to park).

I spent a grand total of £21.50 (which included the 50p entrance fee) and for that I bought all this:

- Hardback book, Jamie's 15 minute meals
- Hardback book, Masterchef recipes
- Hardback book, Wainwright on the Lakeland mountain passes
- a garlic crusher
- an electric can opener
- a set of 12 stainless steel terrine ring moulds (each about 2" high by 2" across)
- two large round clear Pyrex glass pie dishes (nice and deep ones)
- a small hand held Kenwood electric food mixer
- a small electric coolbox which runs off a car cigar lighter. It's about large enough for three big bottles of fizzy pop and comes with a shoulder strap so it's easy to carry. It will be perfect for a forthcoming long weekend away walking in the Lake District with Mister CJ.
- a Moulinex rechargeable hand held vacuum cleaner (perfect for doing the stairs ... it seems very powerful for its size)
- a Remoska!!! It's the standard size one (I already have the grande and have been hankering after the smaller one too, but couldn't justify the expense of buying one)

I have had some excellent bargains from this charity sale in the past, but this is probably my best ever

VfM4meplse

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I fear I am destined to be a voyeur on this thread forever more (foreseeable, at least), as I'm now going to have to stop spending full stop until I build up a nest.

Well that lasted all of 2 minutes

I popped into a local shop after a meeting in a new place earlier ths morning, and came out with, wait for it.....not one but ELEVEN books . Including, ironically:

C_J wrote: »

I had a brilliant day on Saturday, at the monthly outdoor charity sale run by a local hospice. It's a massive event, and very popular (you have to get there an hour early, just to be able to park).

I spent a grand total of £21.50

Where is this mythical Utopia you speak of? :A

C_J

It really is utopia

The sales are held every three weeks in the grounds of a gothic mansion called Joyce Grove in the village of Nettlebed (not far from Henley on Thames in South Oxfordshire). I think it was the childhood home of the Bond author, Ian Fleming, and it was bequeathed to the Sue Ryder Trust who ran it as a hospice for many years. There are rumours that the sales will have to move from there soon (or close altogether, yikes!) as the house is being sold, but for the time being I have a whale of a time visiting three or four times a year. I've never been disappointed.

A blog post (not mine) describes it here :
http://shoffmire.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/nettlebed-and-giant-yard-sale.html

DigForVictory

To my vehement chagrin, my husband has just found a Texier Satchel (with its care & feeding notes still in it!) for a tenner, but I may not have it as he was looking out for one such for the middleson.

<Trying not to pout, stamp & generally behave like a peeved toddler>

Pollycat

DigForVictory wrote: »

To my vehement chagrin, my husband has just found a Texier Satchel (with its care & feeding notes still in it!) for a tenner, but I may not have it as he was looking out for one such for the middleson.

<Trying not to pout, stamp & generally behave like a peeved toddler>

Tell him you must have it!

Far too good to waste on middleson.

VfM4meplse

Pollycat wrote: »

Tell him you must have it!

Far too good to waste on middleson.

Or you could put middle son up for adoption? :rotfl:

Pollycat

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Or you could put middle son up for adoption? :rotfl:

Or keep the satchel and take middleson to the charity shop......