What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

Pollycat

silvasava wrote: »

Haha Polly - you know all about knits then - Crimplene etal!!! Hope you didn't mind me saying as I've just shortened a Jersey maxi dress for a friend. So glad it was useful to you Charlie's Aunt .

Aaaaargh! Crimplene! And it's made a comeback! :eek:
And don't get me started on crepe.

Was shopping with a friend who's also a long-time sewer and we were horrified to see dresses made of crimplene but had a good laugh about the 'old days'.

We always feel at fabric and scrunch it up to see what it will wear like. I bet you do the same.

I actually made my own wedding dress (first time around), not traditional, just a very pretty dress in lovely fabric that I accessorised with shoes, bag and floppy hat complete with fake flowers (1974) and made my 2 bridesmaid dresses (8 year olds).

I didn't mind your tip at all, I meant to say that I was sure that other posters will find it useful.

silvasava

Polly - I always feel the fabric a squeeze it in my hand to see how much it creases (can't stand linen - always looks like a dishrag to me!) I made my wedding dress in '74 too (2nd time round & still got him ) it had a peplum top with tiny buttons down the front and a full length 8 gored skirt - accessorised with a flower trimmed floppy hat! No bridesmaids as there were only 6 of us! Those were the days
Crimplene making a comeback is enough to make you run screaming to the hills lol!!

Pollycat

silvasava wrote: »

Polly - I always feel the fabric a squeeze it in my hand to see how much it creases (can't stand linen - always looks like a dishrag to me!) I made my wedding dress in '74 too (2nd time round & still got him ) it had a peplum top with tiny buttons down the front and a full length 8 gored skirt - accessorised with a flower trimmed floppy hat! No bridesmaids as there were only 6 of us! Those were the days
Crimplene making a comeback is enough to make you run screaming to the hills lol!!

I just knew you would do that.

Apologies for turning this into a sewing-fest thread.

Some coincidences between us there, silvasava.

Cappella

Still nothing remotely approaching bargains in the CS here. Think I'll give them a miss for a few weeks, I've got plenty of summer clothes and don't really NEED anything at all anyway. Just going to be a money saving :A and enjoy my past bargains instead

bobsa1

No cs bargains for me but I am having a wardrobe clear out and as my wardrobe is mostly charity shop bargains I'm very pleased with my current selling total of £95 and more things to sell.
During the process two of my dds have also "shopped" from my discarded items and been very impressed by my label heavy wardrobe

VfM4meplse

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

VfM - do you read all the books you buy as quickly as you buy more? Where do you keep them all? Do you donate them back when you have read them?

I imagine your home being like a college library, surrounded with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, and a portable ladder to reach them all! :rotfl:

I wish! I had started the year intending to read one a week, but I have slipped into my old habits - multiple books on the go

You're right, my home fills up with books so fast I'm struggling to find room for more bookcases. There must be several hundred books in total, perhaps nearing 1,000? Weird considering I usually don't give 2 hoots for material stuff. The ones I find are all fascinating subject matter, its just a pity that I don't have the time to just sit and read and drink coffee all day...that would be my fantasy life!

A couple of quotes I stand by:

charlies-aunt

A random visit to the Sue Ryder shop this morning and was happy to get a large mirror framed with a lovely pine frame for £3
It has a few minor scratches but wax and wire wool will have it looking like new by tonight and it will be a welcome replacement for the gilt framed 70's horror that we inherited from OH's grandparents which has seen better days


.....the Pyrex jug is still eludes me...but tomorrow is another day!

Georgiegirl256

charlies-aunt wrote: »

.....the Pyrex jug is still eludes me...but tomorrow is another day!

Is it a special kind of jug you're after? Surely it would just be as cheap to buy one from somewhere like Home bargains, or even a Supermarket? I've seen them as little as £3 I think.

Smoosh

Popped to my favourite £1 CS this morning only to find it's shut for refurbishment until 14th April

charlies-aunt

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

Is it a special kind of jug you're after? Surely it would just be as cheap to buy one from somewhere like Home bargains, or even a Supermarket? I've seen them as little as £3 I think.

I'm trying to have a buy-nothing-new year combined with trying to go as plastic-free as possible and prefer the more vintage styles that CS get . . . . and the thrill of the chase!