What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

DianneB

SusanP, Sainsburys have reduced their royal jubilee cake stand to £7.50, still expensive but I am keeping my eye on them incase they go down again, it's very hard to get glass cake stands from CS thanks to Kirsty Allsop!!

rubytuesday

I think for some of us this thread should be entitled Charity Shop Bargain of the Day!

BitterAndTwisted

Haha. That is so very true. Yesterday I spent my last fiver on a lovely pair of beige linen trousers in the Oxfam shop. The double tragedy is that I'm as skint as a totally skint thing and I didn't really need them, I just wanted them.

I do have some absolutely gorgeous and dirt-cheap summer outfits and there's no flaming summer to wear them at the moment.

Floss2: I might pop round to the rock-bottom cheapo Sally Ann tomorrow and see if they have any wellies in my size that I can afford. I'll let you know how I get on so you can get your own summer togs out of mothballs in good time.......

floss2

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

...Floss2: I might pop round to the rock-bottom cheapo Sally Ann tomorrow and see if they have any wellies in my size that I can afford. I'll let you know how I get on so you can get your own summer togs out of mothballs in good time.......

Thanks...the only drawback is that we are diagonally opposite in location as I'm in that famous Lancashire seaside resort!!

deborah64

Nipped into our local charity shop today and came out with two what look like brand new tops. One was green with a hoop detail on the "v" the label said George and was £3.49, the other an absolutely gorgeous teal coloured knitted short sleeved top again with lovely detail around the neck, this was £3.99 both fit an absolute treat. I am well chuffed as lately our shop has been a bit iffy with the choices, guess its being there at the right time, xx

bossymoo

MIL brought DD a pretty plum cord skirt for autumn, 30p looks new, and DS an outfit also for autumn, jeans, tshirt and la redoute shirt with hood, all for £1.
DD is sorted for next two seasons I'll only need to buy her vests and socks (eek pants next year too when she's a big girl!), all stashed in boxes in top of her cupboard...

Bogof_Babe

Was mooching around a BHF shop today and spotted a stone/beige padded gilet on the mens rail, but I could see it was quite small (well small for most men) so I tried it on and it fitted me perfectly. It was a bit grubby around the collar and pockets, and there was someone's old tissue in one pocket which put me off a bit, but I figured it would come up okay with a good wash. Incidentally obviously that charity shop neither checks nor launders its donations, and whoever donated it hadn't washed it either, so you do have to be careful. I never touch anything that is 'Dry Clean only' because that doubles the cost of the item.

Anyway I'm in a bit of a 'cashflow situation' until next weekend when my savings interest goes in the bank, so I talked myself out of it. Walked around a couple more shops, but kept thinking about the gilet and wondering whether I'd regret it if I didn't go back. I told myself I'd go back, and if it was still there I'd have it because it must be meant for me.

It was and I did! £4.55. Took it home, bunged it straight into the washing machine, and it has come up a treat :T. I was also a bit put off by the washing instrucs which said "do not use detergent", but as I have no idea what the alternative is (aren't all laundry liquids/powders detergent?), I bunged in one of those little laundry capsules, non-bio, and it seems to have survived!

We could branch this thread out by asking what c/shop things you have not bought and then regretted. I still regret not buying a brand new computer wrist-rest for £3, when they are about £15 in the shops for a decent one.

SusanP_2

DianneB wrote: »

SusanP, Sainsburys have reduced their royal jubilee cake stand to £7.50, still expensive but I am keeping my eye on them incase they go down again, it's very hard to get glass cake stands from CS thanks to Kirsty Allsop!!

I know but I LOVE KA so I can't be mad about it! She even sells her own pink glass one in MnS but at £15, bit more than I wanted to spend. Not seen that JS one will have to check, nectar point purchase maybe?! Thanks

loopychriss

SusanP wrote: »

I love Cs shopping, recently been looking for a glass or china pedestal cake stand !

I seem to remember on one of the 'make do and mend' type programmes they made a cake stand from a candlestick (glass or china) and a couple of plates. Basically you glue a plate to each end of the candlestick.... you could even make a 3 tiered one with 2 candlesticks/3 plates. Never done it myself although it's on my 'to do' list one day....

Hope you understand what I mean?!!

dogstarheaven

fozziebeartoo wrote: »

My neighbour works in the Salvation Army shop and they accept ALL clothes, because anything too tatty can be sold elsewhere by the sackful......same with manky old shoes, specialist companies buy them by weight no matter how awful.

But none of the CS shops here (and there are many and getting more each week) would put manky clothes in the shop to sell.

They would definitely go in the rag bag BUT that still raises money for the relevant charity, so any donations can help raise funds.

once i volunteered for a salvation army men's hostel and realised that they had a room where they kept clothes, bedding and toiletries that new residents needed. often, they would come in with just the clothes they were standing in. i donate all my clothes and stuff to their shops as i realised that these ppl just couldn't afford anything...