What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

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Soworried wrote: »

Hi can I join in your thread? I just got my daughter a Chanel handbag for £12.99, she is so pleased with it

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Another handbag find here too - I just bought an italian leather Arcadia handbag (quite large, like a tote bag), in teal and pale grey for £6.99... I bought it just because I liked the colour, and it is leather, but I've just googled them, and similar sized Arcadia bags seem to cost about £150 - £200 new!!

It's made from beautiful slightly distressed/crinkled soft glossy leather, and the lining is perfect (looks unused) - but when I took it to the check out the lad (aged about 17) said 'oh dear, that looks a bit battered!' - just goes to show, we all see things differently!

rubytuesday

I really have to cull my charity shop spending what with that and plants I will be broke soon even if things are cheap!

sairy2005

I bought a lovely 1950s table in the Sue Ryder shop in Kings Lynn for £30. Usually this shop is quite expensive but I thought this was a bargain. :T
This type of furniture was made just after the war when all the soldiers returned and had nowhere to live. My mother had a sideboard (which I now have) of the same vintage.
I have a very small conservatory which we use as a dining room and we have an oval table which is too big for the room. This one is a square extending to a rectangle. I love it.
Now I need some new table cloths as all mine are oval.
Any way another good reason to search the charity shops.:T

EndlessStruggle

I got 2 autobiographies, Gordon Ramsay Humble Pie and Alan Sugar What you See is what you get for 50p each today.

mishmogs

how do all

had my UK camping holiday cancelled due to the rain soaked campsite so caught a ferry to france and travelled through belgium (didnt see a cs there) and into holland and found a cracker in nijmegan (sp?) on 3 floors, dirt cheap and it was brill. really wanted to buy the solid oak table and 4 dinning chairs for 90e but resisted but did buy a poncho, sounds daft but had been looking at them in a cycle shop (I cycle everywhere in the uk) and they were 30e!:eek: anyway this poncho was.....2e WOW and a wooden biscuit press for 1e. This was the only cs I found in holland. wouldnt it be good if there was a register of cs around the globe??

Got 3 good sized pieces of fabric for £3, a lovely french oblong plate with a fluted edge and pretty birds on for £1.49 and a red metal kettle for 99p (which I will use for flowers). a pretty flowered plant pot holder for 99p and of all things a beach chalet money box for my summerhouse for £1.29 - wanted one of these for ages.

am still on the look out for jewellery but its soooo expensive.....

happy cs shopping all..

Uniscots97

mishmogs wrote: »

am still on the look out for jewellery but its soooo expensive.....

happy cs shopping all..

Check out your local Marie Curie shop, I'm a volunteer with them and their jewellery isn't overpriced. They do tend to keep a lot in the back shop (a lot gets pinched believe it or not!). I don't know where abouts you are in Suffolk but there's one in Ipswich and Colchester.

kitschkitty

Our local Marie Curie shop is useless, their stock isn't very good, and a tad expensive (though not as bad as Oxfam) it's one of the very few charity shops me & my mum never find anything to buy in!

For new jewellery our local British Heart foundation shop is fairly good, but 2nd hand is normally rubbish (like the 1 Primark Alice band for 99p I saw when they were sold new in Primark 2 for 99p)!

mishmogs

unixgirluk wrote: »

Check out your local Marie Curie shop, I'm a volunteer with them and their jewellery isn't overpriced. They do tend to keep a lot in the back shop (a lot gets pinched believe it or not!). I don't know where abouts you are in Suffolk but there's one in Ipswich and Colchester.

Hi unixgirluk, ta for the info. althought I am in rural suffolk and as far as you can get from Ipswich, I do occasionally go there so will check MC when next there.

cheers!

rubytuesday

Christmas tablecloth and four napkins £1.99, pretty sheet with rosebuds 99p, hundred bell wind chime 99P, metal bird candle holder £1.49.

MoaningMyrtle

A purple Fat Face cardigan for £4.00.