What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

Georgiegirl256

A Marine Corps Hohner Harmonica for £4.50. My Dad loved Harmonicas and could play them really well, so when I saw this I just had to have it! It's so cute and I'd never seen one before.

Also got a new look khaki jumper for £1.

Ballymackeonan

I was in the local CS a couple of weeks ago, and the manageress asked me to go through a biscuit tin of jewellery and help her price it. She'd already taken the best (anything she could see hallmarks on) to a local jeweller.

It was mostly a great collection of costume stuff, mainly brooches and necklaces, and as the regulars saw what we were doing, they were buying as fast as we could price! But there were a few older pieces the jeweller had rejected - one was a Norwegian enamel brooch, I'd seen that type before, plus several Victorian pins and brooches, and a Christian Dior necklace - costume jewellery but nice and will go with everything. Plus a couple of really old brooch boxes from long-defunct jewellers! So I took those.

We settled on £70 for the lot, and I headed home and started to research. The brooch is by a Norwegian designer called Ivar Horth, very collectible, and there was one on Ebay in a different colour of enamel with a starting bid of £75.

I've now got a gold testing kit off Ebay, one of the brooches (which I thought was a good one as it was set with carved coral) is 15 carat with a scrap value of about £90, and another admittedly tiny pin is at least 18 carat and worth about £40.

GreenBitterfly

I had a look in my local Scope, which had 2 for 1 on books. There was nothing at all I fancied. But I've taken two bags of clothes from my brother, and one bag of books, DVDs and CDs from myself to Scope, so hopefully someone else will get a bargain!

Spencerx

The trend these days is to use mis matched pretty cups and saucers. I found a lovely local coffee shop which uses these.

VfM4meplse

2 tops for my mum, a beautiful dress for the baby, and another 4 books. All for the princely sum of £10.50.

Miró

Last visit of the week to the charity shops produced....

Black Monsoon jersey top with a lace yoke and shoulders...£1.25 from the community shop

Olive green, cotton twill chino type trousers, brand new...£2 from the hospice shop (short length and I'm tall but look good with legs turned up)

Done well this week!

Georgiegirl256

2 tops off the £1 rail, a vest top and a button down sleeveless blouse. A BNWT pinstripe top shop blouse (retail price £35) also off the £1 rail. A Yale key cover which is also a torch BN for 49p.

Edit: in a new shop I found (a wildlife charity) there were two turquoise chenille throws, priced at £2.49 (I'm assuming each, but one didn't have a sticker on) and I dithered and wondered if I really did need them. I've decided I do, and so am going back for them today. There was also a lovely dark green Amanda Wakeley evening dress for £4.99 there too.

got-it-spend-it

I'm just catching up after a fairly dry CS spell, although my last buy was a rather lovely White Stuff tunic for £3. I love the older White Stuff prints, so very happy indeed with this.

GreenBitterfly

I had a look around Oxfam shop, and the specialist bookshop yesterday, there was nothing I fancied in the Oxfam shop, well there was, it was the Hornsea Fleur flour, tea, coffee, and sugar jars with lids, but I wouldn't be able to carry them back on the train.

The Oxfam bookshop, had Malala Yousafzai's autobiography, but although it look unread, at £2.99 it's a bit much, given it's a similar price brand new on Amazon. I did spot an original Ladybird book that was originally priced at 2/6, and had its dust jacket. It was priced at £1.49, so I bought that, and might try and sell it on Amazon. I also spotted a Doctor Who book, and at 99p, it was a bargain, only when I picked it up, I realised it's the one I'm reading at the moment. If it had been any of the other titles in the series, I would have bought it straight away, as the price was an absolute steal!

kboss2010

A red and white dotty chiffon top for £1, a warehouse black and white blouse for £3 and a pair of Zara flowery print skinny trousers for £1 from Clan Aberdeen. I'm most impressed with the trousers, they're lovely :-)