What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

Sayschezza

Eastex dress £1
Mango top £2.50
White denim skirt £1
Pretty tee £2.50

Georgiegirl256

Today from the Salvation Army shop -

A black Karen Millen tuxedo jacket for the bargain price of £2! There was another one there too, but it looked a little bit bobbly....wishing I'd got that too now though.

A pair of jeans, a John Rocha shirt and 2 boucle jackets (one Gap and one make I've never heard of but looked good quality). All for 50p each. A Pierre Cardin mini travel chess set for £1.

Ballymackeonan

Got something I've been looking for yesterday! I got a 1960s dining table a while back in a CS for £25 - because of the design. It's really ingenious, when not in use it's like the old hostess trolleys, but when you want a table you push a button and raise the lower flap while the other one slides over automatically. It just needed a bit of WD40 and a clean up, and I was planning to use it as a sewing table, but then decided to get rid of the existing dining table and chairs, and use this one instead as it's a great space-saver.

Then the hunt for the chairs began, and got them yesterday. Again, they'll need a clean up but the seats are upholstered in just the right colour - four 1960s Scandanavian dining chairs for £20! They're good and solid, identical to some I found on an antiques site which were going to cost £362 including delivery (!)

C_J

Wow, that sounds brilliant. I love it when I find something I've been searching for eventually turns up in a charity shop.

I've just remembered a good website which I stumbled across a while back called Charity Shop Tourism:

https://charityshoptourism.wordpress.com/

I think it might be a bit out of date so I half-wondered if we could start a dedicated thread on this forum just where people could list and rate charity shops by the towns they've visited so we end up with a searchable database (rather than a list of the lovely things they've recently bought). I'd find it very useful when I visit new locations, and between us our visits probably span most of the UK ...... what do people think? Mad idea? Too much work?

Georgiegirl256

I think it's a good idea CJ! How would it be organised though? Because it would just end up a massive thread with loads of posts. That is if you were thinking of doing it on here?

C_J

Sometimes the Board Guides very kindly collate posts into a more organised dedicated thread, such as with the recipe ones. Perhaps if we started a Charity Shop Tourism thread and everyone tried to keep to the same format of posting it might not be too much work for the Board Guides to put it all into a Master Thread as an alphabetical list of towns. I'm not sure. I think zippychick is our Board Guide on here, maybe she'll come along and say what she thinks of the idea.

GreenBitterfly

I meant to add on Tuesday, I went to my local hospice charity shop, and picked up Steel Magnolias on DVD for £1. I thought the disc was a bit scratched after I left the shop, but after wiping it on my leg, it turned out it was just fluff on the disc!

I was also having a nosy overhearing some of the volunteers conversation, as a woman was donating a few bags of things. They were complaining about the quality of the donations, and if 'this lot are the same', they are going to have a word because they are not a junk shop, and it's too much carrying bags of rubbish up the stairs to throw them out.

VfM4meplse

Had a lovely search through 6 chazzers within 200 yards this lunchtime - came out with the obligatory books (including one I'd P'inned to my wish list) and this hobby horse in nearly new condition for £5 (for our princess, of course).

Miró

This week's bargains.....

M & S black Capri type trousers, (knew they would fit as already have them in a sand colour) £1.25 on the half price rail.

HP printer cartridge for my very, very old but trusty printer. Box said use by 2008 but the inner wrapping was still sealed. Probably will not work but at 50p I thought it was worth a gamble when the new ones cost about £18, (if and when I can find them these days!). Both of the above from the community chazza.

Pale green and cream striped Capri type trousers by Jeff Banks 50p from the hospice chazza.

:j

WartimeScrapingofMarmite

Ploughing my way through this thread and loving all your bargains! My 16 year old daughter has wanted a leather biker jacket for ages but wouldn't pay what the high street shops wanted. This week she found a leather Topshop jacket in one of our local CS for £7.50 - exactly what she wanted and when we looked it up online we found it retails at £90! She is now a CS convert. My work is done :T: