What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

Pollycat

Yesterday's bargain was a Fat Face short cardigan with 3/4 sleeves in a lovely oatmeal colour and has some really nice detailing around the neck and above the bottom rib. £2.99 from BHF.

I like this style of cardigan to go with maxi dresses and also on top of sleeveless tunics that I wear with leggings.

Came home from holiday to find my favourite charity shop - our local hospice 'clearance' that I've had many happy bargains from - has closed.
They used to sell books for 25p or 5 for £1 and had a £1 clothes rail.

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The other one is still open so I'll have a mooch round later.

Living_proof

In my local £1 CS I bought a blouse, new short-sleeved smart t-shirt, long cotton jumper, pair of shorts and linen trousers, so £5 spent. I am away to France in a couple of weeks so it will be nice to have a few new-to-me items to wear.

Frith

In lovely Ludlow yesterday, a White Stuff pair of smart trousers for work and a purpley Fenn Wright Manson work shirt.

purpleybat

GreenBitterfly wrote: »

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.

some charity shops I think send a certain amount of for ragging, but from my point of view it would be nice to have a bin of not-too-bobbly clothes that sold for pennies for sew fans like me. I'm sure it'd be thought of as a pain in some shops tho cos having to keep them in a separate rummage bin.

MoaningMyrtle

One of the charity shops near me (a local charity with three shops) has recently had a change in prices. All dresses £4.00, regardless of the brand, there were Whistles, LK Bennett, Peacocks, Primark all the same price. Shoes £2.00, paperbacks 3 for £1.00. Also a rummage basket all items 50p, cardigans, t-shirts etc. Also another 'everything £1.00' at Cancer Research.

Living_proof

There's an evening car boot started up near me and I went along yesterday. A lot of the stalls seemed to be for charity. I was astonished by the low prices. Soap and Glory stuff 3 for 50p or 20p each. Wallis, John Rocha, Authentic tops as new for 75p each. I came away with quite a lot for under £3!

TopsyMum

Living_proof wrote: »

There's an evening car boot started up near me and I went along yesterday. A lot of the stalls seemed to be for charity. I was astonished by the low prices. Soap and Glory stuff 3 for 50p or 20p each. Wallis, John Rocha, Authentic tops as new for 75p each. I came away with quite a lot for under £3!

Oooo an evening car boot sale! What a fab idea! Wish they would do that around here!

My latest find is two lovely cookbooks that have been on my wish list, but I couldn't justify the prices, for 25p each in a local charity shop that has changed their prices on books to all books 25p each! Fab!

kat360

4x girls primark pjs (looked like new) 60p each
1x boys asda jeans 80p
1x Tu boys trousers £1.00
1x bnwt next girls brown cardi £1.10
and a massive kilner jar for £2.10
All from our local community charity shop, I'm waiting for the winter stuff to come in most charity shops. With 4 young kids I find that their chothes don't last very long between growth spurts, so buying from the charity shops are more cost effective.:D

Georgiegirl256

Living_proof wrote: »

There's an evening car boot started up near me and I went along yesterday. A lot of the stalls seemed to be for charity. I was astonished by the low prices. Soap and Glory stuff 3 for 50p or 20p each. Wallis, John Rocha, Authentic tops as new for 75p each. I came away with quite a lot for under £3!

That sounds amazing! I wish we glad an evening car boot, especially with things at those prices! I love soap and glory stuff!

GreenBitterfly

purpleybat wrote: »

some charity shops I think send a certain amount of for ragging, but from my point of view it would be nice to have a bin of not-too-bobbly clothes that sold for pennies for sew fans like me. I'm sure it'd be thought of as a pain in some shops tho cos having to keep them in a separate rummage bin.

I don't think it was clothes they were talking about, but general bric a brac, I sneaked a look at the bags the lady was bringing in, and they did seem general items that perhaps wouldn't be suitable for charity shop selling, like those plastic flower type windmills you can buy at the seaside.

Yesterday, I went to the Oxfam bookshop, and I managed to pick up a hardback copy of the Susan Hill book, Howards End is on the Landing. I was just mentioning to my mum, I should buy a copy, and as it's out of print in hardback, I was eyeing up a secondhand copy on World of Books. But I couldn't believe it when I saw a copy, in the Oxfam shop, it was £2.49, a bit more than my usual budget for charity shop books, but I've never seen it anywhere else in a charity shop, so I thought I best buy it.