What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

VfM4meplse

kboss2010 wrote: »

I'm in the frozen North (aka Aberdeen!)

Aberdeen is expensive.

Took a bit of a tour in Scotland last year, I found the chazzers in Inverness brilliant, next Glasgow and surprisingly enough a real bargain in Edinburgh.

oldtractor

my bargain has been giving stuff to the charity shop. I have far too many possessions and its good to give some away.

Pollycat

oldtractor wrote: »

my bargain has been giving stuff to the charity shop. I have far too many possessions and its good to give some away.

I call it recycling.
I buy clothes from a charity shop then when I'm ready for a change, I take them to my local hospice shop.
Last week I took a load of stuff up and I've seen quite a lot of the clothes & shoes I donated on sale in there today.

jk0

This lovely old photo frame for £19.99 from Reading Oxfam:




Not sure whether to keep the existing photos or replace with my own ancestors.

Art_Deco

ilovetea wrote: »

Hi. we look things up on line, and we do have an expert that helps sometime.
The quality isn't always there on some of the fakes either.bad stitching,wonky zips etc.

ilovetea xx

Thanks for the info,:) still think its such a shame to have to throw things away though, I cant bear waste, anyway popped into my local CS and got 4 thriller paperbacks for £1, and a large khaki green bag for work, love that colour and its so hard to find bags in, it was £1.99 so a quid dearer then i usually pay but will get lots of use out of it.:T

coffeehound

I've been looking out for microwave cookware and picked up a Sistema steamer for 99p



Does as fridge storage or lunchbox too. Nice quality stuff from NZ

VfM4meplse

Was getting withdrawal symptoms so popped into a chazzer at lunchtime.

Found Per Una and Planet dresses in my size for £2 each. I wandered round with them for a bit.....and then put them back on the rack because I don't actually need them. Thus fitting in with the not-buying-any-clothes this year challenge.

kboss2010

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Aberdeen is expensive.

Took a bit of a tour in Scotland last year, I found the chazzers in Inverness brilliant, next Glasgow and surprisingly enough a real bargain in Edinburgh.

My OH lived in Edinburgh for a year so I spent ages in the c/s shops there - absolute bargains to be had! I got everything from £400 ski jackets for £5 to £5 hardly worn branded leather riding boots to 90x90 fully lined Sound-of-Music-style curtains for £10! They even have a map of where all the c/s shops are and what stuff they sell, not to mention the numerous cheap antique shops - it really is a fantastic city for second-hand shopping.

You have to know where to find bargains in Aberdeen because antique shops are high-end and overpriced and many charity shops charge far too much! Having said that, when the oil was booming, it was great for new and nearly-new designer stuff that rich folk would buy, stick in their wardrobe then get fed up with!

kboss2010

So that Tiffany-style lamp I saw in a charity shop the other day that I thought I'd missed out on? I went back today and it was there! They must have put it in the back to save space.

So I'm now the very pleased owner of a Tiffany glass up lighter floor lamp for £28. These cost anywhere between £100-£250 new!

Floss

kboss2010 wrote: »

So that Tiffany-style lamp I saw in a charity shop the other day that I thought I'd missed out on? I went back today and it was there! They must have put it in the back to save space.

So I'm now the very pleased owner of a Tiffany glass up lighter floor lamp for £28. These cost anywhere between £100-£250 new!

O.M.G. I am SO jealous!