What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

kboss2010

Several £1 tops - New Look maroon short sleeve top, black & white peplum top, Oasis black capped sleeve top with flowers on the shoulders & a TU flowery t-shirt.

A Laura Ashley flowery peasant top for £3.50, a navy & white striped 3/4 sleeve top for £2 & a red vintage-style photo frame for £1.

DianneB

Jaeger blouse/tunic in a sploggy green and cream with green trim £2 much nicer than it sounds!! Hardback books including 'A life in Ruins' 3 for a £1

Treasurequeen

Went into my local ageuk shop and picked up a vintage design biscuit tin for £2.49, looked on the bottom and it has a £9.50 price ticket from M&S. It is now sitting pride of place on my kitchen window with my other collectable tins. In the RSPCA shop in poole I picked up a glass lemon squeezer for 49p, I have been looking for months for one as I couldn't find one in any shops. So chuffed:j

Pollycat

On Saturday I bought 4 jigsaws - 2 for £1.

And yesterday I spotted a game of 'shut the box'.
https://gibsonsgames.co.uk/games/shut-the-box

Cardboard box is a bit faded but the wooden box and baize look unused.

We used to play in our local pub over 30 years ago and it's a good game to teach small children to count.
I'm going to give it to my friend to play with his grand-daughter.

To go with it I bought a jigsaw - 2 Renoir paintings each 1000 pieces.
I've not looked inside it yet so I don't know if they have been kept separate or are all jumbled up.
£1 for both the jigsaws and the game from Air Ambulance.

purpleybat

was in north middx hospital today with my dad sorting his treatment plan when the tiny charity shop attached to the cancer unit caught my eye.
in it I found 2 wasjig jigsaws, which I love, for the princely sum of £1 each! I thought that was far too cheap so donated the other £4 in my purse. I think I still got a bargain.
has spurred me on to sort some suitable stuff to take with me on Monday, I have jigsaws, books and dvds. I just better make sure I don't swamp them in stuff, I didn't see any storage, but I can ask them about that next week.

Pollycat

Pollycat wrote: »

To go with it I bought a jigsaw - 2 Renoir paintings each 1000 pieces.
I've not looked inside it yet so I don't know if they have been kept separate or are all jumbled up.
£1 for both the jigsaws and the game from Air Ambulance.

Well, yes they have been kept separate, each in a ziplock bag.
There was another bag inside each ziplock which appears to contain all the edge pieces so someone's gone to a lot of trouble - but I'm not going to cheat.

Owain_Moneysaver

Treasurequeen wrote: »

... a vintage design biscuit tin for £2.49, looked on the bottom and it has a £9.50 price ticket from M&S.

Did the M&S price include the biscuits?

Pollycat

Bought 2 more jigsaws from my favourite Air Ambulance shop.
One is of Bodiam Castle, lots of sky and reflection - still sealed.
The other is a place in France, lovely harbour with boats and colourful houses - the pieces are still sealed in their plastic bag.
2 for £1.00.

Plus a lovely East jersey dress in navy with maroon and beige shapes on.
3/4 sleeves and similar to this :
http://www.east.co.uk/ramani-print-dress-green/?src=googlefeed

so probably around £90.
£1.00

Ready to go in the wash, will decide if I'm going to shorten it or leave it as it is.
It's really swishy but will depend what it looks like with my navy chelsea boots.

Miró

Love the East dress Pollycat! What a bargain for £1 :T

Just one useful, rather than exciting, find this week - a jersey, smocky top with a pointy hem in a sort of bluebell blue shade, brand new, on the reduced to £1 rail

Primrose

Three large melamine tea trays for £6.
I am just starting the beginning of another sowing season for my veg plot and these trays will be ideal as a bulk drip tray for all my young germinating pots of tomatoes, courgettes, cucumber etc on my wide bay window sill.

One year I made the mistake of using a large metal tea tray with the unfortunate result that of course the pots leaked when they were watered, and the rust which accumulated on the tray, even with a plastic bag on top of it, damaged the wooden white paintwork on the window sill. I had a repainting job to do as a result so that is one mistake I won't make again! One very happy bunny here - problem now solved, and on sunny days I can easily take the trays out onto the patio to harden the young plants off.