What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

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GreenBitterfly wrote: »

There's been slim pickings in my local Charity shop this year, I've bought nothing at all in the way of second hand goods. However last week, at my local SCOPE, I bought a brand new looking copy of Nigella Lawson's How to Eat for £1, and two rugby league autobiographies for £1 each. The autobiographies (once I got them home) are really foisty smelling, but they were only a £1 each, and I've found rugby league books to be quite expensive when buying brand new from Amazon etc.

A tip I remember from 'How clean us you house' is to put tumble dryer sheets between pages of the book and stick them in a polythene bag. Use 3 or 4 sheets per book.

silvasava

Off to the Hospice shop today with about 8 binbags of clothes that were left from our sailing club charity sale. Most of it really good stuff and some brand new so if you're in my area ladies..........:)

vodkawitch1

My niece is due her baby (boy) in a few weeks and yesterday we found three lovely pairs of dungarees. £4 for them all. this was in a ` Willow ` charity shop.

Pollycat

I've bought a brand new, still in the case Lorus watch - this one:

http://www.loruswatches.co.uk/index.php/products/r2339dx9

Playful childrens Lorus watch in hot pink, set around a high-visibility dial with numeral hour markers.

Not bad considering I'm the wrong side of 60.....:rotfl:

It has a plastic strap and will be perfect for holidays abroad as my watches are decent makes and I don't like wearing them to be ruined by suncream, sand and sweat.

RRP £22.00, I paid £3.00

Apparently, Lorus are part of Seiko.

Lucy5781

Two men's zip up hoodies, small and extra small, for DsS who's now wearing age 13-14 or bigger despite being 10 and a half. Both barely (If ever) worn Primark Cedar Wood State brand for £2.99 each in Barnardos.

Passed his last batch of clothes on to my hairdresser's son who's eight and wearing age 10-11 clothes lol

dragonlily

Love the re-puchasing stories

Penny dropped when I found out that they were my copies as my mum had taken into the CS a couple of days before!

Made me chuckle

Most of my forays to the charity shop have only resulted in donations! I am still decluttering / kondoing. However, I took another pile to the Hospice shop yesterday, which included a really nice parker ballpoint pen that changes to a PDA stick. It was a lovely gift I got but I don't have a PDA and I always found it too big for my hand.

Must have been good karma because I found a lovely slim gold plated Sheaffer fountain pen for £5. Now need to buy some cartridges for it. Also got a Jack Daniels Whiskey Tumbler, a heavy square one for 10p.

I am not buying very much at the minute at all........ Def more going out than coming in!

x

Artytarty

Sharp intake of breath! You lucky thing! I adore good fountain pens.

Gem-gem

I went to the charity shop with my book list today.
Picked up:
James Patterson x 2 - £1.25 each. I am sure that one is brand new.
Trisha Ashley - A winter's tale £1.25
Jojo Moyes - hard back book published in 2016 (published in this edition) 2017 £2
These were also from Scope. Weird how another person who went to scope paid £1 for all their books and The paperbacks in this shop were all at £1.25!!!

VfM4meplse

Chris25 wrote: »

Penny dropped when I found out that they were my copies as my mum had taken into the CS a couple of days before!

Unforgiveable! :eek:

I had a mixed experience at chazzers this weekend. I was out for the day on Good Friday, and suddenly felt panicked when I realised the library I intended to swap a book at en-route was closed (it's usually open on Sundays so I thought it would be open 10am-4pm). Feeling insecure without any fresh reading material to hand, I searched high and low for a chazzer in the area: all but one was shut. Most of the books were trashy (not the usual things I read) but 3 that were worth having stood out, precisely because I already have them . I rummaged around further and found two that I could read: one was fiction and an award-winner, and the other by Paxo. At £1 for each of the books that were the best of a bad bunch, I considered this a chazzer fail .

On Easter Saturday I went for a walk and bought a Richard Wiseman book for 99p; acceptable given that I wanted to read it.

There seemed to be a lot more open on Easter Monday: I was drawn to one I visit when I can, knowing that I would find something I wanted. I did...a total of 10 books, including this beautiful new-looking hardback which I had P'inned when it was published a few months ago:



Then yesterday I was passing another, and ended up buying a BN copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace (it's nearly 1,000 pages in small print, has anyone actually read it?), a brand new looking Simply Nigella in hardback, a couple of medical textbooks and one on criminal law case studies. All very chunky, and well worth the £5 I paid for them.

So a total of 18 books over 5 days, for £14.59. I see the hygge as an investment, as it will help me live in an OS way

KitKatMum2

I found a really cute little Next floral print top for my daughter on Easter Monday for 50p, lovely for spring/summer so I'm very happy with that. Nothing for my son though, I've found no decent boys clothes for quite a while now.

I also popped into one of the shops which sell the children's books for 25p each. I believe I bought 9, despite the fact that we really don't need any more, but there were a few titles I'd been after for a while and all were immaculate - possibly unread. I also popped into BHF and found one of the titles in the series of Mog books by Judith Kerr which we didn't already have. It was 95p which seemed rather steep as most of the shops don't charge more than 50p for kids titles, but when I got it home I realised it had an audio book on CD in the back, so that made me feel a bit better about it!