What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

Pollycat

Mir! wrote: »

Anyone else having a problem with the thread at the mo? I'm in next door's garden due to the stretched posts :rotfl:

OK reading but it's when you start to post a reply that it goes weird.
I wonder if it's the picture in one of the recent posts that's doing it?
It's only been like this for a day or so.

Mir! wrote: »

A couple of my local chazzas have smartened themselves up lately and one now has clothing sorted into colour order and another into size order.

I don't like things arranged in colour order.

I never look for anything in a particular colour, it's what takes my fancy so I like type of clothes - trousers, skirts, tops, knitwear, coats, jackets, dresses - in size order.

Towser

including this beautiful new-looking hardback which I had P'inned when it was published a few months ago:

Hygge

Thanks for the tip I bought mine today from Oxfam £2.99

I will be looking out for more of your suggestions especially the non -fiction ones as I don't do stories. I will work through the thread when I have time.

Cath Kidston bag £8 Cancer Research

Towser

One of my regular chazzas has started folding jeans and casual trousers into tall neat piles which annoys me no end...you can't quickly see the sizes and styles and I don't feel inclined to pull something from the bottom of the pile, probably sending everything flying in the process, and then stand there refolding afterwards.

I don't like things arranged in colour order.

I never look for anything in a particular colour, it's what takes my fancy so I like type of clothes - trousers, skirts, tops, knitwear, coats, jackets, dresses - in size order.

It drives me bonkers. Why do it? (I know why) If I am having a bad day, I can't look. I have to go to the nice Chazzers who have things sensibly arranged in size order.

Oxfam do it in their general stores because I think they think people like to rummage as part of the experience. NO. If they did it in their bookstores what a mess. The bookstores are like copies of Waterstones why can't their general stores be nicely laid out like TKMaxx or another firm that actually wants you to buy stuff.

Like this: Come shop with me at Goodwill on YouTube

KitKatMum2

Have to agree I don't like things in colour order. I never go shopping thinking 'Today I want something in purple', I prefer to just look at what's in my size and see if anything takes my fancy.

After saying I never find anything for my son, I just found a M&S snowsuit, beautiful condition for 50p. Obviously it's the wrong time of year, but it's the size he will hopefully be in next winter. If not, I can always donate it back or pass on to someone else.

Pollycat

Yesterday I bought 4 jigsaws - 2 for £1 from Air Ambulance.
1. New York skyline 1000 pieces
2.4 x 250 pieces spring, summer, autumn & winter. Should have a CD of Vivaldi's 4 Seasons but that's missing
3. Taj Mahal 1000 pieces
4. Peacock in full display 1000 pieces BBC World. I love peacocks, I'm going to have a peacock coffin.

VfM4meplse

Mir! wrote: »

One of my regular chazzas has started folding jeans and casual trousers into tall neat piles which annoys me no end...you can't quickly see the sizes and styles and I don't feel inclined to pull something from the bottom of the pile, probably sending everything flying in the process, and then stand there refolding afterwards.

I think someone has been having a Kondo moment...it works perfectly well when you know what you've got, but less so if you are browsing through unfamiliar merchandise. Displaying clothes in size order is eminently sensible.

Beenie

Towser, thank you for the Goodwill reminder. It took me back to the time I lived in the US and found these shops for myself (we didn't have the sort of charity shops in the UK that we have now) and it was a revelation. I still have some cookery books and a radio bought for a few cents.

whitesatin

I was looking for a nice jumper to wear out this evening, teamed with black trousers. I was amazed to find a Phase Eight jumper, complete with tags, in my size, for£6 in Just Giving charity shop.
Just googled it and it's still for sale in John Lewis, albeit reduced from £69 to £49.
So, I'm very happy.

Primrose

Well done on your J. Lewis find although why anybody would fork out even £49 for a jumper is a complete mystery to me!

Hermia

Beenie wrote: »

Towser, thank you for the Goodwill reminder. It took me back to the time I lived in the US and found these shops for myself (we didn't have the sort of charity shops in the UK that we have now) and it was a revelation. I still have some cookery books and a radio bought for a few cents.

I love the Goodwill hauls on YouTube. The prices are just insane. I am always watching girls showing off really high-end high street or even designer items for a few dollars. Whenever I have seen designer items in charity shops here they have usually been £40+. American charity stores must get huge amounts of donations to be able to sell items that they must know are expensive that cheaply.