What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

Gem-gem

Donated eight books to RSPCA charity shop today. Three non-fiction and five fiction.

Pollycat

From our lovely Air Ambulance shop:
M&S summer short cardigan in 'nude' 55% linen, 45% viscose. Perfect for wearing with summer dresses.

Vanilla Sands (British Home Stores) navy & white strappy maxi dress. It is the tiered style but has a layer of navy lace between the tiers & I'm going to cut it off at the first tier below the lace which ends just on my knee to make a stylish day dress for my Greek holidays as I like to look nice when we go to restaurants for lunch.
No sewing required, just care with my dressmaking scissors.
£1.00 each.

silvasava

Pollycat - my friend came round yesterday for my opinion on a top she'd bought. It was a pretty lined voile with straps and a frill that went round the top and across the shoulders (off the shoulder with straps IYKWIM)
It didn't look right on her so we pinned the frill to the straps and shortened the top by a couple of inches - made all the difference!!
In the past I've bought items because they were lovely fabric and could be remodeled or made into something else (now called upcycling lol) I've still got a beautiful indigo blue silk blouse that was originally a monsoon wrap dress!

Floss

From the Sense shop,a lovely lined cotton Monsoon sundress for £3.50, a cashmere v-neck top for £3 and from Cancer Research a lacy blue Indigo sweater for £3.50, the exact colour that is in the sundress

Towser

Fantastically good quality hand made curtains. Looked new. £22.50 Dogs Trust.
A bit more than I wanted to pay but expensive curtains always make a room look soo much better.

smudge56

Brand new Gabor loafers. £10. Looked online and they're £79.99 ����

CathA

oldhaggis wrote: »

A few years ago I read in another part of the forum that it is possible to obtain free spare parts from Lego (within reason).

I don't know if this service is still available but the links I noted down at the time were:

http://www.lego.com/eng/service/replacementparts.asp


Tel: 00800 5346 5555 (Free via landline mobiles may charge)
9am - 5pm (GMT) Monday - Friday.

I have not tried it myself but it must be worth a go. Perhaps someone reading this has used the replacement service and can share their experience.

Thank you. I'll let my daughter know. Mind you, I'm not sure if there were bits missing or I'd already used the wrong bits in the wrong place previously! Never been a lot of Lego in our family before, my girls weren't into it. However, if you want a flat pack put together, I'm your woman!!

Lucy5781

Found a lovely pair of Next summer shorts for DS for £1. Label said '2 part set' so I looked and sure enough the other pair was also on the rail :yay:

Gem-gem

Wore my skirt today, that I bought the other week, several people commented on how nice it looked. They were impressed when I said that I got it from a charity shop.

Towser

There are 32 chazzer shops on my usual weekly route. This is in five different high streets. Sometimes less if I have to do something one day. If I could I would do them all weekly sometimes it is stretched to two weekly depending on how much is going on during normal life. Is this too much or Obsessive, what do you think? I don't buy at each one. I am very choosy but have kitted out the family and house.

If I could I'd like to be a charity shop manager, what do you think too?

Todays find Jamie Oliver cookbook Meals in 15 minutes £6.99 Oxfam.
Next boys shorts £1.50 Help the Aged
Johnnie B long sleeved top £3 Help the Aged