What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

Bogof_Babe

I've seen many posts on here about Boden, but have never found anything myself. Today my luck changed at last, and I got this gorgeous top in Age UK for the princely sum of £1.50! It is silk and viscose so I hand washed it, and some of the dye came out, so I believe it is new :j .

http://www.boden.co.uk/en-gb/womens-tops-t-shirts/short-sleeved-tops/wa735-nav/womens-navy-ravello-top

Actually it was a good day all round - I also found two more pretty tops, one of them Per Una, for £1.50 each, and a pair of Denim Co. straight leg jeans for another £1.50 - updated my spring wardrobe for £6 :T . The jeans are a 10 and I usually take a 12, but if ever I had an incentive to trim some flab down... :rotfl: .

Finally, also in Age UK, two brand new looking pale pink bath towels, one Christy and one Rhapsody, for £1 each!

All the above were in Ormskirk, it's a great place for obsessive charity shoppers.

VfM4meplse

Another successful day

Visited a chazzer I haven't been to for a couple of months and bought 6 novels for 25p each....I can't resist anything long / short-listed for a national book award

I also found the following for our little princess: a Minnie Mouse dress for 99p, a Frozen night set for £1.25, and a Monsoon summer dress for £1.25. Plus a Groovy Chick mug for 25p, she can drink her milk from it instead of wrestling me for my Bang on the Door oversized cup. The best thing was this chap doesn't take cards, and I wondered if I had any cash (I rarely use it) in my purse...and found an old £5 note! It had never even occurred to me that I might have one, today was definitely the day to spend it!

She loved her new outfits, and unbeknownst to me tried them on by herself before I had a chance to stick them in the washing machine. The first I knew was when she wandered into my kitchen demanding I cut the tag off!

Lucy5781

DH found an old style Mamas & Papas Lotty Ladybird rocker for DS for £1. Originally £49.99 when sold new.

Gingernutty

I was in the Salvation Army shop in Dudley a couple of weekends ago and they had a lot of BHS and Debenhams stuff.

Mary Portas, Red Herring, Mantaray and Collection labels still attached to the items.

Nothing I needed and nothing in my size though.

maman

I bought a gorgeous, silk chiffon Nicole Farhi skirt in our local children's hospice shop. It was £5.50 but worth every penny.

Pollycat

A lovely Mantaray sun dress, will be great for lunchtimes on our Greek holiday, I like to look nice when we go to tavernas. £2.50.
4 paperback books - fiction including Lee Child & 3 new authors. 4 for £1.00

VfM4meplse

Lucy5781 wrote: »

DH found an old style Mamas & Papas Lotty Ladybird rocker for DS for £1. Originally £49.99 when sold new.

You have set a new standard!

I am going on a chazzer fast for a fortnight...and then I'm gonna go crazy at Nettlebed. I plan to come away with another bookcase at least

DigForVictory

Needed school shoes for the last two months of the academic year. Sorted - and not only were they beautifully polished, with new footbeds from the poundshop, son is delighted. How someone can pay well over £50 for shoes & then charity shop them I do not understand, but £4 later, son is smartly & safely shod.

Wanted? Blimey, where to start - the shelf of 3 books for a pound looked a bit anemic when we'd finished - Himself mopped up the history, I snagged the cookbooks & all the light reading I could fit into the rucksack. (We buy Pratchett by the kilo as all the lads read them & file them 'safe' somewhere...) I then spotted a couple of teapots whose shape rang a bell so I cuddled them as husband went to snaffle a Metro to get them bundled safely. (Denby & early Langley - most satisfying!) We didn't walk back so much as stagger.

Frith

Oooo, Gingernutty - haven't been in Dudley Town Centre for years (Dad used to work there) but have lots of relations in Sedgley. Perhaps I should have a look whilst I'm out that way!

VfM4meplse

DigForVictory wrote: »

How someone can pay well over £50 for shoes & then charity shop them I do not understand

I kind of get this. Young feet do need good quality shoes (bad quality can adversely affect foot development), but then they grow out of them so quickly. So it's better that they hit the chazzer than the bin.