What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

2childmum

Primrose wrote: »

I follow this thread with interest but every time I cram my newly ironed clothes in one of our wardrobes (immediately creasing and crunching them up again because they're so full !) I keep telling myself that the only time I should be visiting charity shops in the foreseeable future is to HAND STUFF IN rather than accumulating more bargains.


My OH increasingly complains that his share of wardrobe accommodation grows smaller by the year and he's right! I find that since I retired my need for more formal working clothes has drastically reduced and I live mostly in casual tops and trousers yet it's easy to be tempted by a nice dress "Just in case a suitable occasion arises".

I know what you mean. My lifestyle requires casual, my tastes are far more formal! But as I can never find smart shoes to fit, 'formal' never quite works anyway.

I'm planning on a trip to 2 charity shops I discovered in a nearby town, one of which has everything for £1 £2 or £3 pounds. DS is due back from uni today and is desperate for new chinos (his have split too badly to mend) so I think we need a mother-son bonding session over the second hand rails!

VfM4meplse

I went on an errand to a neighbouring town today for my mum, and of course ended up in a chazzer...purely for book purposes. Yet the 50% sale sign caught my eye. I ended up buying loads of blouses, a dress and a smart woollen jacket (all a want, none a need) from the following brands: Ghost, Per Una, M&S Autograph, Phase Eight, Kaliko, Monsoon and Wallis. I also bought a pair of chazzer skinny jeans (a first for me!) in the right size and length in a brand called TRFDenimRules which I've never heard of before today, but Google tells me is Zara, for £2.25. Total clothes expenditure from this one chazzer: £22.

Last week I bought 8 books. This week it has been 28. There's no more space

ETA: just tried the jeans on. Technically they fit, in a spray-painted kind of way. I'm not sure I'll ever have the nerve to wear them

GreenBitterfly

I'd written my post, and then accidentally clicked backwards.

Yesterday, I bought the 20th Anniversary edition of Dirty Dancing on DVD for £1, from my local Scope charity shop. I've been wanting a copy for a while, but didn't want to pay Amazon/HMV's prices. But I spotted this and it's a better edition than the one in HMV anyway!

I thought the disc was scratched when I was looking at it in the shop, but when I took the disc out at home, it turns out it was the case that's scratched not the disc!, the holder is see through, so it made the disc look scratched.

Gem-gem

Hubby and I went a did a round of five charity shops.
Hubby bought a pair of shoes for £4.
I bought 2 Dvd's for a £1 each.
I also bought a Boofle mug for a friend's bday for £2; 3 Milton brown milk and oatmeal soaps for £7.50

A friend also gave me two Pyrex pie dishes for free, that she no longer uses.

DigForVictory

Family tour of charity shops, markets stalls & for those fed up with it, libraries.
Someone was getting rid of a load of Denby/Langley Chatsworth - 51 bits for £15! I think we'll have Christmas on Chatsworth this year! We spotted a pair of hill boots that look like trainers in my size for £4 - RRP over £250 last year, and just dusty. Time for me to find the spare orthoses & have a Choice OF Footwear!

Husband delighted by two rucksacks (one seemingly never used, one easily restored with a wash & a minor zip fix - both in handy time for son to pick one to take on NCS...

Pollycat - hurrah on nice Denby & may I recommend putting live basil in it? We can't grow it outside as critters get it, and so have a steady marchpast of plants through the kitchen where *we* eat them unto death in Spal Bol and almost any dish with either tomatoes or mince.

Whatever you do, it was clearly Meant to come home with you, so the Right Use will present itself at some stage.

Hobsons_Choice

A visit to Worcester yesterday. Nothing amazing but I did get a pair of (unworn) M&S Cargo shorts/cropped trousers (adjustable) from Oxfam and a lovely White Stuff top in fine cotton with embroidery from Age Concern. Both £4 each. Plus two paperbacks from Barnado's @ 99p for two.

foxyloxy11

Some good find had by all this weekend
I got a nice top for my eldest DD 99p, a new look top for my youngest DD £1.49, a top for me, cream with little blue peacocks on and sleeveless £2.79 and a new purse for £1.99 in a nude/peach,
DH had to make do with chocolate but was happy with that...I find men's things a lot harder to come by. Do you all agree? What are your local shops like for Men?

Primrose

Men, if they're anything like my husband, tend to hang onto their clothes for so long so by the time they're ready to be discarded, you'd be embarrassed to give them to a tramp, let alone a charity shop!

I suspect that if you come across some reasonable men's clothing, it is either because they have drastically put on weight and can't squeeze into it any more or the wearer has passed away.

CathA

I got a backpack/trolley case for my holiday for £6.99, bit more expensive than I wanted to pay but when I googled it they sell for £95!

Pollycat

foxyloxy11 wrote: »

..I find men's things a lot harder to come by. Do you all agree? What are your local shops like for Men?

I agree that the shops are more loaded with women's clothes but I've bought some decent quality shirts (Mantaray, M&S Autograph, Paul Smith, John Rocha, Ben Sherman, Fat Face etc) shirts - both short and long sleeved - from a variety of charity shops.

Ditto men's crops for holidays - Next, Police etc.

Don't tend to look at trousers as he has quite a lot.

Did buy a fab proper Crombie coat a couple of years ago and a Monsoon casual jacket with zip-out padded lining that he wears a lot.