What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

strawberryfield2233

Pollycat wrote: »

Hi
What do you mean with 'home'?
Furniture? Pots and pan?
You may get specific answers from people in those areas but if I'm going to a new town or city, I check out Yell.com and search for 'charity shops'.
I know BHF have furniture/home specific shops, maybe there's one in those places.
Our Sue Ryder shop has furniture.
Our local hospice shop has a place on an industrial estate where they sell all the furniture/big stuff they've had donated.

Yesterday I bought a New Look jersey dress in coral, pink and blue tropical pattern with scoop neck back & front and cap sleeves.
Very pretty & summery.

It's a size 16! :eek:
But it's tiny. I measured it against other dresses and it's either wrongly sized (neck & care label both say 16) or New Look sizing is very skimpy. More like a 12 I'd say.

£2.00 so not the best bargain in the world considering the make but it's very 'me'.
If I decide to take it on my upcoming hols, I'll need to chuck out another dress to make room so decisions, decisions. :think:

Thank you for your help Pollycat, I mean small home stuff like china, glass, old bric a brac type stuff. I tend to find more in the more independent charity stores rather than some of the big ones where they seem to focus more on clothes. I had a google but trouble is they dont specify what they sell, hence hoping for advice from those who might know the area, I might have to ring a few up and ask as dont want to my less enthusiatic family along if they only do clothes:eek:

Lucy5781

strawberryfield2233 wrote: »

Not sure where to ask but I know there is a lot of knowledge on this thread!! i am going away this summer and wanting recommendations for charity shops within reasonable distance Canterbury, Folkestone, Ashford etc for home stuff etc rather than clothes. Please move if posted in wrong place thanks.

Not been for a while but the Canterbury town centre ones are mostly on St Peter's Street near the Westgate Towers. Think they're all bigger names, rather than the small local charities but I recall always being disappointed in the clothing choices because they all had so much bric-a-brac so you might be in luck.

strawberryfield2233

Lucy5781 wrote: »

Not been for a while but the Canterbury town centre ones are mostly on St Peter's Street near the Westgate Towers. Think they're all bigger names, rather than the small local charities but I recall always being disappointed in the clothing choices because they all had so much bric-a-brac so you might be in luck.

Thank you Lucy will make sure to check out this area :j

Miró

This afternoon's 'perambulations' took me past the community chazza where I found a dead nice pair of stone coloured M & S chinos on the 'reduced to £1' rail. Fitted perfectly and lovely quality fabric. Noticed that they has been taken up by about 3/4 inch by the previous owner but thought...no matter...they needed to either be a fraction longer for me or shortened to calf length or even just rolled up. Grrrrr...got home to find that someone had used that dreadful sticky web stuff, (is it called WundaWeb or something?) to stick the hems up instead of sewing them and that leaves an awful sticky residue behind if you try to undo it. :mad: Soooooo.... I have a dilemma, do I just shorten the legs to calf length, do I leave 'em as is and roll 'em up or do I try and undo the blooming' web stuff? Does anyone know a way of safely removing that residue stuff??? I do have a bottle of something called 'Sticky Stuff Remover' from Aldi that gets rid of the gunge that labels sometimes leave behind but it doesn't say if it is OK to use on fabric. Starting to wish I had left em on the rail now!!

Pollycat

Mir! wrote: »

This afternoon's 'perambulations' took me past the community chazza where I found a dead nice pair of stone coloured M & S chinos on the 'reduced to £1' rail. Fitted perfectly and lovely quality fabric. Noticed that they has been taken up by about 3/4 inch by the previous owner but thought...no matter...they needed to either be a fraction longer for me or shortened to calf length or even just rolled up. Grrrrr...got home to find that someone had used that dreadful sticky web stuff, (is it called WundaWeb or something?) to stick the hems up instead of sewing them and that leaves an awful sticky residue behind if you try to undo it. :mad: Soooooo.... I have a dilemma, do I just shorten the legs to calf length, do I leave 'em as is and roll 'em up or do I try and undo the blooming' web stuff? Does anyone know a way of safely removing that residue stuff??? I do have a bottle of something called 'Sticky Stuff Remover' from Aldi that gets rid of the gunge that labels sometimes leave behind but it doesn't say if it is OK to use on fabric. Starting to wish I had left em on the rail now!!

Bummer, Miro.

Extract from a post on another thread:

Pollycat wrote: »

I check if it's been taken up. I don't mind shortening hems on skirts, trousers or dresses but prefer to do it myself from the original starting point than from somebody else's higgledy-piggledy attempt.
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Sorry I can't help much re the wundaweb but my gut instinct would be to shorten them properly - unless they're casual enough to look 'proper' if rolled up. Some of my trousers look OK rolled up, some don't.

foxyloxy11

lovely jade Julian Macdonald 'star' body con dress on the £1 rail today!!!! very pleased

saverlou

I visited sense today and picked up 2 tops for a pound each. One was long with a section at the top with blue and white stripes, then a lower longervsection with a blue leaf print on a white background, very summery I thought. The second was a kind of purple feathery autumnal print. I also visited The Salvation Army shop and picked up a skirt with a pocket, I love a pocket! It is orangey floral on a white background with an underskirt. That was 2 pounds. Unfortunately there was no changing room in that particular shop. So hopefully it will fit.

Ballymackeonan

Saturday was great - starting early with the Antiques Roadshow here, where the brooch I'd picked up for £1 in a chazza a couple of weeks ago was valued at £200! Well worth the hours of cleaning it... Plus another which I'd bought at £25 was put at about £150. Then on to some chazzas I haven't visited for months - a couple of audio book sets for £1 each, and a Next Petite jacket for £6 (NWT)

Pollycat

Ballymackeonan wrote: »

Saturday was great - starting early with the Antiques Roadshow here, where the brooch I'd picked up for £1 in a chazza a couple of weeks ago was valued at £200! Well worth the hours of cleaning it... Plus another which I'd bought at £25 was put at about £150. Then on to some chazzas I haven't visited for months - a couple of audio book sets for £1 each, and a Next Petite jacket for £6 (NWT)

Great bargain for £1.
Are you keeping it?

My morning bargain:
pair of M&S men's chinos. Look unworn. Might need taking up a bit. £1 Air Ambulance
Then I went & spoiled it by buying a pair of Per Una trousers - from M&S! :eek:
But they were £14 in the sale reduced from £39.50.

Miró

Pollycat wrote: »

Bummer, Miro.

Extract from a post on another thread:

Sorry I can't help much re the wundaweb but my gut instinct would be to shorten them properly - unless they're casual enough to look 'proper' if rolled up. Some of my trousers look OK rolled up, some don't.

Hi Pollycat

I remember reading your previous post about examining things thoroughly and if something is going to cost major spends then I do do that. Anyhoo, thanks to Professor Google I managed to sort the Wundaweb sticky residue problem, (get a wet cloth, lay it over the residue and iron till the cloth is about dry, then quickly pull the cloth away from the garment - hopefully taking a lot of the sticky with it.) It takes a few goes but does really work*. I'm so pleased to now have a lovely pair of trousers which fit perfectly and also I've learned something too!!

Off to my fave 99p shop in Otley this afty


* I just have to clean the gunk off the iron now :rotfl: