What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

Miró

elf06 wrote: »

I realise it will depend on the style round the boobs but could a piece of lace or something be sewn in? I did this once with a dress for a wedding. It was a lovely dress but just a little too shaped between the boobages. I got a small piece of lace and sewed it in place. Still kept the shape of the dress and the effect but without revealing QUITE so much!

Unfortunately there is also a little 'side spillage' too , (I think in Karcrashian/Daily Mail-speak it's called side-boobage). I'm not humungously endowed in the boobage department by the way...I just have a rather narrow back so it makes the front rather too loose..... iykwim. Thanks for all the suggestions folks

Lucy5781

So pleased to hear good things about Southport and Ormskirk.... Am going up to Burscough next week to see DH's family and no doubt we'll visit both towns!

DigForVictory

Husband currently at the top of my good books when he brought home a Denby homestead brown teapot - a full two and a half pint huggable monster from the local hospice shop.
Surely they needed the tea more than our money? but no, they smiled, and plied him with layers of tissue paper! It is glorious!

Pollycat

DigForVictory wrote: »

Husband currently at the top of my good books when he brought home a Denby homestead brown teapot - a full two and a half pint huggable monster from the local hospice shop.
Surely they needed the tea more than our money? but no, they smiled, and plied him with layers of tissue paper! It is glorious!

It's not a bargain unless you tell us how much it cost.

DigForVictory

The sticky label said £3.
My grin as I cuddled the thing (almost as big as a newborn), priceless!

Pollycat

DigForVictory wrote: »

The sticky label said £3.
My grin as I cuddled the thing (almost as big as a newborn), priceless!

That really is a great bargain. :T

Pollycat wrote: »

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.

I've been on a mission to find a top to go with these ^^^^ trousers.
Flower pattern with a base of very pale pink and lots of different colours including burnt orange, khaki, cobalt blue, teal and bright pink.
I wanted burnt orange and finally found a Next sleeveless top in silky jersey with a chiffon yoke back and front.
Absolutely perfect and only £1 from Save the Children.

Also a Per Una jersey ditsy print summer dress in blue, jade & lilac. £4.24 from BHF reduced from £8.49 (which i wouldn't have paid)

Miró

Pollycat wrote: »

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.

Pollycat, that's just the sort of thing that I do BUT I rationalise it by telling myself I can afford it because of all the bargain buys I find in the charity shops. I called into M & S yesterday and had a look at the autumn/winterwear that they have restocked the store with after the sales ended. Gawd......it's all pretty grim!!!!! Drab colours, nasty synthetic fabrics, odd styles....they really do seem to have lost their way!

Pollycat

Mir! wrote: »

Pollycat, that's just the sort of thing that I do BUT I rationalise it by telling myself I can afford it because of all the bargain buys I find in the charity shops. I called into M & S yesterday and had a look at the autumn/winterwear that they have restocked the store with after the sales ended. Gawd......it's all pretty grim!!!!! Drab colours, nasty synthetic fabrics, odd styles....they really do seem to have lost their way!

Well, the euphoria about the fab trousers didn't last very long.

I showed them to my sister who loved them and asked me if I could get her a pair in her size.
I looked but they didn't have any.
Then she texted me to say she'd found a pair in another town but they were reduced to £7.19! :mad:

Actually I was quite pleased for her as they will be perfect on her up-coming holiday with not a lot of outlay and she'll be able to mix and match tops.

I agree about M&S, the styles seem very boring and I'm a bright colour person so not very much in there appeals to me.

VfM4meplse

I'm reading the latest posts with envy, getting serious withdrawal symptoms. I had a massive fail in Gibraltar: the chazzer behind the cathedral was shut for August . Anyone heading in that direction, be warned.

Time to get out there and start making up for lost opportunities.

kboss2010

Not much to report recently. My fave shop is closed for a refurb so I haven't been in many others.

I was just having a think about how much of the stuff I own has come from charity shops and, looking around the rooms in my house, I'm amazed thinking about how much I have saved from landfill/recycled/how much money I have saved over the past few years from buying from charity shops.

My living room alone, the only new things I have had to buy were 1 lamp, a rug & 1 sofa (I needed a certain size of corner sofa). All of the furniture in my hallway & kitchen is second-hand vintage pieces too.