What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

Pollycat

kboss2010 wrote: »

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.

I'm off on holiday soon and have been rifling through my wardrobe.
Everything I'm taking has come from charity shops apart from 2 dresses - and those dresses were bought at 70% off from Debenhams sale.

Almost all the shirts and shorts the OH is taking are from charity shops.

And we won't be the 'poor relative, look-how-scruffy-those-2-are' either.
My dresses are Mantaray, Monsoon & Wallis and the OH's shirts are Ben Sherman, Fat Face, Mantaray & M&S.

Miró

For the last couple of days it's been 'useful' finds rather than anything exciting.....

Yesterday - a cream, cropped short sleeved cardi from Matalan, cotton and as new - on the £1 rail in the community chazza. Just what I needed to make a sleeveless, low necked summer dress wearable in this chilly weather!

Today - a lightweight peach Rohan "quick drying' T shirt, as new, 99p
And a cream strappy vest type T shirt by 'Sandwich'(?), also 99p.....both from St Gemmas 99p shop in Otley. Just what I was looking for to wear underneath a slightly see-through patterned cream chiffon Ted Baker top previously purchased for pennies from the community shop.

Actually 3 of the chazzas in Otley today were selling off all stock for either 99p or £1.....hope they are just restocking with winter wear and not closing down!!:o Also there is a very odd little shop there that calls itself a re-cycling shop where everything is 20p ...... magazines/books/clothes/old glassware & china/jewellery, cards and other odds & ends.

Miró

*Sigh* so much for the 'useful finds' I was wittering on about yesterday!

Today I called into the big Sue Ryder place where my eye was drawn to a red top with a "Joseph" swing label just peeking out. Brand new with a little packet containing a spare button and some matching thread. Made from pure silk/satin, round neck, sleeveless with slightly cut-in armholes, fitted into the waist with a waistband and with a 6 inch frill (peplum?) in silk/satin with an overlay of 2 layers of chiffon. Fully lined in silk and has a side zip and 3 dinky covered buttons at the back of the neck. So beautifully made...the chiffon even has those hand rolled-type hems. The style is just slightly quirky but not too outrageous which I like. The price was £10 which, I must admit, did make me hesitate a bit. Anyhoo, just been investigating and gently peeling off some of the additional stickers on the swing ticket and the original price was £199 :eek: Subsequently reduced to £113 and then £75. Never had anything by Joseph before....so thrilled!

silvasava

What a bargain Miro - only time I ever see anything near that it's never in my size!! What colour is it? There used to be a Joseph outlet shop near me but it was all chiffony and floaty - not a good look on me

Pollycat

It does sound fab, Miro.

Small bargain today - a white fine cotton (think lawn type fabric) dress/tunic, very lightweight and soft and crinkly with what looks like expensive lace around the bottom.

No make but says 'made in Italy'.
Perfect as a swimsuit cover up around the pool.
£1 in Barnados.

Chris25

lovely wooden cabinet: either a large bedside one or small chest of drawers. It has very pretty proportions, 3 drawers and high legs. The only downside it that it is very badly scratched on one side. When the assistant saw that she reduced it from £10 to £7.

But my bed is high anyway so you can't see the scratches. I might paint it at some stage but it's really pretty and I'm delighted with it's lovely little dovetailed joints.

The dress sounds gorgeous Miro

DigForVictory

Staggered back in from camping holiday.
For some reason my family seemed to think tiny plastic cups provided adequate tea.
So I kicked over the traces & refused to admire Any Castle until I had a decent sized mug.
When I spotted a Denby teapot for sale. In a charity shop, & they wanted £10 for it. However, as a mint example of a modern repro of a vintage teapot (you can only tell if you read the basestamp), I lunged gracefully.
For happy days, I enjoyed every sight, properly hydrated. A Frenchman at the same campsite was delighted at the embodiment of Englishness, and it has made it home safely!
As a holiday souvenir, it's a belter...

Frith

Man United top for smaller son. Not one of those synthetic shirts but a nice cotton one with the logo on. £4.99 from one of the Hereford charity shops.

Miró

Back to the 'useful finds'...... and my campaign to find wearable cropped cardigans or shrugs in order to be able to wear my summer dresses in this dreadful summer weather.

Two cotton Monsoon cropped cardigans ...one short sleeved in apple green and one in cream with longer sleeves with diamante buttons on the elbow length cuffs. Green one was £1.15, cream one was £1.50. Also got a vest type T shirt in a skin tone shade - perfect under a couple of slightly see thro tops....50p. All from the community shop.

Pollycat

DigForVictory wrote: »

Staggered back in from camping holiday.
For some reason my family seemed to think tiny plastic cups provided adequate tea.
So I kicked over the traces & refused to admire Any Castle until I had a decent sized mug.
When I spotted a Denby teapot for sale. In a charity shop, & they wanted £10 for it. However, as a mint example of a modern repro of a vintage teapot (you can only tell if you read the basestamp), I lunged gracefully.
For happy days, I enjoyed every sight, properly hydrated. A Frenchman at the same campsite was delighted at the embodiment of Englishness, and it has made it home safely!
As a holiday souvenir, it's a belter...

DFV
I thought about you the other day.

In Barnados they had a Denby vase from the 'Fern, Moss, Bracken' range - it was Moss design.
I have lots of planters and wide-neck vases in the Fern design that I keep cacti and mother-in-laws tongue in.
It was only £1.99 which is a crazy price for a vase that's about 35 years old and a foot tall.
I suspect they didn't know it was Denby as a lot of my range don't have the back stamp.

I didn't buy it as the shape wouldn't have worked for me.