What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

DigForVictory

GreyQueen wrote: »

I bought them to dismantle for the fabric and trimmings.

Oh thank Heavens - It isn't Just Me!
My sons got very boggle eyed at a couple of summer frocks I bought - they're in my stash basket awaiting shears & will then become gift bags.

Yet noone was startled when we bought a chest of drawers & wellied it to (the original) bits for the quarter-sawn oak. Honestly, blokes...

GreyQueen

I did check the remnants basket at the fabric shop before heading to the Everything 50p chazzer for evening wear.

One of the dresses is one size too small for me, both of them are a style which requires a lady with thinner legs and a bigger chest to carry them off. The green one is a heavy silk, with a green acetate lining, the navy one is a nice quality polyester satin with a polyester lining in black.

It would have cost a damn sight more than £1 to get those fabrics off the roll, plus I've gained two long zips and various decorative features; the green dress is mostly dismantled already.

Some of the cloth will be prepared to be used in displays at the juntique shop, some for other things, known and presently to-be-determined.

If you can sew, the world is your crustacean, n'est-ce que pas? Righty, off to the allotment with my flask, woolly hat, tupperwares of veggie peelings, tealeaves and crushed eggshells. I love it when folk admire the produce off the plot in comparison with their own but don't know or want to know, how I build the soil fertility year after year; bonfiring is only part of the story.

If anyone in the family wants to make me really happy at crimble, the answer would be to give me a load of s**t. As in several tonnes........ :rotfl:

Pollycat

GreyQueen wrote: »

I did check the remnants basket at the fabric shop before heading to the Everything 50p chazzer for evening wear.

One of the dresses is one size too small for me, both of them are a style which requires a lady with thinner legs and a bigger chest to carry them off. The green one is a heavy silk, with a green acetate lining, the navy one is a nice quality polyester satin with a polyester lining in black.

Me! Me! I want the green one!

GreyQueen wrote: »

It would have cost a damn sight more than £1 to get those fabrics off the roll, plus I've gained two long zips and various decorative features; the green dress is mostly dismantled already.

Oh, bum.
It's too late.

GreyQueen wrote: »

If you can sew, the world is your crustacean, n'est-ce que pas? :rotfl:

It is indeed.
I'm just off to cut out a purple tartan jersey skirt.
Quick seam up each side, 2 darts front and 2 darts back, elastic waistband, hem it and Robert's your Dad's brother.

I always look at buttons on clothes in charity shops.
I saw a coat that had wonderful buttons, lots of them (Air Ambulance £1) and seriously thought of cannibalising it but then thought I'd leave it for someone who wanted/needed a coat.

Wednesday2000

I'm going to look in the charity shops again tomorrow. I'm on the lookout for a pink cardigan, some more pretty and warm scarves and (as usual) some more teddies for my dog.

charlies-aunt

Drought season here at the moment, no bargains to report.


I have quite a few bits in my sewing basket to repair or alter so they will keep me busy until I strike lucky!

Amber_Sunshine

Today's gem - Paul & Joe trousers at the 'everything 1€' flea market.

Looked them up online as I had a vague idea it was a pricey brand - 260€ for an identical pair :eek:

I honestly can't imagine paying that much for a pair of trousers!

GreyQueen

Sorry, Pollycat.

Truth be told, I feel slightly bad about dismantling wearable clothes but the point of the Everything 50p chazzer it that it's the last stop for stuff which has gone all around a regional chazzer chain and anything which doesn't sell there, gets ragged.

With that remit, you'd expect a load of dross but I have found some surprisingly fine things there, lurking among the tired primarch, f & f and other cheap brands. It is my favourite chazzer and many's a time I've been complimented on an outfit where the top and bottom only cost £1 together.

DigForVictory

Many years ago, a schoolmate bought a full length wool cat. She's American & feels the cold. Three hundred quid! Me, a year later, hit the Army Surplus & put some REME staybrite buttons on to distract the beholder from its Luftwaffe origins. Then the official breadboards popped into view (a fiver, but made it impossible to wear a rucksack so worth every penny) - I ended up with a unique full length wool coat for £30 & a bit of button replacement.

That it still fits, covers me from nape to toenails & can accommodate a limb in plaster is wonderful. That it reduces my teenage sons to gibbering "Mu-um you Can't wear That!" makes it near priceless.

scottishminnie

GreyQueen wrote: »

If anyone in the family wants to make me really happy at crimble, the answer would be to give me a load of s**t. As in several tonnes........ :rotfl:

Be careful what you wish for GreyQueen. I once asked hubby to bring a couple of buckets of dung from my parents farm for my raised veggie beds. I got home to find 3 buckets all right - that was the 3 of the hydraulic buckets on the front of the tractor. Not the 3 plastic pails that I had meant. Taught me a swift lesson on being specific with hubby I did have bumper crops the following year though!

VfM4meplse

GreyQueen wrote: »

Everything 50p chazzer for evening wear.

Where is this chazzer of which you speak?

I would love to get handier with a needle myself