What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

Biggles

DigForVictory wrote: »

Then the official breadboards popped into view (a fiver, but made it impossible to wear a rucksack so worth every penny)

Sorry - breadboards?

dolly84

Amber_Sunshine wrote: »

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!

Well done you.

GreyQueen wrote: »

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.

Remember the 3 R's - Re-use, Recycle, Reduce. That's what you are doing.

DigForVictory wrote: »

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.

:rotfl:This weekend I wore a denim skirt with a pair of thick tights, later in the day I wanted to go for a long walk with the family and the dog to the woods, it was cold so I put a pair of chocolate brown knee length thick socks over my tights and put my walking boots on. My feet were warm and I wasn't ruining my tights. The kids, particularly 13 yo DD were horrified and said I looked like Miss Trunchbull (I think that's right) from Matilda.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

GreyQueen wrote: »

many's a time I've been complimented on an outfit where the top and bottom only cost £1 together.

I would be so excited at my bargainous outfit I would blurt out the cost before I'd even been complimented.

VfM4meplse

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

I would be so excited at my bargainous outfit I would blurt out the cost before I'd even been complimented.

The trick is to smile mysterously whilst you rock chazzer-chic

Wednesday2000

I didn't find anything in the £1 shop today!:(

I did buy a couple of nice scarves in the Spitalfields charity shop, it's the first time I have bought anything there instead of just walking round and back out the door.:D

It's not as cheap there and the two scarves cost £6. They were pretty though and I will need them in the coming months.:A

DigForVictory

Biggles wrote: »

Sorry - breadboards?

I should apologise - military epaulettes (mine are with the braid but without the fringing - they don't look like they've escaped from a cruise ship or pantomime costume but are rather ready to take the salute.)

I do enjoy making the livestock cringe, but on my terms. If I'm warm & comfortable, they can pretty much whistle. If they have more-or-less reasonable grounds for wincing (how was I to realise the youngest had regurgitated breakfast down my back? Or that yoghurt & baby rice in pink & orange on navy was just wrong?) then I will cooperate. Eldest crooned to the baby, middleson peered into 'the ironing basket' (clean, dry, wrong floor) & handed me a sleeve of his father's Guernsey. More civilised times, I get loomed over now.

GreyQueen

DigForVictory, when my Dad was a teenage farm labourer in the 1950s his nickname (everyone had to have a nickname) was Nato. Due to apparel derived entirely from the army surplus of various nations.

Ah, those were the golden ages for army surplus, we've still got some of those grey wool army blankets. And an EPNS spoon with a prison logo on. No one has been incarcerated, we must've got it from a jumbly somewhere.......

The Everything 50p Chazzer is, alas, nowhere near Lunnon Town/ nor out Essex way. I'm a bit cagey about my geographic whereabouts online, but I can confirm that to you. Think of it as a bit like ShangriLa........... it's out there, but you'll (probably) never find it. Sorry. But sewing is a worthwhile pastime and very rewarding.

Yesterday I bought a wreath from a chazzer. No one has passed away, it was a twig wreath which was wanted for the basis of a christmas wreath, I have been searching for a few days. £1. It was slightly too big and slightly wonky but I'm not afraid of basketry.

Chucked it in the bath to soak in cold water, was able to unwrap the twiggy bit spiralling around it and then cinch the wreath bit smaller and tighter (secured with twisty ties for a couple of hours while it dried in the new shape) and left the twiny bit soaking until I was ready to re-wrap it.

Bath tub is a mess but I wasn't minded to clean in at 10 pm last night, I'd pass for a proper sloven if you walked in there right now.

Wreath will be decorated with wombled pine cones, 5p baubles from the chazzer and ribbons from the stash. I can see it in my mind's eye and it'll be fantabulous.:p:D

Lucy5781

Traversed the charity shops oon the high street near where I used to work after going for my 16wk antenatal appt.

Rather gutted to find half of them no longer bother with children's clothes as there's 'No call for it ' up there (not surprised it's semi yummy mummy territory in upper North London and they all buy brand new) where as here they go through loads of it!!

Did however find a gorgeous white Mama's & Papas 0-3 month snow suit with thin flannel type lining rather than fleece for £2 In All Aboard. No.2 is due in April so weather could be anything!

Miró

Today was my day for finding a couple of things that have been on my shopping list for ages but have always eluded me till now :j

First was a plain, good quality black cardigan that I have been looking for to wear with a few sleeveless/short sleeved fitted dresses so I can wear them thro winter. First one I found was an M & S cashmere edge to edge cardi priced at £6.99 in the BHF shop....was tempted as was beautifully soft till I notices some bobbling on the sleeves and down the sides - I left it! The second chazza I went in was the £1 Mind clearance shop and they had a nice Debenhams black cardi in very good condition so I snapped that up sharpish.

A few weeks ago I was washing up in a rush and smashed the glass liner to my cafetiere. The only place I could find a replacement wanted £19.95 for a new one! I knew I had often seen complete cafetieres in chazza shops before now so thought I would wait a bit. Ta da....got one today for £1.50....so pleased

Also, in the St Gemma's 99p shop I found a very nice quality, (makers label removed), evening top with foldy/drapey bits at the front and with an attached camisole thing underneath in the same dull coppery sort of lame fabric, (not selling it very well but it looks great on!). Will go perfectly with a calf length pure silk, floaty Monsoon skirt in shades of green, rust & gold that I got from a chazza yonks ago. Just right for ermmm....(insert that C word....!)

silvasava

Miro - I've just sent a cafettiere to the CS as the handle was broken but the Boden liner was perfect!