What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

Lucy5781

DianneB wrote: »

Congratulations Lucy!! You must be so happy!! Enjoy buying pink!!

Yes, thank you. Healthy baby most important but nice to have a change after DsS and DS.

DsS very pleased to be getting a little sister after having a little brother. All still quite a big deal to a boy who was an only child until he almost ten and four a long time expected that to be permenant.

VfM4meplse

Lucy5781 wrote: »

Had a private scan today.... We're having a girl! Guess what I'll be looking for now lol.

How exciting! You are going to have so much fun buying for her, there are always so many more cute outfits for girls in chazzers than for boys. Most of the better / dressier stuff is barely worn because as you know, children grow so very fast. My little niece has loved the stuff that I've got her - the last thing was a Hello Kitty cushioned chair that she is just nuts about. I adore her but feel very sad that I won't be buying much for her from now on. I'll barely see her from next year

I bought a couple more books earlier, to cheer myself up. Didn't work though.

Floss

Vfm maybe as your niece gets older she can come to stay in your new home?

dolly84

Lucy - have fun looking for cute girls outfits.

I'm back on my no buy now so will shop vicariously if that even makes sense.

Pollycat

A Anne Weburn La Redoute very soft, waist length pearl grey cardigan.
Will go with absolutely everything.
The little plastic bag with spare button still attached to the care label.
£1.00 Air Ambulance

Out,_Vile_Jelly

Great haul from my local chazzers (scruffy part of Sarf London):

French Connection grey work trousers: 50p
M&S purple cord skirt: 50p
Blue chiffon scarf with beaded edge for my mum: 50p
Columbia walking trousers: £1
Massimo Dutti orange silk blouse: £1
Cheesy Christmas cardy (reindeer): £4
Cheesy Christmas jumper for my mum (gambolling gingerbread men): £4
4 books for a fiver inc a mint translation of Herodotus and two gardening ones useful for a course I'm doing.

Didn't spot any B&H though. Maybe peak time will be in January?

VfM4meplse

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

4 books for a fiver inc a mint translation of Herodotus

:drool::drool::drool:

Spill the location please? Would like to visit before I leave London next month.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

VfM4meplse wrote: »

:drool::drool::drool:

Spill the location please? Would like to visit before I leave London next month.

Rose Hill, between Sutton and Morden. There is an awful lot of tat, but I have got some occasional steals. Used to be good pickings just up the road along Wimbledon Broadway too, although the BHF and Oxfam are very pricey now.

Miró

[rant] What is it with all the loud 'music' they are now playing in chazzas? I went for a waltz around my local shops today and every blooming' chazza I went in was blasting out Amarillo, Macarena and other dirges. I don't mind some soft background type music tho I would much prefer just peace and quiet. It all seems to be on some kind of loop too so if you linger too long you have to suffer it all twice!! Aaaaarrgghh....just realised it will be Chrimbo carols soon too no doubt!!!!! [/rant]

Didn't find anything today tho I did see a lovely Gina Bacconi(?) dress in a navy and turquoise patterned stretchy satiny material. Had a twisty front with a jewelled clip. Twas a size too big and tho I probably could have altered it to fit I knew my trusty old sewing machine would throw a tantrum if asked to deal with anything with elastane in it! Priced at £7 and as new...but I left it.

Pollycat...I did my stint as a personal shopper today too....an elderly lady came up to me saying 'you look like a lady of taste'....:rotfl: and asked if I could advise her re appropriate funeral wear. Sadly it was to be for her grandson's funeral and she couldn't decide what to wear. The g/s was quite colourful and flamboyant but his father was very straight laced and traditional and she didn't want to upset anyone with her choice of outfit. Together we picked out a navy Berketex jacket, navy skirt, cream top and a discrete but jaunty scarf in shades of navy, cream and plum. I quite enjoyed helping her and she invited me to have a coffee with her afterwards in the next door coffee shop which is also part of a chazza.

No B & H sets spotted today, dead or alive:p

kboss2010

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Does anyone ever actually use anything made by Baylis & Harding?

The charity shops are full of them every January and I wonder if yours was donated after last Christmas, failed to sell, and was put away until the next Christmas event (having subsequently been brought out and failed to sell on Valentine's, Mother's Day and any other event).

Of course it might be even older than last Christmas.

Haha, no, it's the present I tend to get for elderly relatives & ppl I don't know what to buy for!