New home- don't know where to start!

jessicaar

Hi guys,

I'm just about to move into my first home with my fiance (we're first time buyers and we're both currently still at home with parents). Thing is, there's such a massive financial outlay at the start and I really don't know where the best place for homey bargains is!

In terms of actual furniture, we've been quite lucky and have most things but it's the little things such as kitchen ware that we're lacking in.

Where would you recommend for the basics to kit our home out?

Thanks,

Jess

keystone

Punt around the pound shops and the supermarkets.

Oh and please, please, pretty please don't be clever with fonts and colours on the forum. I almost stopped trying to read your post halfway through.

Cheers

olias

For starters just look at the value ranges in places like tesco/asda etc - You can usually get tableware for about £10 a set, pans equally cheaply etc etc. TBH, just use your common sense - ebay, pound stretcher, wilkinsons etc etc. Once you have everything, you can replace as and when you have the money with more quality items.

These days, you can kit a house out for peanuts with all the deals available - just as a for example, I bought 4 duvet sets last year through a glitch found on these forums and paid 5 pence each!!!!!!!!!!! Yep - thats 5p!!!!!!!! delivered!!!!!!!!!

Have fun (oh, and the biggest saving is by using the internet - shop around on there first, then buy.

Olias

jessicaar

Olias- that's amazing!

Thanks guys (and KeyStone, I do apologise!)

VfM4meplse

olias wrote: »

These days, you can kit a house out for peanuts with all the deals available - just as a for example, I bought 4 duvet sets last year through a glitch found on these forums and paid 5 pence each!!!!!!!!!!! Yep - thats 5p!!!!!!!! delivered!!!!!!!!!

You were just lucky!

I kitted my first home out (esp the kitchen) courtesy of Woolworths, Wilkos can't match it for bargain factor and generally stuff is so much more expensive now. Realistically there will be some things you can't hang around for in case there is a glitch, but try and hold out for the sales and buy the best quality you can.

jessicaar

Thanks for your advice- much appreciated!

Cash-Cow_3

There are plenty of bargain shops around. I have found that Ikea have pretty good stuff and a reasonable price. I would say from experience that some items in the kitchen you use every day like a kitchen knife you should get a good quality one as a carp one will soon let you down.

Avoriaz

jessicaar wrote: »

....but it's the little things such as kitchen ware that we're lacking in....

Announce a wedding date and compile a wedding present list with all those things on it.

We still use the electric carving knife and a few other things we got given 30 years ago.

fimonkey

Freecycle and gumtree are best if you are looking for free stuff (and if don't mind that nothing matches - isn't that shabby chic?) Also car boot sales in the summer.

If you do arrange to collect something from freecycle/gumtree please do turn up when you say you will. The amount of times I have been messed about by people is untrue!

ian103

we used freecycle to get rid of unwanted furniture, kitchen accessories etc that were all useable just not the latest style / colour. one nice touch was a chap who emailed after collection to that us.

Leif

Charity shops can be quite good, Ikea as mentioned is excellent value, local auctions can be good but tend to be in the week. When my mum died, I gave smaller items away to charity shops (they sold like hot cakes too), and larger low value ones went to a local auction, posh stuff went to Bonhams. Many towns have a cheap 'Asian shop' which sells things like plastic waste paper bins, wooden spoons and so on at bargain prices.