More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

Miró

Today's purchase comes under the category of 'well, it was only the price of a cup of coffee'! In other words I didn't need it, I just liked it and I was in the mood to buy something. The 'it' being a long, wide scarf with an unusual pattern in shades of navy/wine and burnt orange. Pashmina stylee but completely label-less so no idea of fabric or make but feels good quality and as new. £1.99 in the BHF shop.

DigForVictory

Oh good - someone else who uses "a cup of coffee" benchmark. Although given how much coffee I coax out of waitrose & booths for pennies, it isn't the reasonable benchmark it sounds. When questioned, I've seen coffees sell for £3.50 and bought a (very) few for £2 so when I push the "less than a coffee" line, I'm usually trying to whistle myself past something £3-4.

The Acquisition Committee can be pretty stringent about the Denby though. (Just as well. I am a Denbyholic with very little intention of quitting.) As vices go though, it could all be So Much Worse. I could be buying Costa lattes to the same value with nothing to show other than a saggier middle & appalling teeth!

Floss

DigFV you're obvs a NW girl mentioning Booths - have you seen their change to the free coffee that it will be reusable cups only?

GreenBitterfly

I donated two bags of general stuff to my local(ish) Cancer Research shop, glad it was somebody reasonably physically fit at the counter as one of the bags I think I'd overfilled somewhat. The book section of the shop was pitiful, massive gaps in the shelves, books falling over etc.

The Kirkwood Hospice one was even worse, I think there were books there from the last time I was in about three months ago.

Miró

DigForVictory wrote: »

Oh good - someone else who uses "a cup of coffee" benchmark. Although given how much coffee I coax out of waitrose & booths for pennies, it isn't the reasonable benchmark it sounds. When questioned, I've seen coffees sell for £3.50 and bought a (very) few for £2 so when I push the "less than a coffee" line, I'm usually trying to whistle myself past something £3-4.

The Acquisition Committee can be pretty stringent about the Denby though. (Just as well. I am a Denbyholic with very little intention of quitting.) As vices go though, it could all be So Much Worse. I could be buying Costa lattes to the same value with nothing to show other than a saggier middle & appalling teeth!

Yay...a like-minded cyber-sister!! I've given up on the 'coaxed' coffees from W & B's now you have to buy stuff first and use your own mugs...bloomin cheek! Used to occasionally have a coffee in M & S till I had a stand up row with a trendy 'barista' about my cup of 1/4 coffee and 3/4 tasteless aerated milk a few weeks back. 'But modom it's supposed to be like that'....pfffft! And now you don't automatically get one of those penny sized biscuits...you have to ask for one if you want one.

D for V ......May I ask...do you actually use your Denby, do you display it or is it an investment? Apologies for being nosy!

My local hospice is celebrating being open 40 years today so they are having a little 'do'....will be dropping in to show support and have a nosy in their charity shop on the premises.

dolly84

Floss wrote: »

DigFV you're obvs a NW girl mentioning Booths - have you seen their change to the free coffee that it will be reusable cups only?

Yay to that. I don't buy takeaway coffee but am thrilled about the re-useable cup thing.


Yesterday I bought a brand new soup ladle which will change my life - £1.50, also got DH a FCUK royal blue t shirt in lovely soft cotton for £1 and a pair of next smart shorts in faded red with sailboats on for £2. For me it was a pair of Next parallel leg grey linen trousers for £2.29.

Bogof_Babe

dolly84 wrote: »

Yay to that. I don't buy takeaway coffee but am thrilled about the re-useable cup thing.


Yesterday I bought a brand new soup ladle which will change my life - £1.50, also got DH a FCUK royal blue t shirt in lovely soft cotton for £1 and a pair of next smart shorts in faded red with sailboats on for £2. For me it was a pair of Next parallel leg grey linen trousers for £2.29.

That's one of the things I love about this thread! :rotfl:

I also love people's descriptions of colours - e.g. Miro's above with her navy, wine and burnt orange. I can almost taste them! :rotfl:

Hopeless_Case

Yay to the reusable cups from me too, the waste is the main reason I try not to buy coffee out (unless I’m sure it’ll be in a proper cup). Since the Mr T cafe turned into a Costa, kids in our estate buy coffee on their way to school - and a lot of them just drop the cups too :mad: - and the waste and the litter horrifies me

Hopeless_Case

I decided not to go into any charity shops over the summer as I can manage with the clothes I!!!8217;ve got and I!!!8217;m trying not to spend anything I don!!!8217;t need to, but I really miss mooching around in them - and sniffing out bargains. And you do have to go regularly to find specific things - went back to bar soap last summer and took months of looking before I found a little white soap dish for the bathroom!

bobsa1

Today I got youngest dh (14) some lovely black and white gingham checked Capri trousers. Very summery and looked lovely on. They were pure collection which I know is a good make but I was staggered to see on the website they were £90 I paid £5