More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

MovingForwards

Oooh love a good nose round charity shops!

Picked up two shoe racks for £5 each today

As I am furnishing a flat in a few weeks when I move I will probably be posting a lot in this thread lol

DigForVictory

For someone without handbag software, I have a formidable number of totes etc. The hessian, and the woven plastic, and the printed canvas, let alone the Bags for Life. (Whose? As I must be nearly immortal, or poster-mostly-likely-to-be-entombed by my stash...)

I reckon my role is to even out the odds of such admirably enthusiastic giving-an-appreciative-good-home-to souls like Pollycat & Miro, in this instance!

dragonlily

A couple of buys from the boot fair today:

1. A cylindrical glass vase with rose gold leaf on the bottom half £1
2. Two Starbucks barrel mugs, one red, one white and green £1 each. - I got these as look brand new to make little coffee gift sets at Christmas (or I might keep one)
3. Smirnoff metallic red metal cocktail shaker £1 (matches my kitchen accents)
4. Pumpkin balloon (the sort you fill with helium - and we have a tank) 50p
5. Balloon animal making kit - 50p
6. Sweet cone, with loads of different sweets - 50p for my daughter

Really pleased with what I found

Pollycat

PositiveBalance wrote: »

I like this way of thinking but it's also dangerous...I could see myself justifying any number of purchase this way!

I can justify anything.

From further up the thread:

Pollycat wrote: »

I totally flummoxed my old boss who expressed disapproval at the £60 I spent on a leather bag (less than half price in the sale, I might add).

I told him that it was an investment (it was, I still use it 15 years on and love it) and if we looked at total cost of ownership, if I used it 100 times it would have cost me 60p per time.
However, if I bought a cheap plastic bag for £10, used it half a dozen times and the strap broke, it would have cost me £1.6666 per time.

Therefore, my leather bag was a bargain.

At this point, he expressed his sympathy with my OH and left it at at that.

VfM4meplse

Pollycat wrote: »

I totally flummoxed my old boss who expressed disapproval at the £60 I spent on a leather bag (less than half price in the sale, I might add).

I told him that it was an investment (it was, I still use it 15 years on and love it) and if we looked at total cost of ownership, if I used it 100 times it would have cost me 60p per time.
However, if I bought a cheap plastic bag for £10, used it half a dozen times and the strap broke, it would have cost me £1.6666 per time.

Therefore, my leather bag was a bargain.

Men are cognitively immune to fashion-maths

However, I have many handbags that have cost me a great deal less, and I have used the hell out of day in, day out until they die. I draw the line at £30 (new, leather and from M&S) but have found some much better quality nearly new in chazzers for less than £5, and frequently around the £2 mark.

bobsa1

Please can I join in the handbag chat !!!128092;!!!128092;!!!128092;

It's daughter number 2s graduation tomorrow and despite me having a ridiculous number of handbags I couldn't think of one that would match my pinky red dress. Took said dd to get her nails done and I had a browse in the £1 cs. There I found the exact colour bag in a small handbag rather than shoulder strap style in exc. on closer inspection I realised it was a Tula leather bag complete with dust bag. So off I rushed to pay feeling very pleased with myself.

Then I popped in to the hospice "full price" cs nearby and got dd number 3 some high waisted skinny jeans (she lives in the things like most teenagers) for £2

Despite my frugal cs ways I have spent a fortune today on paying for dd s nails, buying compost and planters to plant the free veg plants I was given and by taking both dds food shopping with me!!!129318;!!!8205;!!!9792;!!!65039;

Frith

Handbag free ;-) in Worcester today.

White Stuff tunic top

Sainsbury!!!8217;s long tshirt - wanted one so I can leave my trousers on the beach and run in the sea when we go on holiday.

St Richards Hospice so had their free voucher and went upstairs for my complimentary cup of tea.

Miró

Mir! wrote: »

An odd thing....called into the BHF shop on my way home and spotted a pair of very nice 'brand new', (according to the BHF label) Hobbs ankle grazer trousers in a stone colour and priced at £19.50. They had the Hobbs swing tickets still attached but clearly had been worn, as evidenced by the creases at the top of the legs and behind the knees!! Very odd. Not that I would have paid that much if they had been pristine anyhoo though.....just intrigued me!

Was in the BHF shop again today so decided to try on the Hobbs trousers, (wasn't surprised they were still there at that price!), cos I love their stuff and they were just the colour and style I like. Fitted perfectly but I noticed that some of the stitching had come adrift on the side zip, (just love a side zip on trousers....much more flattering on the old tum tum than a bulky front zip!). Mentioned the fault to the assistant and she offered to reduce them from £19.50 to £10 so I ended up buying them. The original price on the Hobbs swing ticket was £79 so the reduced price easily fit my criteria of never paying more that 1/4 of what the price would be in a proper shop.

Then I sauntered along to the community chazza and found a very pretty pure silk long scarf by 'Designs on Silk'* in shades of stone and coral pink for 75p. I'm sure I have a coral pink T-shirt somewhere.....

* Cor blimey....just been looking at these scarves online and they cost £48:eek:

Pollycat

bobsa1
Great buy with the Tula bag. :T
Have a fab time tomorrow.

My bargains today:
2 X FatFace long sleeved striped shirts, really good condition.
OH likes this brand and Mantaray.
£1.00 each Air Ambulance.

Sayschezza

Pretty floaty blue and white Per Una blouse. Looks new £4