More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

dolly84

I've been away camping for a few days and picked up a couple of bargains. I got an as new Regatta Isovent t shirt in silver grey for £2.99 and a brand new set of Laura Ashley american measuring cups in stripes and spots for £2. Very pleased with the cups so I can make american recipes.

DigForVictory

Son has started work & is thus shattered, so like a loving & foolish mother I drove him in this morning. With husband, so having seen son off, we went on a spree. We did rather well...
Denby Cotswold (dinner plates, tea plates, salad plates, mugs, jars with notched lids - sized for jam as a bit hefty for mustard) 19 pieces for about £15
8 Denby Everyday plae blue dinner plates for £4 (normally I don't bother with Denby Everyday but dinner plates are dinner plates!)
and Denby Ode 3 piece cruet for £2 - truly I was luckier than I deserve!

Plus a bunch of 1950s/1960s stockings (I collect them for their packaging) and even a looks-new Buchanan Ancient kilt by Hector Russell of Inverness for the princely sum of £10. Which looks Even Louder live than on a computer screen!

Himself picked up another mandolin (egg slicing for the use of) nutbrown (est 1932) for 20 pence, a Mason Cash bowl a full 13" across with change from a fiver, a little kilner/ravenhead jar with the loud red plastic band, three sweet nesting lidded rush baskets 6", 5" & 4" & I asked how much some spotted hankies were - not tagged? no - ach, call it 50 pence each? Yes indeedy, one looks credibly like Barbour spotted, the other two frankly bandanna but we love them & use them anyway. (Just the Barbour ones last longer. As we have found out by happy chance & people taking huffs at jumble sales after Christmas.)

The remaining lads idled rather hard & failed to conceal the evidence (despite my training!), but the laundry & washing up were done eventually & still not by me.
So, a good day. I even got to Lidl & got a pair of their running trousers - which I regard as a triumph of logistics over life if not charity shop relevant!

MovingFowards - do please figure posting photos - I'd love to admire the des res on an intelligent shoestring?!

Owain_Moneysaver

DigForVictory wrote: »

jars with notched lids - sized for jam as a bit hefty for mustard ...
kilt by Hector Russell of Inverness for the princely sum of £10.

jars for pickles and chutneys at the dinner-table?

the kilt is a bargain!

Miró

DigForVictory wrote: »

......and even a looks-new Buchanan Ancient kilt by Hector Russell of Inverness for the princely sum of £10. Which looks Even Louder live than on a computer screen!


MovingFowards - do please figure posting photos - I'd love to admire the des res on an intelligent shoestring?!

Ahem....does said kilt fit any of the gentlemen-folk of the family? Curious minds would like to admire said garment on a willing [STRIKE]victim[/STRIKE]...erm model

DigForVictory

Alas the young gentlefolk of the family get awfu' twitchy at cameras (& phones) unless they Choose to cooperate.
Right now, there is a pal of another forumite for whom this amazing colour-bomb is the family tartan, so likely we'll route it over.

A source of mild regret, as one of my lads would look downright cereal packet sensational in a white vest & the kilt, but he's sloped off to his gf to avoid discussions. I may drop her a text pointing out this possibility...

Owain_Moneysaver

DigForVictory wrote: »

as one of my lads would look downright cereal packet sensational in a white vest & the kilt, but he's sloped off to his gf

Kilts are worn at weddings, you know.

DigForVictory

Oh I do, says she grinning with the sort of enthusiasm that has the young chaps nervous.

However the opinion floating at present is that a mere hook & eye to one side, despite the straps & buckles to the other, the view is that this is in fact a woman's kilt. As the drop of 32" from navel to kneecap means the lucky wearer would be a slender-waisted 6 footer.

For some reason None of my chaps will drape it around themselves.
They're all under 21 & I haven't begun to save for Any Wedding yet, but they know kilts are wedding attire too...
As if matrimony were infectious.
(Oh, if only!)

Floss

DfV my DS1 is a skinny 6'plus...and was kilted as a groomsman last year...where was said kilt acquired?!

DigForVictory

The wilds of Blackburn. Have another hard look at the colours in the tartan though - you'll be able to spot him Wherever & even when you'd rather not.
Though to be fair, with the Lovat tweed jacket, the oranges paled & the greens & blues stood out more, fascinating.

Miró

DigForVictory wrote: »

However the opinion floating at present is that a mere hook & eye to one side, despite the straps & buckles to the other, the view is that this is in fact a woman's kilt. As the drop of 32" from navel to kneecap means the lucky wearer would be a slender-waisted 6 footer.

Can't you tell if a kilt is for a man or woman by the way it fastens?? E.g. for a woman the top apron would fasten on the left side? Right side for a chap. Like wot a shirt does...sort of?