More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

DigForVictory

After a mixed day, one altogether brighter. Son has been planning on treating himself to a Hornblower boxed set - ordered it on amazon & today was chivvied into buying it (checked, glorious) from the RSPCA shop & cancelling the amazon order.

Middleson was consulted & is now the proud owner of his own cased dartboard (unicorn teknik cabinet with board, darts, scoreboard wiper etc, I believe) for a quarter of the price of the cabinet alone & Himself spotted & called me to a cache of Manor Green. (Yes, Still More Denby. I've spent decades training them - now my Denbyholism is an accepted family quirk.)

Which not only was wrapped with all the tender love & generous tissue I could wish for but the youngest carried without as much as put-upon look. (I must check he is healthy!) Rousing cheers for Age Concern making sure that as I slide into their demographic, I do so happily.

dolly84

Pollycat - wow to that shirt. Does the air ambulance shop have the original price label on from their non clearance shop? The things I got for £1 the other day still had the charity's original asking price and most were £3.99 & £4.99, it seems common sense to knock them down to say £2 first and maybe get double the money.


Picked up another couple of things yesterday, DD got 2 pairs of black skinny jeans for £1 each, one doesn't fit so will be re-donated. DH got a lovely soft Mantary tshirt for £1 and a Crivit short sleeved cycling jersey for £1.

Pollycat

Dolly84:
Some items do still have the original charity shop price ticket on.
The shirt had been priced at £5.45.

Yesterday I bought a very soft jersey top with 3/4 sleeves in pink and white stripes which will go perfectly with my denim pinafore dress. It's by John Lewis.
Also from Air Ambulance shop so £1.00.
That also had the original price ticket on for £2.45.
I'd have probably bought it for that price.

VfM4meplse

Another good set of chazzer-finds yesterday in the way of 3 books I really wanted to read for a grand total of £1. Also 4 Chinese soup spoons by Villeroy & Bosch for a whacking great 10p each . The closest image I could find online is here, but mine are far more stylised and stand upright.

DigForVictory

A good day & a good haul (yesterday)!
A hospice ship has been revamped & now has less floor area, less display area, & less heaps of cheap stuff, but, despite that, two Denby Dauphine dinner plates and two Colonial Green then hand painted dinner plates. (Not sure that service is ongoing but we've a wedding imperial blue plate - a heart of flowers, our names, the date. These are more generic but not one standard pattern.)

Then the chuck & mount that means the lathe is once again all English parts - we bought a thing that did the job from China but Himself's yearned for the real thing & lo! [Better still, RRP while still made was over £50 & they ceased 8 years ago - and he had change from a tenner.]

As well as a floorboard saw - like every other just short, a handful of assorted pliers, a moulding block (jewellers for the use of), a leaf punch that will mark both metal & leather, a pricking wheel (for sewing leather - think pizza cutter but with spikes), two Archimedes drills, a couple of crucibles for melting precious metals, a pad for welding on and a tin of over 60 assorted needle files all of excellent quality & many modified for specific tasks. My excuse for not taking up jewellery making in the next hour really cannot be I have not got the kit. We also got a 10" ruler which is army marked and very clear metric is not imperial!

I walked away from a heap of Denby sundance as it failed to thrill me - my chaps moved a little closer, in case I had come down with something!

I did acquire two chaps washbags, one a rubber lined fabric drawstring bag with golfers in, one an aircraft freebie with integral hanger hook.

Snaffled a paperback of a loved book which I've not re-read in ages! [Had to dig out the reading glasses & absolutely worth it.]

Also a very Glaswegian mug - comfortably big with Rennie Mackintosh roses - should make an excellent Christmas present!

klew356

I was a bit disappointed in my charity shop wander, went to two in my local town, one had a lot of clothes in it but tbh a lot of it was tesco and asda – one vest top size 12 was hanging for sale for 4 quid, no tags clearly used before. You could almost pick it up new for that price, the books were crap too – the other one was an rspca and it was all old peoples fleeces etc etc - I wont give up il try somewhere else lol. Cant believe I couldn’t even get a decent book! :j

VfM4meplse

klew356 wrote: »

Cant believe I couldn’t even get a decent book! :j

A sad day indeed

Out,_Vile_Jelly

A couple of local finds:

Light grey cord Next skirt with nice belt buckle: £2
Smart black lightweight jacket: £6. Don't recognise the label but seems to be a decent cut.
National Trust biscuit tin with really nice festive owl picture for my mum who likes owls (doesn't everyone like owls?): £1

In the overpriced Oxfam they had a Monsoon top for £10, regardless of the fact that the frilly trim on the short sleeves was ripped and hanging off in shreds!

Owain_Moneysaver

klew356 wrote: »

I was a bit disappointed in my charity shop wander,

That happens from time to time.

I'm just waiting for someone in my size with impeccable taste in tailoring to drop dead (nothing infectious, though) so I can buy an entire rail of clothes from the 99p shop.

Owain_Moneysaver

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

In the overpriced Oxfam they had a Monsoon top for £10, regardless of the fact that the frilly trim on the short sleeves was ripped and hanging off in shreds!

That's gothic, they charge extra for ripped these days.