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More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!
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New to this thread but not using charity shops. Got a fat face top with tags on for a fiver Saturday. Ideal for meal out.
I love looking around them. Got quite a few unworn items from them.The Very Right Honourable Lady Tarry of the Alphabetty thread-I just love finding bargains and saving moneyI love to travel as much as I can when I canLife has a way to test you, it's how you deal with this that matters0 -
Husband has been buying art folders for youngest on the "you never know" principle. Listening to the language as youngest exhumed assorted folders was uproarious. And a little worrying - but then I didn't actually believe we had actively breeding mammoths under the pool table.
I believe the raving monster size (I paraphrase vigorously) retail at around £30 new (Himself acquires the good stuff not the overgrown feed sacks) while the altogether more portable A3 youngest wanted (& now has) could have cost him a mere £20 while Himself has a firm line on not paying over a fiver unless the brand name & mark can be texted to me & researched at being 3 digits minimum.
The peace of having the right stuff at the right time!0 -
A day of twos: 2 books @50p each, 2 blouses (one a Betty Jackson Black) @50p each, and 2 large mugs @30p each
Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy
...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0 -
A BNBWTs black envelope evening bag with gold chain by Dune. Just right for cruise evenings. £3.All that clutter used to be money0
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A good buy, but personally I hate gala nights on cruise ships. Dressing up at 6pm for what purpose, exactly? So I can strut around like a peacock-mutton combo? Dress smartly, by all means - but my days of glitz and glamour for the benefit of others is over.Sayschezza wrote: »A BNBWTs black envelope evening bag with gold chain by Dune. Just right for cruise evenings. £3.
#middleagedandproudValue-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0 -
didnt get a chance to look around the charity shops but theres always this weekend !0
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Gradually collecting DGS's next summer's wardrobe, 50p at a time from the local CSVfM4meplse wrote: »…….. strut around like a peacock-mutton combo......
A wonderful description that made me think of the bad old days of "Surf'n'turf" menu items :rotfl:I can cook and sew, make flowers grow.0 -
Sue Ryder had a book sale going on so I picked up Sourcery, Lords and Ladies and Going Postal by Terry Pratchett for 50p each. I love Discworld0
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Laredouter wrote: »Sue Ryder had a book sale going on so I picked up Sourcery, Lords and Ladies and Going Postal by Terry Pratchett for 50p each. I love Discworld
You're not the only one!
Dropped a small bag of donations off the the charity shop today but bought nothing.
Anyone got any halo polish spare?! Debt: £11,640.02 paid in full! DFD: 30/06/20
Starter Emergency Fund (#187): £1000/£1000
3 month Emergency Fund (#45): £3300/£33000 -
The glitz and glamour is for me. I was born a peacock.VfM4meplse wrote: »A good buy, but personally I hate gala nights on cruise ships. Dressing up at 6pm for what purpose, exactly? So I can strut around like a peacock-mutton combo? Dress smartly, by all means - but my days of glitz and glamour for the benefit of others is over.
#middleagedandproudAll that clutter used to be money0
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