More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

Wraithlady

OH refuses to donate to our local Blue Cross shop as the last time he went in with donations, the volunteer was most ungrateful about accepting one bag and decidedly sniffy about the other, telling him (in most uncivil and patronising tones) that she 'so hoped there weren't any books in *that* lot' (there were)- despite having books on sale.
Needless to say, the next-door Age Concern got the books and we've not been back since

bobsa1

A very quick trip to the local cs whilst running errands saw me purchasing 2 cushions with feather inners. Closer inspection revealed they are current Laura Ashley stock on sale for £28 each (in the sale) mine for £1.99 each. They are in the washing machine currently

tgroom57

Pollycat wrote: »

What? No Denby?

Great finds! :T
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from a couple years back .... pic clickable for more detail

Crockery #1 by Tricia Groom, on Flickr


This month's amazing charity finds were turquoise eyelet curtains and a matching patterned double duvet cover total cost £10. Cheap guest room redo.

Pollycat

Hi tgromm57 - welcome to the thread if it's your first post here. :wave:

Some nice bits of Denby there.
My comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek.
DigforVictory has more Denby than Denby - IYSWIM.

We have lots of discussions about various finds and patterns and backstamps and dates of production.
As well as other great non-Denby bargains that are happily discovered.

DigForVictory

I mildly resemble that remark Pollycat - they have production & warehousing facilities, I just have a stack of boxes...
Just by chance Himself hauled home exactly that Colonial Blue, but three cereal bowls & four salad plates. I have the teapot but not the lid - when we went into the shop um-years ago, Denby had a wicker basket of Colonial blue teapots without lids, and in another corner a smaller basket of teapot lids that fitted just fine, but in no way matched. Whisked into the office for civilized brewing, caused uproar as They Didn't Match (yes, I knew, that was how I had a brand new teapot first quality Denby Teapot for three pounds twenty pence rather than the more usual fifty or so) & so was repatriated.

A Regency Green craftsman's mug there, & I think I recognise the plate but the other cups & saucers lack the cuddle-me trigger I associate with Denby brewing kit. A splendid haul, tgroom57!

My personal haul today, one trangia teapot. Tiny, metal, pure outward bound & Scoutly brewing, and all for 50 pence. The Acquisition committee (recognizing it was not Denby) just grinned vaguely & carried on hunting - not even a warning "Mission Creep?!" which is their normal way of saying "oh ye gods don't...".

DigForVictory

Happy anniversary! Blimey, that's raised the bar (must get himself to read this thread!)

bobsa1 wrote: »

a boring looking toilet bag led to my best find however, it was a free give away develor one priced at £7 on looking inside I found the following all brand new sealed containers and bottles decelor hand cream, decelor misceller water, Elemis face oil and gatineu cleanser these were all full size so probably would cost about £100 to buy them all.

Somewhere there is someone who, despite all the glorious chemistry, has decided this no longer 'sparks joy'. Or is disposing of the evidence.

I refuse to speculate on how you train your husband but if he's got Emma Bridgewater & Indian tree down, you are doing very well. Rewarded with a handsome Tyrwhitt shirt, eh? Here's to another happy 29 years of Nettlebed-ing!

ETA I can only spell Tyrwhitt as an old family joke runs "tyr whitt? - tyr woo!"

Pollycat

DigForVictory wrote: »

I mildly resemble that remark Pollycat - they have production & warehousing facilities, I just have a stack of boxes...

No.
I'm not having that.
I'm not having that at all.

We both know that you have some of your Gran's Denby in a drawer that's stuck.

DigForVictory wrote: »

Just by chance Himself hauled home exactly that Colonial Blue, but three cereal bowls & four salad plates. I have the teapot but not the lid - when we went into the shop um-years ago, Denby had a wicker basket of Colonial blue teapots without lids, and in another corner a smaller basket of teapot lids that fitted just fine, but in no way matched. .

Was that before they turned the old warehouse into the Visitor Centre?

Pollycat wrote: »

Before they re-vamped the old warehouse and when they had a sale on, we used to go out armed with several wet tea-towels and sift through hundreds of items piled high, covered in dust (you could see the sky through the warehouse roof) and choose the best of the seconds which were very cheap.

I've got stuff that - according to the Denby Greenwich leaflet - were never in production, so samples that never made the cut.

This ^^^^ was over 25 years ago.

DigForVictory

Just after it became a visitor centre & they hadn’t quite expanded into scalping punters at every opportunity.
The Denby *is* in boxes, mostly. Mostly.
And there is no way my family will let me have a kiln, well, not one big enough to fire teapots.

Pollycat

DigForVictory wrote: »

Just after it became a visitor centre & they hadn’t quite expanded into scalping punters at every opportunity.
The Denby *is* in boxes, mostly. Mostly.
And there is no way my family will let me have a kiln, well, not one big enough to fire teapots.

So...have you managed to open the drawer?

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Did my first half day at one of our local charity shops yesterday afternoon and came home with a lovely little play microwave, some toy pots and pans and a couple of pieces of play food for the Grandpickles for £2 to go with the big bag of play food I got the other day for £1.50!