More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

kboss2010

Hi folks!

I haven’t been doing much shopping of late but i fid pop into a local c/c & picked up a barely-worn pair of loakes oxfords �� in my size for £20 (RRP on the box was £100) - they’ll be perfect dancing shoes!

dolly84

Pollycat - yay. Lots more goodies will be jumping off the rails at you now.


Laredouter - the drapey top I got was from BHF so I returned it, there was too much fabric to tuck in neatly sadly, it was a shame as the colour really suited me. I will be on the look out for sage green.


Yesterday I got a pair of new Jasper Conran pj's, the bottoms are plain oatmeal colour with two shell buttons on the waistband and the top is long sleeved in oatmeal, pale pink and a pale aubergine sort of colour stripes, it is a low round neck with shell buttons and the fabric is soooo soft - £2, also a F&F choker neck blouse, cream with floaty sleeves, £2.50


I also saw a gorgeous blouse, dusky pink, sheer with dobby spot (I think that is the right term) fluted sleeves, it was from George and was lovely but the sleeves were a bit too short.

bobsa1

I took two of the Dds to collect some free fabric in a nearby large village (to be used for dd no 3 gcse textile project) and after a bribe of coffee and cake I was allowed into the one and only cs. I got a lovely jersey dress by Masai which appears to be new and paid £4.50 on investigating the website it’s current stock and priced at £71 it’s a lovely cornflower blue so fab for summer. I got dd a pair of top shop chambray embroidered shorts which appear little worn for £3.50 similar are £35! I’ve been wearing my cs purchase from last week of the white Madeleine blouse with grey skinny jeans and keep getting told how smart I look. I’m constantly tempted to blurt out the price of all of my clothing ( jeans were an eBay outlet purchase) but I’m informed by my daughters that people do not want to know and that I’m embarrassing !

Laredouter

That's a shame Dolly, sage green is such a beautiful colour. Hopefully you will be able to find something similar in the chazzas. You never know

Miró

First sashay out since the bank hols, (which I mostly spent in A & E ).

First purchase, from the community shop was on the half price rail and is a Betty Jackson shift dress, sleeveless, boat neck and with foldy/pleaty bits at the waist. It has electric blue flowers on a mink background and I think its a linen mix, (someone has snipped out the labels :mad:). Priced at £3.50. Bit disappointed though as it's a size too big and I bought it thinking I would have to alter it but it is, in fact, rather snug. Will have to dig out the old Spanx and try it again.... Then in the Sue Ryder shop I found 2 pairs of ballet flats - the solid shoe kind not the flimsy Primark kind. A dull gold pair by Shoe Taylor and a turquoise leather pair by Pediconfort, (never hears if them). £3 each and brand new.

Glad to hear Pollycat has her chazza mojo back

P.S. Just found that the Pediconfort shoes sell for £37 and the Shoe Tailor ones are being advertised at £16 on FleaBay.

Owain_Moneysaver

I didn't buy, but I thought of DigForVictory:

Denby Homestead brown (blue inside) half-litre lidded jug / coffee pot. £3 Cancer Research.

bobsa1

There were complaints in the ranks from the DDS that I had actually kidnapped them as on the way home from my earlier foray I decided to pop to the garden centre to use their loo and get some vegetable plants. I did this in the full knowledge that the high end hospice shop was nearby. I got a pair of full length plain navy blue curtains for the dining room which is awaiting a navy and cream makeover for £8 and a couple of things for 50p each to put away for Xmas bingo. 1 was a tiny box with a mini cheese grater and pasta recipes in. Apparently they had been given 500 I’ve got to say they were certainly shifting out of the shop as everyone in there bought one and I also got a small tea candle oil burner thing new with tag also 50p

thriftwizard

Bargain of the century for me! I was in a local charity shop looking for a little black cardi with 3/4-length sleeves. I found a Gaggia Gelatiera ice-cream maker, complete with two extra removable bowl assemblies, for £35. New, they are £335... I've always wanted to try one out but could never afford to spend that kind of amount on something that might have been a 5-minute wonder, plus not many of them make enough for 7. But we're down to 4 now, and the 2 girls are very much into cooking & healthy eating; we've owned it for just over 24 hrs and have made raspberry & mango sorbet, lemon ice-cream, stracciatella, & gin & tonic ice-cream so far! We usually have family over at weekends so won't have to eat it all ourselves, and the ingredients won't cost any more than what the girls already use to make their other fabulous puddings; the eggs, we produce ourselves. And we'll know exactly what's in them, when any member of the family prone to allergies (of whom there are several) appear.

Obviously it's an older model, but doesn't seem to have had much use; the box with the two extra bowls was unopened. It's been PAT tested, and one way & another I'm well-chuffed & having a lot of fun!

ETA: I should add that I'm in the lucky position of often being able to get amazing bargains on fresh fruit & veg, being close to a market that's close to a major port & in a mostly-agricultural area; recent buys have included a whole tray (12 punnets) of slightly past-their-best raspberries for £1 (now jam) a whole box of top-quality mushrooms for £3 (a dehydrator was an excellent investment for us) two perfectly ripe mangos for £1, two ripe pineapples for £1, 3 punnets of blueberries for £1, etc. etc. So for us, ingredients won't cost a fortune.

C_J

Oh, congratulations on the ice cream maker Thriftwizard! I was lucky enough to buy a Magimix electric ice cream maker (not the sort you have to pre-freeze, the all in one sort) for a fiver in a charity sale last year and I use it a lot. Being able to churn a bowl full of gorgeous home made ice cream from scratch in less than 20 minutes is just fantastic.

dolly84

miro - if you were the one in A&E I hope you are OK now.


I was in Bakewell yesterday and saw two lovely things but it is just too expensive there so I left them, I did buy two books however. I am doing the '100 books to read before you die' and I picked up The Woman in White for £1 and the first two Bridget Jones's Diary in a boxset for £1. I won't be buying all 100 books, I will try to get most from the library.