More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

Laredouter

Oh no! I hope you are okay Miro!!

DigForVictory

Miro - hoping you’re better & that colne still has a whisper teapot for you?!

Thriftwizard & C J - just have a wonderful time with home made ice creams & cosseted relatives. I’ll be cuddling my Denby & trying not to snivel as I yearn for the serious ice cream maker but refuse to shell out the over £300 on my dream machine when I spend less than that keeping the laundry going. Some things have to take priority but yowsa well done!

Off topic eldest has new job in telesales and they apparently can cope with him having occasional seizures, so he’a off benefits & shopping new smart shirts & even ties! (He will be marched around the cs community for the ties - I saw one nice brand new one in John Lewis for £39 & have a shoebox full [for when the lads ever decide to cooperate] so he can raid 3 from that (as they were between 25 pence & a pound each) & are all silk...

Miró

Awww...thanks everyone for the concern and good wishes

I just went to A & E to get my swollen foot and ankle checked out as I have a history of flight-provoked blood clots and I did a couple of long haul flights recently. After a day and a half of prodding and poking and stabbing and scanning they decided it's just the remains of the last clot causing the problem rather than a new one! Gotta go back for another scan next week but it's just a precaution.

Pollycat, in the meantime, can I join the 'odd sized shoe club' please??

Spent today faffing about with the Betty Jackson dress I got the other day that was a size bigger than I normally take but was too tight around the posterior, (even with Spanx!). I measured the dress and the lining and there was a 5 inch difference between the two!! I always thought a lining should be just slightly smaller than the garment....not inches smaller. Very surprised...I thought Betty Jackson was supposed to be a brilliant designer...some quality control issues mebbe? Anyhoo, I decided to try insetting a bit of extra lining down each side of the skirt. No lining to hand I looked through my wardrobe and found a heavy cotton skirt with a lining in almost the right colour so I just lopped a couple of inches off and re-hemmed it. Then inserted a strip in each side of the lining. A proper faffy job to do but it's worked and said dress is now wearable :j

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The dinkiest sweetest little pair of childs boots with laces (but only for show) and a zip to actually fasten them on £2, brand new and with the packing paper still in the toes.

Miró

Anyone know of a Charity Shop Shopper's Rehab Centre?? Asking for a friend

Today's canter round the usual haunts found me buying.....

An M & S navy & white, heavy cotton, fitted dress, b/n and does not need altering...yay :j £3 A necklace of what looks like moonstones (fake) in a flowery drop style on a silver chain. £1. An art deco stylee crystal candlestick to add to my collection £2. Also tried on a beautiful black cocktail dress in silk chiffon which was described as being 'medium' and priced at £3. Ha, it was more like a size 18-20. Didn't feel like taking on the challenge of another alterations jobbie so I left it, All from Wheatfields Hospice Shop.

A grey, white and pale lilac heavy seersucker skirt, M & S 'Limited Edition' range. Reduced to £2.24 and b/n, from BHF. Rather an avant garde stylee for me - fitted skirt with a waterfall style frill that goes across the front from top left of waist, diagonally across the front to the hem!! Bit weird but I like it.:p

Also called into the Oxfam shop and overheard the staff talking about the Ted Baker donations of new, end of line garments and leathergoods. Seems like they have just received another consignment of the standard 10 items they are given so I will be watching out for those! From my earwigging I learned that Oxfam are not allowed to advertise any of the TB items on the Oxfam EBay site, they are only supposed to put one item out at a time in the shop and they only give stuff to charity shops that are well away from the TB proper shops.

Then on my way home and walking through the park I found a £10 note on the path. I sat on a bench for a little while to see if anyone came back searching for it but nobody did so........ :j

DFV Good luck to your eldest DS in his new job. :T

tessie_bear

british heart have a few bits half price i got a very nice panel skirt for a pound and some williton cake papers for 50p...i got a lovely sleeveless black top in cr for a pound so a good day hope everyone is well

Bogof_Babe

A Pashma scarf/pashmina in a sort of dusky pink with a muted paisley pattern, 50% silk and 50% cashmere, £1 in Hospice clearance shop. Label says dry clean only, but I washed it by hand very gently in almost cold water with delicates liquid, hung it on the line and it came out fine.

dolly84

miro - some lovely finds there. If you find the rehab centre let me know:D.


Yesterday I bought a BN Crew Clothing classic stripe shirt, it's blue, white and red stripes, slightly fitted and has their lovely long sleeves, on their website these are £49 or 2 for £80, I paid £5. Also got DH a grey and red checked Wrangler shirt for £2. Another stripe shirt for me, this time just a Primark one, pyjama top style in faded red and white, roll back sleeves and oversized, £2, and for DD a BN pair of Victoria's Secret flannel pj's, traditional style in dark grey with penguins on, these are very expensive on the site and I paid £5.

DigForVictory

Mir! wrote: »

a Charity Shop Shopper's Rehab Centre

London zone 1? Not many cs opportunities, I'd have thought but whether that make it rehab or just plain durance vile I haven't figured.

It's the rehab bit that baffles me. All those amazing finds & someone Wants To Quit? When they're are doing a sterling service to the economy, the environment & maybe even setting us a hopeful example. (Hey, I hadn't got around to looking up where Nettlebed Was!)

Miró

:o:o Ermmmm...I don't usually chazza shop at the week--end but it was the local hospice's jumble sale so I had to go didn't I???

Came back with a pair of dark navy straight legged jeans, an MNG (think that's Mango), navy top in a sort of chiffony/cheesecloth stuff with a bit of a frill down the front, b/n. Everything in the clothes section was £1. In the bric a brac I got a load of candles - a box of 8 small pillar candles, a box of 6 straight candles and a large smelly pillar candle in 'sweet vanilla & coconut'. Everything in the b@b was 50p so £1.50 total.

Called into Oxfam to see if they had put out any of the new Ted Baker stuff yet and found a dress - flowery body con scuba material - very nice but a size 1 which is, in TB terms, about an English 6!! Priced at £9.99.