More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

Magpie100

@bsuije thank you - useful info! We only had an hour or so to shop on Saturday and while I loved shopping with friends I am itching to go back on my own and for a bit longer! :rotfl:

I might be able to pop back this Friday. I don't live in London but I work in central London 4 days a week. Central London obviously pretty much a desert in terms of CS shops, but the outer boroughs are great. I can imagine Blackheath is very good, and also places like Notting Hill/Ealing/Hampstead. I am already stalking the locations of Mary's Living and Giving and the boutique Shelter ones. I'm now very spoilt!

Miró

Magpie100 wrote: »

@bsuije thank you - useful info! We only had an hour or so to shop on Saturday and while I loved shopping with friends I am itching to go back on my own and for a bit longer! :rotfl:

Ooooh this struck a chord with me....have often wondered if bargain hunters prefer to browse and shop alone or with friends/family? (I know DFV has her family/acquisition committee organised into a military stylee operation:D). Think I prefer to be on my own so no distractions or guilty feelings if I need to take my time or try stuff on or make a dash back to pick up a 'second thought'* bargain. I do appreciate the offer of a lift to an out of town new location tho:o Off to the weird 20p shop in Otley this afty as I desperately need some nice receptacles for my ever mounting hoards of strawb and rasp jam. Has everyone else's soft fruit gone mad this year too???


* Ho hum, yesterday I spotted a b/n Rohan knee length, lightweight, raincoat with hood in a khaki colour....priced at £20......mumble mumble mumble.....!!

bsuije

You're welcome, Magpie100!

There is quite a nice route in Notting Hill actually, where you can hit quite a few charity shops in fairly quick succession. Start on Elgin Crescent for a Mary's Living and Giving and Fara, then head towards Portobello Road. Turn left for Cancer Research, British Heart Foundation and (a little further away - junction with Westbourne Park rd) Trinity Hospice. Then come back and turn left at Westbourne Grove. Walk straight and you'll get to an Oxfam boutique (at junction with Denbigh Rd) and another Mary's Living and Giving (past the roundabout with Ledbury Rd).

If you don't have much time, I would miss out the shops on Portobello Rd, but that's my preference (I used to volunteer at an MLG and love them, so always head for those, if given the choice). The Fara shop is very good, though - very well stocked and decent on pricing.

bsuije

Mir! wrote: »

Ooooh this struck a chord with me....have often wondered if bargain hunters prefer to browse and shop alone or with friends/family?

My preference is always to go alone, but need to balance that with my OH's complaints that we don't spend enough quality time together... :rotfl:

The only way to keep the peace is to find CS with lots of bits and bobs so he can spend time looking at those while I look at clothes and shoes.

Bogof_Babe

bsuije wrote: »

My preference is always to go alone, but need to balance that with my OH's complaints that we don't spend enough quality time together... :rotfl:

The only way to keep the peace is to find CS with lots of bits and bobs so he can spend time looking at those while I look at clothes and shoes.

Mine won't even come in them with me, he says they are all smelly. I think he must have had a bad experience once, as they are rarely smelly these days!

Much prefer going it alone, although that's mainly because I know my shopping friends and my sister have quite a limited interest span, although if there's a good stack of DVDs my sister can happily spend half an hour!

Pollycat

I prefer to shop on my own.
That's charity shopping, food shopping and ordinary shopping (looking round TKMaxx, Next etc).

Today I've bought the new Jack Reacher book 'Past Tense' to put away for my next holiday (not yet booked).
It was £1.00 from Barnados but in great condition (not that it matters as it will be battered by the end of the holiday and I'll leave it behind).

And a Per Una ombre cardigan in turquoise shading to teal with a navy pattern on it. £4.00 also from Barnados. Excellent condition.

DigForVictory

Mir! wrote: »

I know DFV has her family/acquisition committee organised into a military stylee operation

It’s the only way to keep three under five safe, so quality family time was a bit disciplined. Mind, a length of packsaddlery meant a parent at each end, one per hame loop & youngest tethered to the middle. Traffic as we crossed the road in Southampton stopped to gawp...

Once trained, we have *tried* to get them to hunt books & DVDs etc, but if they shamble in, reach down likely pieces & ferry messages (why send a text when a 5’8” teenager hovering communicates ‘getting bored now’ so eloquently?) as well as doubling as which shop other parent is in markers & pack animals (I swear feeding them would be simpler if I were allowed to use buckets & troughs), may as well make use of them.

Eldest prowls cs for books without us, youngest (electronically tagged by phone) has learned to research hiding places (libraries, games shops) - these days a cs hunt is less the family trip it used to be. The same disciplines are needed for visiting grandparents alas, after the synchronised diaries, the moral suasion & the comestible bribery....

bexster1975

Hello

Pollycat, I also just bought the new Jack Reacher for my OH for 99p in banardos. He has recently got into them and I have bought the 8 he has so far all at charity shops for less than £1 each.

I got two tops for our holiday at the end of August today. A BNWT Joe Brown white tunic with blue embroidery £10. And a lands end navy with white pinstripes shirt for £4.

Very happy with today's buys.

Bexster

Pollycat

bexster1975 wrote: »

Pollycat, I also just bought the new Jack Reacher for my OH for 99p in banardos. He has recently got into them and I have bought the 8 he has so far all at charity shops for less than £1 each.

Pollycat wrote: »

Today I've bought the new Jack Reacher book 'Past Tense' to put away for my next holiday (not yet booked).
It was £1.00 from Barnados but in great condition

What?
How much? :eek:
I've been done.

I discovered Lee Child early on so eagerly await a new one.
I have to say I'm not sure that I can embrace Tom Cruise as the 6' 5" XXL ex-military cop :cool: but I have the second film (Never go back) on record so will see how we go.
Other favourite authors of mine are:
Michael Connelly (characters Harry Bosch, Micky Haller)
David Baldacci
John Grisham (although he seems to have moved into a more lighter mode)
Jeffrey Deaver (characters Lincoln Rhyme/Amelia Sachs and Katherine Dance)
Nelson De Mille

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2 x small pyrex dishes for 50p (to make Yorkshire puds in for starters Suffolk style)

1 x pyrex souflee dish 50p

A whole jar of dinosaurs for the Zebra childs dinosaur garden £2.50 or if you're 5 then priceless!