More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

Pollycat

Got a few bargains yesterday:


a Disaster Designs Heritage and Harlequin long 100% cotton scarf. Pale grey with foxes on, very soft. £1.00 hospice shop

a 100% silk accessorize long scarf in multi coloured wavy stripes £1.00 Cancer UK

a Roxy bucket hat in pale pink with darker pink 'Roxy' words and logo on. Perfect for my upcoming holiday £1.00 Cancer UK

a pair of M&S pale blue jeggings - as new - £1.49.

2 packs of 10 Christmas cards - lovely multicoloured and gold foil partridge and a hare in moonlight (not sure what hares have to do with Christmas but I like them) £1.20 each

half a dozen coathangers 20p and a Jeffery Deaver book - The Kill Room - 80p. RSPCA


Jeffery Deaver book - The Cutting Edge - 50p. Save the Children


A brand-new-in-box china mug from the Lisa Parker range. Called "The Witches Apprentice"
https://www.nemesisnow.com/artists/lisa-parker/lp-collections/the-witches-apprentice/
For my friend's birthday - I know it's not everybody's cup of tea but she'll love it. £3.99.

Magpie100

Owain - it is probably about what they cost new! The trousers were £3.99 which is slightly better. I think that was one of the reasons I hesitated. But, I have used Aldi's sports kit a lot and it is really good. What made me consider it was that I only pop there once a month or so, so it is easy to miss out on stock of this stuff. The cycling jacket was lovely for £8.99, but although I wanted it I still didn't need it!

CollieDog2

Slightly off topic, but where is the poster known as Value for Money? I miss reading of her amazing finds.

Potternerd

BNWT Speedo black swimsuit with legs £10
BN in box Lakeland spiraliser £5 for the courgette glut
Jansport backpack navy with Stars and Stripes pocket £5
Denim shirt dress £4 H&M
M & S silver gilet with detachable hood £4 DH says its like a space suit!
Pretty pink floral specs case £1

Pollycat

A 'Jack in a Pack' waterproof cagoule that folds away into its own pocket.
It's a Peter Storm range so should be good.
It has a concealed zip from and a hood that folds away into the collar.
Checked the elastic bit of the sleeves and it looked clean, that's where a lot of dirt shows up if it's been worn a lot.
£1.00 Air Ambulance.
A woman was looking at it and left it so I scooted over and picked it up.
She followed me round the shop for a while so I think she was regretting leaving it.
Similar on Peter Storm website is £36.00.

It's this one - really nice and bright:



Also, a Glencroft Countryware ladies bucket hat in grey with red/black/yellow/blue checks with padded & quilted inner.
£2.00 hospice shop
£34.95 on their website.
In fact it's this one but with yellow in place of the green, although the website says "Wool blend tweed composition: Wool 25%, Polyester 20%, Acrylic 50%, Other 5%" and mine says "100% wool". :j
https://www.glencroftcountrywear.co.uk/product/poacher-bucket-tweed-hat/

So I'm ready for whatever the British weather can throw at me.

Miró

Pollycat Some great bargains there...so pleased to see that you appear to have your chazza mojo back, (and that your teeny tiny feets are now in 'scooting' mode!!! :j

Miró

CollieDog2 wrote: »

Slightly off topic, but where is the poster known as Value for Money? I miss reading of her amazing finds.

Sorry, no idea why VfM isn't posting on this thread now....she is active elsewhere on the site tho, (posted this morning in 'Discussion').

dolly84

Pollycat - I've had numerous Peter Storm packaway jackets for the kids and have one for myself and they are pretty good, it might just need re-proofing if you have some of the Nik-Wax stuff.


Yesterday I got a plain white round neck t shirt, it's from Jigsaw originally, I am always drawn to stripes, spots and florals but I have a lot of patterned bottoms and need plain tops. I paid £1.99 for this, I also got a plain black Primark cardigan, with faceted black buttons and a scalloped design to the neckline - £2.99, it looks unworn and the sleeves are good and long. I do find Primark sizings insanely random.


At the tip shop I rescued a very dirty Wedgewood Jasperware trinket box in green for £1, I gave it a good scrub and it looks very sweet. I saw a blue one yesterday but it was £2.50 so I left it.

Miró

Had my usual scoot around Otley today. Nothing to be had from the 99p St Gemma's Hospice Shop or the 20p shop but in the BHF shop I spotted a pair of M & S black skinny jeans from one of their 'special' ranges. Nicely styled and gorgeous thick material... priced at £8.99 as they were BNWT. Behind them on the rail was pair of navy jeans by a designer called 'Michelle-Magic', (never hard of 'em). Straight legged and lovely denim, soft but strong and sturdy and with a few discrete teeny crystals on the back pockets. They looked newish if not new and were priced at £2.99. Tried both pairs on and the black jeans were just too tight & revealing but the navy jeans were fab so I happily parted with £2.99. Came home and examined said jeans to find those little circular paper examination stickers were still in place so I am convinced they are new and unworn. Has a squiz ont'interweb and I see that they are a German company and I am amazed to find that these jeans retail at £99 :eek:

https://www.charlesvermont.co.uk/products/michele-magic-jean-8377-straight-regular

DigForVictory

Chorley has had a ‘central’ makeover but hurrah all the charity shops are currently surviving. A Langley teapot (with a deplorably chipped spout) was bundled with two Langley Lucerne cups & saucers - still within Acquiz Committee tolerances though!
Six Denby Memories cups left for the next Denbyholic (committee chairman grousing ‘vile pattern’) & quick phone check revealing I had at least two of the cups, plus the teapot & milk jug already. (I’ve begun a list of acquiz just til I can do a proper inventory - it helps!)
Himself bring a Pearsons aficionado, when we found the tea coffee & sugar jars With New Corks for £2.50 the lot, we swooped. We declined the teabags included & the volunteers binned them sharing our unease about provenance.
We bought a pasta maker a while back (fun for all the family!) & today we found a pasta tree for it to dry on! Never been assembled.
British heart had Denby Bakewell but a £30 bundle has to be Standout Amazing with the chairman at my shoulder, & it wasn’t.
(Booths Americano delicious - some things remain a treat!)

Not sure if it counts, but went to a very high end camping shop & I spotted the Second Hand section - to his surprise, Himself is now two pairs of boots to the better.(One Italian pair new about £150, the other German Goretex lined new around £180 & both at £20 a pair but not that used! Bigfoot Son tried on the Italian pair, gawked at the width & sadly got all his toes in - I may have shod two chaps.) Need to sort insoles & new laces before Himself goes Acton/Glasse - “remove shoelaces, iron shoelaces” on them..