More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

DigForVictory

That's how we pronounce pancheon, too - and blimey the records do have a few variants but the academics spell it that way.

Yes, proper old (tigging heavy!) & carried home nested in nearly every squishy thing in the boot of my car (short of wrapping a son) around it. (My BOB was nearly opened & raided til I pointed out it would wedge beautifully as was.)

No base stamp - simple local pot made for local use. (We commissioned one a few years back when Himself was in funds and the lovely bloke kept us in touch with the research build - a Lot of clay goes in - and then of course you have to hope it dries & fires whole. He's now making them for reenactors etc at £80 a time and I do rather wonder how he ships them, as they are sound solid chunks of earthenware.)

He bought it, fingers politely clamped around it even as they locked the door on the shop - the lady chortled gently as I appeared waving treasury notes, (& I would have shoved them through the letter flap had she not preferred to admit me) enjoying two people nearly fizzy with delight. He's not spent 8 years looking to find & shamble off. He used the mobile (Gadstrewth!) to bid me come - this from a chap who frankly prefers sending a lad, to trying to get big fingers to work little buttons especially with one hand carefully clamped on lip of Grail...

I must get the heating going so he can clean it to his standards (picky mortal) & get bread making with it!

Pollycat

DigForVictory wrote: »

That's how we pronounce pancheon, too - and blimey the records do have a few variants but the academics spell it that way.

Yes, proper old (tigging heavy!) & carried home nested in nearly every squishy thing in the boot of my car (short of wrapping a son) around it. (My BOB was nearly opened & raided til I pointed out it would wedge beautifully as was.)

No base stamp - simple local pot made for local use. (We commissioned one a few years back when Himself was in funds and the lovely bloke kept us in touch with the research build - a Lot of clay goes in - and then of course you have to hope it dries & fires whole. He's now making them for reenactors etc at £80 a time and I do rather wonder how he ships them, as they are sound solid chunks of earthenware.)

He bought it, fingers politely clamped around it even as they locked the door on the shop - the lady chortled gently as I appeared waving treasury notes, (& I would have shoved them through the letter flap had she not preferred to admit me) enjoying two people nearly fizzy with delight. He's not spent 8 years looking to find & shamble off. He used the mobile (Gadstrewth!) to bid me come - this from a chap who frankly prefers sending a lad, to trying to get big fingers to work little buttons especially with one hand carefully clamped on lip of Grail...

I must get the heating going so he can clean it to his standards (picky mortal) & get bread making with it!

Ah.
My mistake.
I thought he was going back to look at the pansion, not at other possible bargains from the same source.

DigForVictory wrote: »

We found a pancheon! Himself had been looking for one of these vintage bread making bowls for about 8 years & today was his lucky day.

Twenty three quid strikes me as a completely can't decide between £20 & £25 price but reproductions start around £80 now.

There's some little old lady in her 80s in a carehome but her family dumped all her cooking gear (possibly all her mother's?!) into the hospice charity shop & Himself is drooling slightly over the idea of getting back Monday to have a look at what they haven't had time to sort yet...

A great bargain.
Enjoy the bread.

I'll have a reminisce with my Mum (she's 86 next month) about her old pansion and the lovely bread she used to bake when I see her on Tuesday.

GreenBitterfly

I went into the local Cancer Research shop and despite there being big signs in the window proclaiming everything is £1, I was charged the price of £2 for a hardback, which is what the sticker on it said but I'd assumed £1 for all donated items meant just that? I still bought the book a slightly battered copy of How to Stop Time by Matt Haig, as at £2 it was still cheaper than buying it from Amazon. I also got a new ish looking paperback copy of The Girl on the Train for £1.

I went to the local Hospice charity shop, but there wasn't anything there. I wasn't keen on overhearing some of the views of the volunteers about racism so I left. Surely there's directions from management about what are appropriate topics for the volunteers to discuss when on the shop floor, I didn't think that was one of them?

Miró

Oooooh I'm now dreaming about home made bread and ice cream thanks to you lot!!! I'd never heard the term 'pancheon' before....had to search Google images - there's a beoootiful one there with birds painted under the glaze. I now remember, as a child, we had an old family friend who had a, (what I now know to be), a pancheon set into a hole cut into a worktop. And there was me quite proud of my old Mason Cash mixing bowl. Not in the same league at all!!! Must have another session of making brown bread ice cream soon....totally scrummy tho it sounds disgusting! I don't have an ice cream maker or even a freezer so it's the only ice cream I can make easily in the tiny freezer bit of me fridge. Just mix it up and stick it in a Tupperware box and freeze...no worries about re-beating and ice crystals.....

DigForVictory

Himself will still commit social improprieties for a nice Mason Cash bowl, but the pancheon has been on his wishlist for years. It's the undateable age of it that appeals I think.

He can be (heck, is) fearfully picky - a lovely MC bowl made in China simply will not be acceptable, and he's after one of their batter jugs - but it has to meet all his criteria, genuine, British made, no chips, no cracks etc & usable... At which point, the price has to be reasonable too - sainsburys do a perfectly functional pseud for less than a tenner so he'll certainly not pay more. He is not an easy chap to shop for.

Besides - a Mason Cash bowl has many uses, including beauty - the pancheon is a breadmaking tool & somehow its homeliness is part of that!

I am trying to abstain from icecream making dreams. Christmas has made my trousers tight enough...!

Murphybear

Gem-gem wrote: »

What about the proper vanilla pods?

All the posh chefs use them.

They are a bit fiddly and very expensive, so I use good quality vanilla extract, always have good results

dolly84

DD got a lovely cream clock for her bedroom for £2.50 at the weekend and DS an xbox game for £1. I re-homed another hand knitted cardigan, dark gold colour with lilac and dark pink in a windowpane type knit with wooden buttons. It wasn't that bargainous at £5 but I loved it, the only other person I know who will love it is my mum.

Pollycat

A lovely TU jersey dress, short sleeves and quite 'floaty' as opposed to being fitted.
Knee length on me so good with thick tights.
It's multi coloured, a bit like stained glass windows so I have lots of choice of coloured tights.

From Oxfam £2.99.

When I cut the Oxfam tag off, it said "OXFAM EMPOWERS WOMEN".
Oh dear. :eek:

dolly84

I dropped a couple of bags of at the CS yesterday and had a look whilst there, I got a brand new with all the tags Trespass backpack, the kind with a water bladder and tube for £3.99. I've taken the bladder and tube out as I can't be bothered with trying to keep that clean. I have 2 large rucksacks and a day sack but for 4 people the day sack is too small so we will have 2 now.

Also got a navy blue Jack Wills hoodie, the fur lined type also £3.99, I love how they say Fabulously British inside right next to the 'made in China' label.

NorfolkandGood

I just love reading about all your bargains from across the country and also learning something in the process.
Thanks to
Dig for Victory I now know about the pot that had been in my shed since I moved in and inherited it from the previous owners in 1996. I had always thought it was a bulb pot but couldn't work out why it was only glazed on the inside and had such a narrow base.It's a pancheon ! And then low and behold later that night on Salvedge Hunters Drew Pritchard bought one for £20! He said they are quite common in Wales(but he didn't seem to know it had a name). Unfortunately mine is cracked.

Onto bargains!!

A lovely Tiffany and Co crystal fruit bowl for £2! It looks unused as base isn't scratched. A giant wooden pencil sharpener that is actually a pen pot £1.50. A silk lampshade £1 to go with the base I bought a while back for£3. A large "skipper" yacht for £1! Good for entertaining the little ones when we go to the local boat pond. Gap made fair isle style long bum covering wool jumper 25p and a couple to use for felting once I make up my mind what project I'm going to use them on. And lastly a skipping rope with princess painted on the handles for 20p. The happiness on my daughter's face when she started playing with it made my day!