More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

Miró

Last meander round the charity shops before Chrimbo, (possibly:o).

Got a pair of Country Casuals smart black slim fit jeans, as new and lovely quality from the Martin House Childrens Hospice shop...£3. They came into the category of 'only the price of a cup of coffee' - didn't really need them but I loved them!

The thing I like about CC is that I take a size smaller than normal in their stuff, (vanity, vanity:p). These jeans are a short fitting tho, (and I am not!) but they will be great either tucked into boots or rolled up a bit.

DigForVictory

Help me! Please? There’s a shelf of Denby Daybreak - plates bowls cups & even a lidded casserole just they want £50 so I am forcing myself to walk away.
Owch.

C_J

Buy it!!! Buy it now!

Owain_Moneysaver

DigForVictory wrote: »

Help me! Please? There’s a shelf of Denby Daybreak - plates bowls cups & even a lidded casserole just they want £50 so I am forcing myself to walk away.
Owch.

What's the cost per piece?

And do you need an extra lidded casserole for serving christmas vegetables?

DigForVictory

The acquisition committee chairman was of the same mind - 29 pieces for £50 is over the threshold. There weren’t enough plates or bowls & anyway it’s one of the colourroll designs - this less shades-of-chestnut-mushroom than some, but I could see his point.

So didn’t leave in tears (just), but plan to drop back in after Christmas as while I do not need a lidded casserole, (another, ahem & Still Not in House Pattern) if it drops much in price it'll drop neatly into my outstretched hands.

Just if someone desperately needs it more, fair enough.

dolly84

Have been out with DH hunting for a small side table or nest of tables, found lots but nothing that was quite right. I did find a lovely Surfanic ski/snowboarding jacket, loads of features and in lovely condition, mine for £8.50, not a bad price considering how much they are new but for someone who doesn't ski and already has tons of waterproof walking coats it wasn't a wise spend really - hey ho I love it though.



DH got a BNWT Tu bobble hat for £2.50.

bobsa1

Yesterday I needed to get out the house and popped to pay a check in at the post office and at the same time checked out 2 cs. One had a set of Hard Rock Cafe shot glasses in a bit of a tatty box but only £2.95 so that’s going in Dd1very full stocking. I then went to the other one and had a browse. They had a proper 1970s vintage dress that I thought dd would love at £6.99 whilst looking I got chatting to the manager who said they had 6 different vintage ones come into the shop. She rummaged about and found 3 remaining ones all £6.99 each so I left with 4 x vintage dresses and a very large lamp shade for a floor lamp I had. Dd loves 3 of the dresses but not the 4th so that will be returned

DigForVictory

Blimey, on the whatever-th day of Christmas my mother popped out & then brought back for me four vintage frocks & a lampshade!
She’s a lucky lass several times over (I used to gave a fifties figure - childbearing can be so unsporting) and with your eye for a frock on her team!

Miró

Went out early this morning to feed the birds to find that we had had a visit from the local vandals last night. Freshly painted woodwork graffitied and gouged with a sharp implement, courtesy lights smashed, security mirrors torn off and smashed and refuse bins upended and rubbish strewn about. Could have wept....anyhoo, took myself out for a walk to get away from it and, of course, ended up in a few chazza shops. Came home with a pair of BNWT, Boden, British Tweed trousers in navy. Fully lined and such soft tweed - will be soooo cosy, I hope. Found them online selling at £120....price to me in the chazza £9. Would not normally have paid so much but I needed cheering up

DigForVictory

Miro, how appalling & utterly pointlessly vile of the vandals. Rousing hurrahs at your discerning eye open and spotting the tweed.
(Remind me, does tweed need to do a quarantine period in the freezer? And if so, have you Space?!)