More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

Floss

osbornbiscuit possibly for Coquilles Saint Jacques, which was popular when Pyrex was big?

VfM4meplse

Floss wrote: »

osbornbiscuit possibly for Coquilles Saint Jacques, which was popular when Pyrex was big?

That's it! I could picture the dish in large oyster shells, just couldn't name it

Pollycat

Wizzbang wrote: »

The hospice shops in Dorset (where I am) are all horrendous. Certain upmarket towns in the countryside are the worst, but often have the best donations. But as I know I would buy the items for less in the sale, I just laugh at their pricing (and volunteers!) and move on. I had the misfortune of living in one of those towns for 18 months - the kind where the toffs push (who they consider to be) the riff raff off the pavements because they think they have more right to be there, or push in front of you in the supermarket queue because they believe they have more right to be served! Yes, seriously and you could never, ever persuade me to live there, ever again.

You can find the odd bargain/ clearance shop in one of the big towns, but they are generally in the really nasty areas and basically full of tat. Even the run of the mill, normally priced ones are expensive and I see an awful lot of cheap, nasty brands like Primark, Peacocks etc for what you could buy it new for, or more. There are quite a few big warehouse type shops and they are the same middle of the road pricing as the rest, the nice thing is that as they are hospice shops, they often get corporate donations from local companies. So you can buy brand new for less.

I get a lot less in charity shops now, as in the sales at 70% or greater discount, I can buy brand new from a wide selection of brands at a fraction of the cost of the charity shops around here. I think people are also tending to sell the good stuff themselves on eBay or Facebook etc, so you are less likely to find the good stuff. That's good if you want to be specific, but less fun to browse.

All of this sounds horrendous - and so very different to my own personal and very regular visits to charity shops.
I have a route in my village with 5 charity shops, my town has 10 or 11 shops and the city we go to about once a month has 13 shops.
I do sometimes have a grumble about pricing but I do find lots of bargains.
The staff are almost always lovely (especially the manager in
the £1 AA shop who knows I'm on the lookout for plain colour tops that cover my bum to wear with patterned leggings and gets potential buys off the rail for me )

And the natives are - on the whole - polite.

GreyQueen

H0tter shoes around here, in new condition, sell at £10 in all the different charity shops, it seems a fair price to me, and to most others, I guess, as they don't stay around for too long.

I paid £8 for a pair of Cl@rks plain black flats last week, which seemed very reasonable. They were to replace a pair of H0tters which are nearly worn through, so I would have been looking at £70 (ish) - or rather, not looking at it, as I have been nursing my shoes along, extending their life by wearing sandals for a few months each year, all to avoid shelling out all that money.

Potternerd

February's purchases

A Converse laptop sleeve £1
A sweet little Royal Delft China box with Miffy on the lid £2
A Roxy coin purse 50p
A little turquoise caddy thing £1
A Boden yellow and white skirt £3
BNWT Clarks blue suede pumps with silver toes £5
A Calvin Klein fine cotton robe £3
An ASOS kimono £4
A Phase Eight denim dress £10.50 (eek!)
A hardback copy of Burial Rites for book group £1.10

Pollycat

Potternerd wrote: »

February's purchases

A Converse laptop sleeve £1
A sweet little Royal Delft China box with Miffy on the lid £2
A Roxy coin purse 50p
A little turquoise caddy thing £1
A Boden yellow and white skirt £3
BNWT Clarks blue suede pumps with silver toes £5
A Calvin Klein fine cotton robe £3
An ASOS kimono £4
A Phase Eight denim dress £10.50 (eek!)
A hardback copy of Burial Rites for book group £1.10

:eek: maybe.
But so much better than the original price (that someone will have paid).
And it does sound nice.

GreyQueen

18 months ago, I happened to be in an overly-pretty country town in an area with a well-heeled population and went into a few chazzers, as you do. Because everyone's first thought on going anywhere is like mine; I'll go online and google for the chazzers and visit as many as possible while I'm there. Or is that just me, then?:o

But I digress. Pretty Town was beyond extortionate. They wanted £23 for a pair of well-worn Cl@rks loafers, as just one example. :eek: I guess, if they have poor people in Pretty Town, they ride the bus a few miles down into Ugly Town, where things are rather more affordable and the chazzers price things sensibly.

osbornbiscuit

Many thanks Floss and VfM4eplse for the info. Us 'posh' volunteers were totally confused by them.....
Of course the burning question tomorrow will be sell or bin.
I have been reading with interest about the pricing which seems to be at odds with us 'up north'. At the end of the day we want to sell as much as we can for the charity concerned and although guide lines are issued with regard to labels, but we are not in an affluent area so it is priced to sell. It is always better to sell an item rather than rag it because no one wants it.
I envy some of your bargains, we never see Seasalt up here and the scarf sounds beautiful. I will have to keep an eye out for that name.
Thanks again for the help

Lucy5781

I'm in the cheaper, little university town with an neighbour town that's a bit more well to do.

We have six c/s which include two £1 outlets.

The other town has about eight, all normal priced. The Dogs Trust are ridiculously overpriced though.

Potternerd

Pollycat wrote: »

:eek: maybe.
But so much better than the original price (that someone will have paid).
And it does sound nice.

Yes that's what I told myself, and it was for a good cause, and except for tights and undies I hardly ever do buy new!!