More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

Owain_Moneysaver

goldfinches said:

Owain_Moneysaver said:

I personally don't, but have seen such things on QVC while waiting for the DIY programme to start. It's very educational. 

Is it? Educational I mean? Just sounds like another method of parting you from your money to me.

I meant that watching QVC can be educational, not buying stuff from them.  

goldfinches

Owain_Moneysaver said:

goldfinches said:

Owain_Moneysaver said:

I personally don't, but have seen such things on QVC while waiting for the DIY programme to start. It's very educational. 

Is it? Educational I mean? Just sounds like another method of parting you from your money to me.

I meant that watching QVC can be educational, not buying stuff from them.  

Grovelling apologies for having vaulted onto my hobbyhorse without stopping to consider your MSE credentials @Owain_Moneysaver, I will try harder to resist my impulses in future, goldfinches. 

Magpie100

I had an unexpectedly brilliant days in the charity shops yesterday. We have a shop called ecco - environmental conservation co-operative - which I've always been puzzled by. It feels quite different to other charity shops - cheaper, more bric-a-brac. The branch I go to seems to have a mix of vintage, ordinary donated stuff, sample sale stuff and seconds. Yesterday I found they were selling brand-new Ikea lamps - ones with paper shades, not expensive new, I shouldn't think, but they were labelled as £3. We need a new lamp for a corner in our living room and I thought I'd try one at that price. I also found a Baukjen dress - purple, sheath-style, absolutely lovely and easy to wear marked as £4, and a Suzy Smith bucket-style handbag in black and tan. This last might be vintage - I don't know much about bags, but it's definitely leather and completely timeless. When I got to the till they said all clothing was half price, so for these three bargains they charged me FIVE POUNDS. Amazing. Baukjen stuff is really pricey so to get a dress fort £2 (which I promptly wore out to dinner last night) might be one of my best bargains ever. 

In the Salvation Army I found a lovely Warehouse fine-knit jumper in black with a slight sparkle running through it and rainbow sparkle cuffs. As a Magpie I find it hard to resist anything sparkly, and it was £3.99, so I bought it. I also found a Berry Jackson striped shirt in Oxfam for £5.99 (slightly vintage feel to it, and amazing quality) and a pair of Gerry Weber trousers in BHF for £3.50. These are brown twill, wide, with a high waist and I LOVE them. 

The Salvation Army and Ecco are so much better value than a lot of the other charity shops at the moment - BHF, Scope and Oxfam currently feel very pricey indeed... 

Now I MUST stop buying and start enjoying what I have, as I surely don't need anything else. So please keep posting your finds so I can get my fix! 

M100 

Footpather

Last week I went to a local small town and perused the goods in the chazzers but only came home with one item.  It's actually a man's silk shirt (60% silk) but it is multicoloured and made in Italy and it was only £2.99 so I bought it. 
Yesterday I went into a posher town. Managed to get free parking, a free wee (pay machine was broken) and a free coffee (as I had a fully stamped loyalty card from some while ago) but nothing else at all. Eight different chazzers and not a thing to show for it. Oh well it was a nice day and a nice walk. 

goldfinches

Footpather said:

Yesterday I went into a posher town. Managed to get free parking, a free wee (pay machine was broken) and a free coffee (as I had a fully stamped loyalty card from some while ago) but nothing else at all. 

I feel a joke trying to come on along the lines of "How do you know you're in an upmarket area? You have to pay to do anything including relieve yourself." but can't manage to make it be funny IYSWIM. Can anyone else help me out here please?

Floss

goldfinches said:

Footpather said:

Yesterday I went into a posher town. Managed to get free parking, a free wee (pay machine was broken) and a free coffee (as I had a fully stamped loyalty card from some while ago) but nothing else at all. 

I feel a joke trying to come on along the lines of "How do you know you're in an upmarket area? You have to pay to do anything including relieve yourself." but can't manage to make it be funny IYSWIM. Can anyone else help me out here please?

You've obviously never been to Blackpool - it's been 20p to spend a penny for years.

Miró

goldfinches said:

Footpather said:

Yesterday I went into a posher town. Managed to get free parking, a free wee (pay machine was broken) and a free coffee (as I had a fully stamped loyalty card from some while ago) but nothing else at all. 

I feel a joke trying to come on along the lines of "How do you know you're in an upmarket area? You have to pay to do anything including relieve yourself." but can't manage to make it be funny IYSWIM. Can anyone else help me out here please?

Most of our public loos, including those in shops & supermarkets, have been closed since Lockdown v.i

goldfinches

Miró said:

goldfinches said:

Footpather said:

Yesterday I went into a posher town. Managed to get free parking, a free wee (pay machine was broken) and a free coffee (as I had a fully stamped loyalty card from some while ago) but nothing else at all. 

I feel a joke trying to come on along the lines of "How do you know you're in an upmarket area? You have to pay to do anything including relieve yourself." but can't manage to make it be funny IYSWIM. Can anyone else help me out here please?

Most of our public loos, including those in shops & supermarkets, have been closed since Lockdown v.i

It was like that here until a few weeks ago and you could tell where people who had been caught short were using by the aroma during the hot weather but thankfully some shops opened theirs quite early on and the city council left one open in the town centre. Other places are gradually opening their facilities again but one still has to plan carefully before leaving home.
I don't think there can be many who just open the front door and off they go nowadays, in fact I'm sure that quite a lot of people will acquire the lifelong habit of using the loo last thing before leaving home and washing one's hands when one returns without ever stopping to consider why.
I did once have to beg to be allowed to use the ladies on the way home from a chazza marathon a few weeks ago as I'd stayed out longer than I planned and was walking home the longer, more scenic route. I don't want to repeat that in a hurry as leaving that building involved a huge and very confusing one-way detour.
Anyway I don't plan to visit any charity shops this weekend as I've resolved to avoid temptation until I've finished reading my current library books which are all due back next week so happy chazza hunting to everyone else and like Magpie I'll be reading along to get my fix that way too, goldfinches.

Lucy5781

Been clearing items from Mother in Law's house (she unfortunately passed away in May from long standing health issues) and had debated mentioning her impressive dinner service collection here, all Port Merrion Dusk but thought no, it's not Denby.
Then discovered a tea pot and cups set up in the top cupboards that turned out to be Denby Boston Blue... I can't do anything about it, there's SO MUCH STUFF in the house, we've frantically been ensuring we take what's actually important family-wise, taking some of the bulk bought kitchen and cleaning supplies, kitchen things we'll actually use and then have to leave the rest to the professional clearance team to handle. 

I wish I could offer it up to a Denby lover here. We can't process it all ourselves, it's insane how much stuff there is in that house.

Lxx

wondercollie

When my pals Mum died, there was a motherload of Royal Albert teasets, dinner sets and Beleek bits and pieces.  She was going to donate them to thrift stores.  I held her back because over here that stuff would be bought up by dealers and then sold on at antique fairs.
Instead it went to a china replacement service.  You know those places that sell on missing pieces from your own sets.  She made a bit of money off it as they either buy  outright or sell on commission