More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

Potternerd

Yay my yay my patience has finally been rewarded. 

Pepe dungarees £3. The legs are a bit wider than I had envisaged but I quite fancy going for a Dexy’s circa 1982 vibe.

goldfinches

Potternerd said:

Yay my yay my patience has finally been rewarded. 

Pepe dungarees £3. The legs are a bit wider than I had envisaged but I quite fancy going for a Dexy’s circa 1982 vibe.

You took me right back, Dexy's were the first pop concert I ever went to. Smashing show, when the audience were stamping along to Oliver's Army I'm sure the whole building was moving. Bet you'll look great in them.

I've stayed out of the shops this weekend but am going to make myself a list of needs and wants sometime tomorrow in order to give the chazza fairy a bit of a nudge.
Do you think there's any chance of finding a book that was published last month or is that really too soon?
Just greed really and impatience with the county library system but it would be nice to have a reduced price copy of Ottolenghi's Flavour, says she wistfully, must practise acceptance meanwhile.
Waves to all, goldfinches.

Owain_Moneysaver

Katiehound said:

Just to report that my 20 pence bracelet is indeed made of amber. Worth about £6, so sadly not in the league of the hand grown /hand woven / hand crafted shirt!! 

But as a percentage it's a good bargain, 1/30th of the new price.

Floss

goldfinches said:

You took me right back, Dexy's were the first pop concert I ever went to. Smashing show, when the audience were stamping along to Oliver's Army I'm sure the whole building was moving.

Oliver's Army was an Elvis Costello & The Attractions song. Dexy's Midnight Runners did Come On Eileen & Geno.

Bogof_OAP

I think Come on Eileen and Dancing Queen are the only two songs that could get my old bones up on a dance floor these days!

Miró

It had to happen.....up in North Yorkshire and the only chazzers open on Sunday now seem to be the BHF shops and there displayed in the window was a recently donated coat of mine.  I deliberately bring my stuff away from home ground cos I do not want to see it again!!!!  Anyhoo.....did find a BNWT pair of black leather knee high boots in the Thirsk branch....bit steep at £17.99, original price £59.95, (and pressured to make an extra squid donation cos they had lost a lot of income due to lockdown, (is this a new thing everywhere?).

goldfinches

Floss said:

goldfinches said:

You took me right back, Dexy's were the first pop concert I ever went to. Smashing show, when the audience were stamping along to Oliver's Army I'm sure the whole building was moving.

Oliver's Army was an Elvis Costello & The Attractions song. Dexy's Midnight Runners did Come On Eileen & Geno.

You're quite right. Oddly I can remember being there and the sensation of stamping along while watching the lead singer on stage with the microphone but not the name of the song we were all joining in with.

Bogof_OAP said:

I think Come on Eileen and Dancing Queen are the only two songs that could get my old bones up on a dance floor these days!

Wot, no YMCA and It's Raining Men?

 Miró said:

It had to happen.....up in North Yorkshire and the only chazzers open on Sunday now seem to be the BHF shops and there displayed in the window was a recently donated coat of mine.  I deliberately bring my stuff away from home ground cos I do not want to see it again!!!!  Anyhoo.....did find a BNWT pair of black leather knee high boots in the Thirsk branch....bit steep at £17.99, original price £59.95, (and pressured to make an extra squid donation cos they had lost a lot of income due to lockdown, (is this a new thing everywhere?).

So far I've only encountered this in the BHF here but I fear it will spread quickly judging by this article in today's Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/oct/18/how-you-can-help-cash-strapped-charities-keep-up-and-running

Still at least your coat was window display worthy and will be used to beguile passers by into pausing and browsing, perhaps you could try donating to a particular shop and then not revisiting it for a set time to allow time for your selections to be snapped up by others.
Have you ever seen someone wearing or, even odder, reporting having bought one of your previous treasures?

DigForVictory

We cleared youngest's room (with a shovel) when he & eldest swapped rooms & lugged several bags for life filled with dinsoaurs, Star Wars toys, and other good hearty toys to chew on for another generation to enjoy.
Next week, looping round the outlying towns, spotted a Star Wars spaceship & Himself muttered "Don't you recognise the bent sensor aerial?" as I peered at it. I was gently hustled out before I could debate the matter.

Miró

Nearly missed a nice useful bargain this afty.  In the community shop I saw a pair of what I thought were B/N grey faux sheepskin slipper/boots.  No tags but the soles were unmarked and priced at £5.  I nearly put them back as I was convinced they must be fake sheepskin at that price.  Then I spotted the John Lewis label buried in the wool so had a better squiz at them and realised they were genuine so I snapped them up.  Will be super cosy on my wood floors this winter.  Just found them on the JL website and currently selling at £65

https://www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-partners-sheepskin-boot-slippers/grey/p5077619?size=6&sku=238606738&colour=Grey&s_ppc=2dx92700056586353308&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gclid=CjwKCAjwlbr8BRA0EiwAnt4MTnPd1nqVbNzni2L4s6p-sdhw77CMPQgMaa75qvVz_HfIeYw2BZasgRoC-kkQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Magpie100

Miró said:

Katiehound said:

Miró said:

Magpie100 said:

I'm not meant to be shopping but I too am fretting about another lockdown, especially as my area has gone into Tier Two today. In The Helen Rollason shop a pair of Burgundy boots with buckles, from Topshop. £3, RRP £85, apparently. And an amazing white shirt with New Romantic style cuffs by Teatum Jones. I imagine this must be a diffusion line of theirs as all their stuff looks SO expensive and like it belongs in an art exhibition. Shirt is fabulous quality and was £5.99 in Scope. 

Never heard of Teatum Jones before but blimey....anything between £500 - £700 for a cotton shirt!!!!!! 

At that price I would expect it to be hand woven by a princess from straw!! and all finely stitched by hand........Clearly I inhabit a different world!!

I do hope Magpie100 has checked the care instructions - gonna be a nightmare to wash......'Handwash only in the tears of a Vestal Virgin'!

😂😂 only just seen this! I agree - shirt only worn a few hours so far so not braved the washing machine yet. I do feel a little nervous about it!