More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

Floss

Picked up a few nice things today, including a gorgeous faux leather skirt & silvery grey velvet & knit sweater both by Mint Velvet, faux leather Zara waterfall jacket, Levi's shirt, black wool M& mini skirt, Joules "Festive Bird" stripe top and a handful of small never-opened books for stocking fillers.

goldfinches

Have had a very expensive outing to get my flu jab.
Gave me the opportunity/excuse to visit the charity shops in tremendously upmarket area and miraculously in the first shop, Scope, that I stepped into there was a rolled up exercise mat with a carrying strap for £3. I then spotted a cake cutting wire on the side shelves and snapped that up for another £3.
Then I found a lovely, large pillowcase with drawn thread work on its Oxford border made of beautifully soft white cotton for £7 and two mauve Land's End Therma Loft fleece throws for £6 apiece in the hospice shop.
Then across the road in Oxfam I found a pretty melamine tray in my favourite rectangular half size for 99p.
On my way home I called in to my favourite BHF shop just to look and pounced on a wooden book rest, £1.50, which will hold cookbooks open for me and an IKEA silicon ice tray, £1,which will make little bottle shaped ice cubes.
I got to the hanging rails hoping to find another pair of flattering trousers and instead discovered that a local retailer had just made a corporate donation of discontinued stock and so I now possess several pairs of pretty exercise leggings which are all new and cost £3 per pair.  I shall be able to go to the gym or out for a walk/run in a different outfit every day of the week at this rate and all for about a tenth of what I expected to have to pay.

dolly84

Hello all.  Haven't posted for ages, we have been doing loads of redecoration at home so haven't really gone out a lot but I do have a few purchases.

BNWT Next black and ecru striped long sleeve t shirt with keyhole detail at back - £3.49

M&S Harvest Fruits serving/salad bowl - £1

Long sheer scarf with autumn trees print - £1

Small framed print of a duck - can't remember the artist name but it is very nicely done - £2

Two large framed prints of Saddleworth by a local artist - £3.50 each

Solid Oak table which I have now restored and am using as our dining table - £10

Weird Fish Macaroni top in bright pink with navy backing which comes through to the front - £7.99 which was expensive but it is BNWT.

Hollister flannel shirt for my son £3.49

Vintage bedside cabinet which just needed a bit of tlc, it is solid wood and fits beautifully in our vintage interior - £5

White hand embroidered table centrepiece, quite old but in good condition - £3.50

Accessorize red bobble hat £1

Gap grey lambswool scarf £2.49

4 crystal wine glasses £3.49

Bake off cookbook £2.50

One of my favourite finds was 4 very, very old hardback books, they have all come from the same person, he has put his name and address in two of them with the year and the others have been inscribed by a gift giver, the dates range from 1929 to 1945, the books were Farewell to Arms, To Have and to Have Not, Apes & Angels (or is it Angels & Apes) and a selection of short stories by Oscar Wilde.  These were 50p each and I am thrilled to keep them together.

Various Shellac 78's between 50p and £1

A variety of vintage plates, platters, tureens, cups and saucers etc, various prices but no more than £3

That is all I can remember. 

Floss

@Dolly84 do you live in Saddleworth? I was brought up there but we left mid-70s for Cheshire.

dolly84

Floss said:

@Dolly84 do you live in Saddleworth? I was brought up there but we left mid-70s for Cheshire.

No, I live fairly close, just outside of Brighouse so Saddleworth is just a quick jaunt down the motorway.

Miró

Ooooooh, used to go to a nice restaurant in Brighouse....Brook’s!  Probably long gone now.

The clearance rail in the Salvation Army shop turned up trumps again.  Found a pair of black, wool trousers by Brax for £2.  Lovely quality but a bit on the big side tho.  Will be good for when I need to wear my thermal long johns.  Today in the community shop, also on a clearance rail, I got an M & S, black, sleeveless shifty dress for £2.25.  Then in the same shop, now don’t laugh, I got a sparkly, gem encrusted headband/tiara.  Still in the box from Accessorize and originally priced at £20...I paid £1.50.  I’m planning on going all ‘pawsh’ over  Chrimbo  and making an effort to dress up for dinner each day, (well it’ll give the chazza frocks an airing if nowt else!! 

Bogof_OAP

I'd never heard of Brax, so Googled...  https://www.peterhahn.co.uk/brax-womens-trousers

Wow, fantastic bargain you got there Miro! 

Miró

Bogof_OAP said:

I'd never heard of Brax, so Googled...  https://www.peterhahn.co.uk/brax-womens-trousers

Wow, fantastic bargain you got there Miro! 

I knew they made mens trousers but hadn't heard of their womens range!!

goldfinches

Bogof_OAP said:

I'd never heard of Brax, so Googled...  https://www.peterhahn.co.uk/brax-womens-trousers

Wow, fantastic bargain you got there Miro! 

Thanks for that link, I'd never heard of the brand before and from the look of that page it seems to be worth my keeping an eye out for them when I'm next skimming the rails.
I popped into my favourite BHF shop this afternoon but there was nothing that I needed or wanted so I came away empty handed thinking that my spending spree is over which is probably a good thing.
I rather like the idea of dressing for dinner and might make more of an effort myself in the coming days. I could certainly wear my jewellery rather than storing it in boxes in drawers for instance. 
Off to the kitchen to bake now, have a lovely evening all, goldfinches.

MrsStepford

I bought a hand-painted large cream jug for £14 on eBay from British Red Cross and also on eBay, a green Sylvac vase from a hospice shop, for £8. Not sure whether eBay is more expensive than an actual shop. 

If you're looking for books, Amazon can be cheaper than the Oxfam website. A book I wanted on Provence, was 14.99 on Oxfam website but just 3.53 with free postage, for a new copy on Amazon.