Charity Shopping - bargains galore for 2021!

Rosa_Damascena

Treasurequeen said:

In local Julia’s house designer picnic bag £6.95 needed a good clean but has come up like new. 

That (to me) is a lot on a single item in a chaz. Perhaps accounts for why I've got so much small stuff!

goldfinches

Called in at the Age UK shop today and bought a powder blue long sleeved Boden top exactly like this except mine's blue for £3.99 Supersoft Pointelle T-shirt - Grey Marl (boden.co.uk) The label in mine says 15/16 but it's a perfect fit. 

Then I walked over to the Oxfam shop and bought a Pyrex deep flan dish, £3.99, a Sistema heat'n'store dish, £4.99, and a Joseph Joseph square colander, £4.99.



Here they are on the side in front of some of my other chazza finds.
I'm especially pleased at finding the colander as I've been eying it online because the handle looked particularly useful but balking at the price for a while now.

I also managed to decide not to purchase several items for various reasons e.g. the available space in my kitchen and not duplicating books that are available from the library now it is open again and so on. 

@Miró while I was in the Oxfam shop I had a good rummage along the clothes rails and noticed quite a lot of tops that I recognised from M*rks and that I'm sure I'd seen there only a few weeks ago. I wonder if they've had a big clearout and donated a lot of things to the charity shops.

Sayschezza

Powder blue short sleeve cardigan by Bassini BNWT £2.50. Pretty smocking style detail down each front.

Potternerd

A black Wallis jumper with white around the neck and cuffs £1.50
A black Nougat skirt with a frill across the front and with both frill and hem edged in white £4
I also got a a pale turquoise River Island dress with gold metallic pattern for £1.50 but it’s too tight on the bust and the gold details are really itchy. I’m really sensitive to itchy fabric and can’t wear wool so usually avoid any metallic fabrics but was swayed by how pretty it was. I have a huge pile to donate so I’ll add it to that and hope it finds a less busty and less itchy owner.

Pollycat

Rosa_Damascena said:

Treasurequeen said:

In local Julia’s house designer picnic bag £6.95 needed a good clean but has come up like new. 

That (to me) is a lot on a single item in a chaz. Perhaps accounts for why I've got so much small stuff!

I guess it depends how much it cost new.

And if it will be used.

I looked at (and rejected) a Gianni Conti leather handbag in BHF yesterday.

It was priced at £14.99 and would probably have retailed at upwards of £100, probably .

Most of the ones on eBay are at or higher than the charity shop price.

I didn't reject it because of the price but because I have a very similar one by Rowallen which is also a good brand (and is in better condition than the Conti one despite being bought in a charity shop many years ago).

I think charity shop prices should be considered in context - like price when new, condition. And if you really want it and are happy to pay the asking price.

CAFCGirl

Very pleased with a waterproof substantial dog coat for the oddly shaped cross breed we have, £5 but given we were looking at lesser versions for £25 plus I've very pleased. Its been washed and is hanging up now.

Then add to that 3 jigsaws, in almost brand new condition (done once in lockdown and forgotten I imagine). A Jigraphy one for my son (home educated so will help there), a cartoon cutesy sloth slogan one for me and then a cocktail map of America for my bar tending family member - very nice stylised imagery. So spent £ 14 in total along with some dog treats they had in for £1 a pack. Very happy with that, and I imagine I'll be back there again soon for more jigsaw browsing.

All from the Yorkshire Cancer Charity shop...

DigForVictory

Hurrah charity shops! I phoned 6 today and 5 were not taking books so the British Red Cross got an agreed 8 banana boxes full & we then went in the prowl...

(I have plans to deliver more boxes to other charities next weekend, by arrangement. Books are moving quickly at present!)

Ramsbottom (small place north of Manchester, just off M66) has a lot of charity shops that are surviving, whereas some of the big expensive shops haven’t. I’m up a Timex Indiglo wristwatch & a Sekonda nurses watch (of the metal-cased vintage) & a luckenbooth brooch that doubles as a necklace, any of which I could wear (both watches need batteries) or put in a dressing up box.
Himself spotted an unmarked but dashed familiar eggcup & on research it is indeed Denby - Mandarin (bottom right p93, Pollycat).

We moved on to Rawtenstall and as I caught up with a not-seen-you-in-Ages fellow scout (whom I used to revere as Akela), himself quietly identified a nice small oval pie dish, 9” & with the Denby Bakewell  basestamp just to underline the matter. (Son asked why bother as it’s too small for all, & had the grace to acknowledge that in this wondrous picky family, a pie for two might be just right! And anyway, Denby, but that would have undermined my arguement...)

While there were queues to get into shops, there was a couple jiving in the churchyard which was fun to listen to (we hoped some granny would step up & show them how it was really done, but alas). Plus we can now all get into the downstairs loo now half the admitted to extraneous books are gone.

I saw something labelled pashmina but think that was generic for “pretty shawl” as it didn’t look like it would fit through a wedding ring. Also it’s the sort of clothes focussed charity shop that, were it real, would price it much higher than £4.99... (I approve of specialisation - that place, if it gets Denby, doesn’t distinguish it from Woolworths....)

Pollycat

DigForVictory said:

Himself spotted an unmarked but dashed familiar eggcup & on research it is indeed Denby - Mandarin (bottom right p93, Pollycat).

Checked it out, DFV.

It's not a pattern I see very often.

DigForVictory

Either it's hugely popular and is handed on within the family, or it's cordially loathed & recipients shatter it to protect others. Or, it being Denby, possibly both.
I do have a couple of other stray pieces but they have ended up as singleton finds,l never with another cup or plate or whatever. Hugely proud that husband has learned his Denby so well that even a little eggcup triggers his antennae!
How goes the hunting for you? 

wondercollie

DigForVictory said:

Hurrah charity shops! I phoned 6 today and 5 were not taking books so the British Red Cross got an agreed 8 banana boxes full & we then went in the prowl...

(I have plans to deliver more boxes to other charities next weekend, by arrangement. Books are moving quickly at present!)

Ramsbottom (small place north of Manchester, just off M66) has a lot of charity shops that are surviving, whereas some of the big expensive shops haven’t. I’m up a Timex Indiglo wristwatch & a Sekonda nurses watch (of the metal-cased vintage) & a luckenbooth brooch that doubles as a necklace, any of which I could wear (both watches need batteries) or put in a dressing up box.
Himself spotted an unmarked but dashed familiar eggcup & on research it is indeed Denby - Mandarin (bottom right p93, Pollycat).

We moved on to Rawtenstall and as I caught up with a not-seen-you-in-Ages fellow scout (whom I used to revere as Akela), himself quietly identified a nice small oval pie dish, 9” & with the Denby Bakewell  basestamp just to underline the matter. (Son asked why bother as it’s too small for all, & had the grace to acknowledge that in this wondrous picky family, a pie for two might be just right! And anyway, Denby, but that would have undermined my arguement...)

While there were queues to get into shops, there was a couple jiving in the churchyard which was fun to listen to (we hoped some granny would step up & show them how it was really done, but alas). Plus we can now all get into the downstairs loo now half the admitted to extraneous books are gone.

I saw something labelled pashmina but think that was generic for “pretty shawl” as it didn’t look like it would fit through a wedding ring. Also it’s the sort of clothes focussed charity shop that, were it real, would price it much higher than £4.99... (I approve of specialisation - that place, if it gets Denby, doesn’t distinguish it from Woolworths....)

I'm one of the few dinosaur nurses in my hospital that still wears the traditional watch.

It's a great conversation starter for some of the older patients.