Charity Shopping - bargains galore for 2021!

Wednesday2000

Rosa_Damascena said:

I'm enjoying reading everyone's chazzer finds, but I have come to accept that my penchant for buying stuff that is useful and excellent value but ultimately rarely used has got to stop. I am surrounded by stuff but didn't realise quite how much until I had to decant my living areas and kitchen.

Oh no, I am moving to your neck of the woods (we just found a house and made an offer that was accepted) and I wanted you to give me advice about what chazzers were good in the area.

Wednesday2000

I went into Barnados the other day and bought an Asda red knee length dress and a pure silk shirt for my husband. Oh yes, also some navy warm tights that were still in their packaging. I think that was about £6.

I went into a hospice shop this morning and bought a black and gold cushion and a very pretty blue and white jug that I will use for orange juice. It says on the bottom that it was hand painted in Portugal. £5 for both.

CAFCGirl

A fruitful day today for me

Per Una polka dot light denim cropped jeans, £1
New with tags leather gladiator style sandals £3
3 plant pots for £5.50 
A seemingly underused small gas lift office chair £4
2 starbucks oversized mugs, white embossed style £1 for both.

DigForVictory

In Colne, in the age concern charity shop I pounced on two jugs which looked right but were red. Denby basestamped, so I checked for chips etc (all clear) & research shows them to be Denby Damask (bottom left p92, Pollycat) a pattern in production for just over 5 years (& I’m startled it lasted that long). Red?! 

In the YMCA there was a chevron jug but it had a tiny chip on the rim & it’s just easier to say no early than regret later. Which is why I left over 30 pieces of Denby maplewood on the shelf at the hospice charity shop. Even plates & bowls - it was an excellent find but it was maplewood pattern, not one I’m desperate to acquire more of. This, from a Denbyholic! Yes I was hot & perhaps not in my usual hunt it down & drag it back Smaug mode, but since the chaps have been Devastatingly clear that the Denby needs rationalisation, lugging 30 pieces I cannot justify would just provoke those whose help I will need!

Pollycat

DigForVictory said:

In Colne, in the age concern charity shop I pounced on two jugs which looked right but were red. Denby basestamped, so I checked for chips etc (all clear) & research shows them to be Denby Damask (bottom left p92, Pollycat) a pattern in production for just over 5 years (& I’m startled it lasted that long). Red?! 

In the YMCA there was a chevron jug but it had a tiny chip on the rim & it’s just easier to say no early than regret later. Which is why I left over 30 pieces of Denby maplewood on the shelf at the hospice charity shop. Even plates & bowls - it was an excellent find but it was maplewood pattern, not one I’m desperate to acquire more of. This, from a Denbyholic! Yes I was hot & perhaps not in my usual hunt it down & drag it back Smaug mode, but since the chaps have been Devastatingly clear that the Denby needs rationalisation, lugging 30 pieces I cannot justify would just provoke those whose help I will need!

Damask pattern came to mind before I even looked at my book.

It's not the prettiest pattern or colour, is it?

Coincidentally, I saw a few pieces of Maplewood in my local hospice shop yesterday.

I bought a pair of Nike full length leggings yesterday from Mencap, excellent condition for £4.00.

I'll either wear them in the house in the winter or for gardening.

Slinky

Having been doing a Marie Kondo clearout for a number of years, I was a donator to charity shops rather than a shopper, but a couple of weeks ago was tempted into our local children's hospice shop where I found a lovely Laura Ashley top for £6. Discovered later it had a couple of small stains - probably suncream- but being a white background I put some bleach on them and they've come up fine.

Bouyed by this success I went back in yesterday, didn't find any clothing to my taste, but OMG, the excitement I had when I found a couple of icecream dishes the same, near as damnit, to the 5 I already have, having broken one a few years back. I bought the originals nearly 20 years ago, the breakage was probably 15 years ago. Have searched online occasionally for them without success. They are frosted glass - the only difference is the new ones have a smooth interior, as opposed to the matt interior of the originals, but nobody other than me would notice that when they have icecream in them.  Bargain at £1.50 each.

goldfinches

I've had a successful couple of forays yesterday and today.
Yesterday I found a lovely daylesford organic cookery school apron in beautifully thick navy cotton twill, £3, and a Cotton Traders quilted jacket, £6, in Barnardo's. I also found a softback copy of Who's Buried Where in England, £2.99, in the Oxfam on the other side of the road. Then in Age UK I found an unused cookie stamper kit in mint condition, £1.49, and a weekly planner pad, 99p.
Then today in the Sobell House Hospice shop I snapped up a pair of navy size 10 craghoppers trousers, £7, a pretty little Morris print notebook, 50p, 2 soup spoons and a narrow spoon, 10p ea, a Zyliss snap top container, 95p, a gorgeous deep oval pie dish, £10, an expanding file for loose papers, £2.50, and a hardback copy of Biscuiteers Book of Iced Biscuits, £2.50. On the way home I nipped into the Oxfam bookshop and found a lovely Persephone edition of Good Evening, Mrs Craven by Molly Panter-Downes and a hardback copy of The Pie Book by Caroline Bretherton and published by Dorling Kindersley so it's got lots of really helpful photos.



Here are some of my purchases arranged as a rather blue themed domestic still life.

Pollycat

Goldfinches

The pie dish looks old - does it have any stamps underneath?

Just curious really.

goldfinches

Hi Pollycat, yes it does and here it is.




It looks as though it has been done by hand after glazing to me, what do you think?

Pollycat

Thanks.

That's pretty much the stamp I expected to see.

The bottom of these dishes aren't glazed.

The Pottery opened in 1810 and closed in 1994.