Charity Shopping - bargains galore for 2021!

Floss

I'm confined to the house until next weekend after a ping 😕 can't even go to the post box.

greenbee

Floss said:

I'm confined to the house until next weekend after a ping 😕 can't even go to the post box.

It's OK @Floss. Nothing is open anyway... 

Floss

greenbee said:

Floss said:

I'm confined to the house until next weekend after a ping 😕 can't even go to the post box.

It's OK @Floss. Nothing is open anyway... 

I know but s0ds law that I have several Ebay parcels to be sent and 2 birthday cards to send 🙄

Magpie100

Potternerd said:

Before we got put into tier 4 on NYE ( AKA the harrying of the north):
A green leather Fossil purse in need of a bit of love £1.50
jane Shilton croc leather square toed loafers£4
A Topshop faux fur lined denim jacket £9.99. Don’t know if others do this but I often find something in a CS and then later find a better version in a CS to replace it. This is my 3rd faux fur lined denim jacket and I feel I have now reached faux fur denim jacket Nirvana. Previous versions have been redonated.
So, now I’m effectively in lockdown again I’m going to have another clear out, take lots of walks in my lovely Seasalt coat and continue to work through my stash of actual and Kindle books and wait for better days.

Ooh a new thread that I totally missed! Miserable enough here in lockdown and especially without a good CS rummage. Only upside is that I might have a sort out as that feels more achievable when no new stuff can come in 😂

Potternerd, I do the same - upgrade stuff and then resonate the previous version. Am on trainers 5.0 and I have soooo many padded jackets - must rationalise those. Hope everyone is keeping their spirits up. I’m doing dry January so that plus no charity shop hunting is making life pretty bleak. Thanks goodness for the puppy. 😀

Apintplease

Magpie100 said:

Potternerd said:

Before we got put into tier 4 on NYE ( AKA the harrying of the north):
A green leather Fossil purse in need of a bit of love £1.50
jane Shilton croc leather square toed loafers£4
A Topshop faux fur lined denim jacket £9.99. Don’t know if others do this but I often find something in a CS and then later find a better version in a CS to replace it. This is my 3rd faux fur lined denim jacket and I feel I have now reached faux fur denim jacket Nirvana. Previous versions have been redonated.
So, now I’m effectively in lockdown again I’m going to have another clear out, take lots of walks in my lovely Seasalt coat and continue to work through my stash of actual and Kindle books and wait for better days.

Ooh a new thread that I totally missed! Miserable enough here in lockdown and especially without a good CS rummage. Only upside is that I might have a sort out as that feels more achievable when no new stuff can come in 😂

Potternerd, I do the same - upgrade stuff and then resonate the previous version. Am on trainers 5.0 and I have soooo many padded jackets - must rationalise those. Hope everyone is keeping their spirits up. I’m doing dry January so that plus no charity shop hunting is making life pretty bleak. Thanks goodness for the puppy. 😀

But think of the money you are saving ready to have a guilt free splurge when we are allowed back out

Lucy5781

I remarked elsewhere, and likely back in the 2012/2013 era of my debt free diary, that one of my best coping strategies when I was mentally in a similar state to now, was to go for a walk (excersize) and rummage (re-focusing my mind into a search pattern) through the CSs. If I found good bits for a couple of pounds each I got the endorphines of the purchase without seriously damaging my finances but also knowing it was actually a charitable donation as well, double good points.
I'm honestly really feeling not being able to go. Sep-Dec my kids were both in Nursery & preschool three mornings a week and that time alone (less than three hours) was so significant to my mental state with a walk to the shops on at least one morning.
They're pretty well behaved kids and and easy to occupy but it's non-stop pretty much, from 6am - 8pm.

DigForVictory

Apintplease said:

But think of the money you are saving ready to have a guilt free splurge when we are allowed back out

I'm saving Not-£2 coins in readiness... (The £2 coins I am Saving, saving,) I may even take a days leave & work my way across the county....

Magpie100

Apintplease said:

Magpie100 said:

Potternerd said:

Before we got put into tier 4 on NYE ( AKA the harrying of the north):
A green leather Fossil purse in need of a bit of love £1.50
jane Shilton croc leather square toed loafers£4
A Topshop faux fur lined denim jacket £9.99. Don’t know if others do this but I often find something in a CS and then later find a better version in a CS to replace it. This is my 3rd faux fur lined denim jacket and I feel I have now reached faux fur denim jacket Nirvana. Previous versions have been redonated.
So, now I’m effectively in lockdown again I’m going to have another clear out, take lots of walks in my lovely Seasalt coat and continue to work through my stash of actual and Kindle books and wait for better days.

Ooh a new thread that I totally missed! Miserable enough here in lockdown and especially without a good CS rummage. Only upside is that I might have a sort out as that feels more achievable when no new stuff can come in 😂

Potternerd, I do the same - upgrade stuff and then resonate the previous version. Am on trainers 5.0 and I have soooo many padded jackets - must rationalise those. Hope everyone is keeping their spirits up. I’m doing dry January so that plus no charity shop hunting is making life pretty bleak. Thanks goodness for the puppy. 😀

But think of the money you are saving ready to have a guilt free splurge when we are allowed back out

I know, A pint - another thing to look forward to! Trying not to wish my life away but charity shopping is a massive stress relief for me, so feeling the lack of it. Hoping for better times in the spring. We’ll have to have a virtual celebration on the thread...👌💃

Miró

It’s the exercise I miss as much as the bargains.  Amazing how many steps you can clock up just walking to and then  pootling about the local chazza shops.  I was managing about 12,000 steps per day on average but now down to only around 2,000 

goldfinches

Miró said:

It’s the exercise I miss as much as the bargains.  Amazing how many steps you can clock up just walking to and then  pootling about the local chazza shops.  I was managing about 12,000 steps per day on average but now down to only around 2,000 

Chiming in to wholeheartedly agree here. I found visiting particular shops a very good way of motivating myself to walk different routes which were longer and had more difficult hills etc. I was managing a fairly respectable 10,500 or so steps per day with occasional 15k days but am now reduced to around 5k per day from my hour's exercise which isn't really enough for my health either. 
Pottering around at home or even marching up and down the staircase which I've been doing just isn't the same is it. 
At this rate I shall be reduced to doing the housework more than once - and if that happens the heavens really will fall!