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DigForVictory

I have fallen off my Denby diet. The Acquiz committee did push, mind. The cancer research shop was given the household stock of Denby Chevron. Not just teapot, jug, cups & saucers but the 60s wedding list stuff, the handled casseroles, the dinner plates, the tea plates, the celery dish, the oval & oblong platters, the oval dish, and then the lidded soup bowls… All for less than the price of a takeaway curry for four!

The encore teapot is still sitting in the shop there, gently reproaching me. 

If only I could buy (or rent!) willpower…

Rosa_Damascena

DigForVictory said:

I have fallen off my Denby diet. The Acquiz committee did push, mind. The cancer research shop was given the household stock of Denby Chevron. Not just teapot, jug, cups & saucers but the 60s wedding list stuff, the handled casseroles, the dinner plates, the tea plates, the celery dish, the oval & oblong platters, the oval dish, and then the lidded soup bowls… All for less than the price of a takeaway curry for four!

The encore teapot is still sitting in the shop there, gently reproaching me. 

If only I could buy (or rent!) willpower…

I don't know if I ever really understood how you store this all?

I didn't think I had a problem I had to pack up the contents of my kitchen. The heavy but fragile dishes that were neatly tucked away in pan drawers turned out out to be the biggest hassle. They have their uses but in fairness haven't had a proper outing for nearly 2 years.

Pollycat

DigForVictory said:

I have fallen off my Denby diet. The Acquiz committee did push, mind. The cancer research shop was given the household stock of Denby Chevron. Not just teapot, jug, cups & saucers but the 60s wedding list stuff, the handled casseroles, the dinner plates, the tea plates, the celery dish, the oval & oblong platters, the oval dish, and then the lidded soup bowls… All for less than the price of a takeaway curry for four!

The encore teapot is still sitting in the shop there, gently reproaching me. 

If only I could buy (or rent!) willpower…

Fab-u-lous!

Well done.

I like the chevron design.

DigForVictory

Rosa_Damascena said:

I don't know if I ever really understood how you store this all?

The Bad way. Occupying an entire room that ought to be a spacious sitting & dining room, but instead has chests of drawers, a sideboard, the bookcase bit of a dresser, some chairs & then crates of Denby, variously badly packed along with crates of books & CDs and stuff-to-pack-before-moving before you've actually bought the new house, then never got around to unpacking. Two skips later, there is space for negotiations as to everything else & possibly even letting go the bulk of patterns I am not to passionate about I want more than a reference piece.
However, it was an amazing haul & it even turned out to meet Acquiz Committee guidelines! So two more crates were carefully repacked...

Lucy5781

goldfinches said:

@Mrs_Salad_Dodger, @DigForVictory and @Miró - thankyou for your kind words, I must give most of the credit to Barkeeper's Friend and own brand stainless steel scouring pads but the elbow grease was all my own!

@Lucy5781 - very annoying when things are wrongly labelled isn't it. Are you able to return it to the shop? A majority of my local chazzas offer returns for refunds on clothing now that it isn't possible to have a fitting room and some even say that you can return purchases to any of their branches which I think is really helpful. 

To be fair, I had to do a bit of hunting to even find the inner label and they likely guessed the size, assumed 4-5 as it's a school coat but obviously some Reception children, born in like July or August can still be really tiny when they start school so, I'll just offer it to another Mum when I get the chance, or keep it for DD next year as she is on the dinky side.

Lucy5781

@goldfinches The fish ice cube tray is, I think, Ikea, we have one

goldfinches

Waving enthusiastically to everyone.   

I'm really enjoying hearing about others finds and especially relishing the photos which are so much better than my rather limited imagination. So here are two photos of my finds from Saturday and today.

First, I was thrilled to find this blue trivet in the Age UK shop for £1.99 as I have one which gets a lot of use and when I bought it years ago, from Wilco I think, it was the only one in stock and I never managed to coincide with another. As you can see they are identical except Saturday's find (bottom one) is in better condition.



Then, this afternoon, I found these things in the Oxfam shop. 



In a slightly spooky twist of fate as I left my front door this afternoon I had been thinking to myself that it might be a good idea to buy a fold-away waterproof in a pocket type of thing to keep permanently in my bag as the weather has become so changeable lately and hey presto there was one in the tights basket for 99p. I plan to take the sistema container on my first blackberrying outing of this year tomorrow as it's lovely and shallow and just the right size for my hands. The spaghetti measurer is still in its original packaging and the tiny frying pan just needed a clean around the joint between the handle and the body.

Happy hunting to all, goldfinches. 

CAFCGirl

Another 3 houseplant pots joined the collection for me, at £1 each.

I'm still umming and ahhing over another one I spotted.
I fear the difference in prices between shops has spoilt me.
One shop had one at £3.50, quite nice, but a frequently found size, so I left it. 
Visited another shop, and found 3 at £1 each of similar size.

So lesson here, check the cheaper shop first perhaps ?

Also been given the mission of finding 32inch waist shorts for DH but specifically longer 'skate boarders' length ones... on or just under the knee. Fear it may be easier to find unicorn droppings but will keep on the hunt.

Pollycat

CAFCGirl said:

Another 3 houseplant pots joined the collection for me, at £1 each.

I'm still umming and ahhing over another one I spotted.
I fear the difference in prices between shops has spoilt me.
One shop had one at £3.50, quite nice, but a frequently found size, so I left it. 
Visited another shop, and found 3 at £1 each of similar size.

So lesson here, check the cheaper shop first perhaps ?

Also been given the mission of finding 32inch waist shorts for DH but specifically longer 'skate boarders' length ones... on or just under the knee. Fear it may be easier to find unicorn droppings but will keep on the hunt.

In the past I've bought OH quite a few pairs in this size and style.
I've not looked recently though as he has enough pairs for now.

CAFCGirl

Pollycat said:

CAFCGirl said:

Another 3 houseplant pots joined the collection for me, at £1 each.

I'm still umming and ahhing over another one I spotted.
I fear the difference in prices between shops has spoilt me.
One shop had one at £3.50, quite nice, but a frequently found size, so I left it. 
Visited another shop, and found 3 at £1 each of similar size.

So lesson here, check the cheaper shop first perhaps ?

Also been given the mission of finding 32inch waist shorts for DH but specifically longer 'skate boarders' length ones... on or just under the knee. Fear it may be easier to find unicorn droppings but will keep on the hunt.

In the past I've bought OH quite a few pairs in this size and style.
I've not looked recently though as he has enough pairs for now.

I fear the local demographic of our small market town bustling with the over 60's age range will affect my hunt, but its a challenge if nothing else