Charity Shopping - bargains galore for 2021!

Brie

goldfinches said:

I know what you mean about the ramekins, they're suddenly everywhere 

I use mine to collect seeds in the garden.  Pop a label so I remember what's what and then leave them in the greenhouse until spring time when supposedly I can plant them.

mandy47

Miró said:

@goldfinches  Ooooh I found one of those diddy Mason Cash mixing bowls in my local community chazza....20p and mixed in with all those ramekins you get free with posh yogurt in them!

The glass ramekins make excellent tea light holders. Lovely in the garden when friends come round.

Potternerd

This week:
Elle dark navy Capri PE leggings £4
Big teacup white with red and blue hearts £1
Oval Woolworths Fibre blue and white China vintage plate. They go for £25 ish on eBay I discovered but it’s for me to use £1
These lovely Mackintosh style silver earrings £8
I also got a pair of denim dungaree shorts for £15 but they don’t fit so are going back. Probably a good thing as I’m a bit old and chubby kneed.

DigForVictory

Brie said:

I've got 3 pairs of their summer jeans - purple, lime green & flourescent orange.  Whether they are a good look for someone of my girth probably shouldn't be considered.

*** If you love them, that really is what matters. There only are so many ****s to give in life. ****

goldfinches said

A good test for trousers is whether or not one can swing ones foot hard enough to boot any richly deserving person e.g. a politician, up the backside effectively and would you mind answering the door to a stranger while wearing them. If you like purple, lime green & fluorescent orange that's it and all about it. 

**** love it! Next political canvasser “would you wait a moment?”.. then test out the trous

Owain_Moneysaver said:

Larousse Gastronomique: The World's Greatest Cookery Encyclopedia
£75 new hardback in slipcase for £5. Sense. 

*** and not just horse sense. I have my grandmother’s copy, with her annotations & a cheap reprint I use to hold the laptop at the right height *** 

Brie said:

I've had one of these for more decades than I care to admit.  Do tell me if you find a recipe for elephant feet.  I'm sure I  saw one once but have never seen it since so perhaps it was my imagination or a different book.  Not that I would ever want to try elephant feet but my recollection was that it was something that required a gentleman on safari to be accompanied by his fully equipped French chef and a suitable selection of wines.

**** may I scrounge an invitation to such a spectacular recollection?! For that sort of lifestyle, I might even assume the role of spiritualist advisor (not quite servant & no corsets but possibly fraudulent).

That Man found a Tilley hat, unworn & unloved for 99 pence. It’s latest incarnation (lacking the lovely bilingual wash instructions) retails at £65! I need to wear it in the rain to persuade it to give a little around the temples but it’s a matter of millimetres…

Floss

DfV, I once plonked my ex-husbands Tilley on my head & tweaked it slightly. He was extremely put out that it suited me an awful lot more than him 😁

DigForVictory

There was no argument as I put him onto a survey & the interview fee bought him a new Tilley (as you say, devastating smart!) & so the find was clearly intended for Me!

Owain_Moneysaver

goldfinches said:

 Do tell me if you find a recipe for elephant feet. 

I'm thrilled to hear about this recipe and want desperately to read it for myself. I can't find it in the index of my copy of The New Concise Larousse Gastronomique but there is a paragraph about elephants in the text from which I copied this. 

My book has the same text. A quick google suggests that elephant's foot (you hav eto exclude the elephant's foot yam from searches) takes something like Spam.

goldfinches

@Brie and @mandy47 - thankyou for the suggestions for the glass ramekins, I knew they would come in useful one day.

@Potternerd - very elegant earrings, shame about the shorts.

@DigForVictory - the idea of an uncorseted and fraudulent spiritualist advisor is making me howl with laughter. Bags I be the official photographer of the safari then, with the aid of a few dozen porters I'm sure I could manage adequately.
If you're after rain, come to the Thames Valley, it's wet, wet, and more wet here.

@Owain_Moneysaver - thanks for looking in your copy and online, I might try picking the brains of one of the specialist librarians at our County HQ sometime in case the source hasn't yet been digitised.

I came across this Find a charity e-shop - Charity Retail Association link in an article in the Guardian yesterday and thought I'd put it up here for all on this thread to see. Some charities have just the one online outlet and others have put individual branches online via lots of different types of quite specialised selling routes so it's interesting to browse through.

Then, finally, here are my today's finds. A mid size Mason Cash mixing bowl which I'm a bit irked to find has a chip in the glaze which was hidden by the price sticker so I didn't find it until I unpacked the bowl at home. It was £6 from the Mind shop and I think I won't complain and will keep it but in future I'll check everything from there more thoroughly before paying.
I also bought this watercolour of a local scene, £10, because the buildings are rendered so accurately which isn't usually the case.



Then I completely fell for these piggies who just made me smile when I saw them so I paid the Hospice shop £10 for them.



Great aren't they, I think I'll hang them in the hall to greet me on my return home. My favourite is that little pink one at the top on the right whose ears are pointing straight up.

Happy hunting to all, goldfinches.

C_J

ooh, @goldfinches, you have a David Meeks! He's my third favourite local watercolour artist, after (firstly) the late Ken Messer, and (secondly) William North.

I think the Bod has an online version of Larousse Gastronomique, so am happy to look up anything for anyone, just shout.

DigForVictory

@goldfinches, it is Brie's imagination we are travelling through, I'm hoping she won't mind a spiritualist advisor & photographer, alongside her gentleman, the cook & the wines...
As for the weather, I'm based in Lancashire & the local area is nicknamed Wetly Green. Those hot weeks were an aberration!

I think the Acquiz Committee has a closet Denbyholic as its chair - or maybe he'll do Anything to get me to take exercise.
Either way, I saw a patch of old gold glowing in the YMCA Colne window & managed to abide by most of their removed covid security measures as I pleaded with someone to remove it from the window so I could buy it. Each Denby Ode piece properly wrapped & sold to me in a Julien Macdonald (sp?) for Asda bag! Himself spotted a fleece in his size & also a fake racoon cap, so the bag appeared to have a tail sticking out...
The market stall with the lovely assortment of china had a patch of Denby blue, all post 1997 so I have I think at least 3 patterns & a certain amount of happy snarling at internet photos (the saucers are blue jetty blue, the cups that Shape, but duck egg blue inside & out & there's a bowl with a very tricky to place profile that has the basestamp but no other clues! The frustration is part of the fun.... Really it is.