Charity Shopping - bargains galore for 2021!

goldfinches

I did a sort of charity shop tour this afternoon by bicycle and managed to visit a couple of shops I haven't been to in a while, I was hoping for a fluorescent cycling jacket to wear now the evenings are getting darker but wasn't lucky. However I did come across these rather beguiling books which were all 99p except the WI at £1.99 and the D.G. Hessayon was only 50p.

Pollycat

I love clever quotations.

Yesterday I bought a Debenhams Petite cardigan in dark grey with black trim. Nice black bobble buttons and 2 faux pockets with bows. VGC, no bobbling at all. £2.00 Air Ambulance

Brie

opinion please on a wedding present....not at all charity shop related but it is second hand.

So when OH & I got engaged sometime in the last century vague relatives gave us a copy of Reader's Digest Cook Book.  We've used it often over the decades but it is still in very good nick.  

A cousin's daughter is now getting married and the OH has suggested giving this cook book to her and her beau due in part to the congrats to us written inside from the relatives who are more directly related to her being her great aunt and uncle.

I think it's a very nice sentiment but wonder if someone aged shy of 30 would even use a cook book.  Thoughts??

Pollycat

Brie said:

opinion please on a wedding present....not at all charity shop related but it is second hand.

So when OH & I got engaged sometime in the last century vague relatives gave us a copy of Reader's Digest Cook Book.  We've used it often over the decades but it is still in very good nick.  

A cousin's daughter is now getting married and the OH has suggested giving this cook book to her and her beau due in part to the congrats to us written inside from the relatives who are more directly related to her being her great aunt and uncle.

I think it's a very nice sentiment but wonder if someone aged shy of 30 would even use a cook book.  Thoughts??

I think there'll be people under 30 who will like cooking but probably more who don't.
You need to know which category your cousin's daughter falls into.

And if the recipes are the sort she would want to cook anyway.

And if she will appreciate the gift.

I love cooking, and have a lot of cookbooks.
But I don't use them that often, I tend to Google for a recipe.

Miró

Recent purchases include:-

A Land's End BNWT white long sleeved t shirt in Tencel, 4.99
M & S wine coloured winter weight wide legged trousers, £4.45
Fox & Ivy candle, 99p
M & S clover pink elbow length sleeved t shirt, 99p
M & S tan coloured leather gloves BNWT, £2.95....got home and was putting them away when I spotted the exact same pair already in my glove drawer, (aaaah, senior blonde moment!!!).  Will put them in the present box ready for Christmas gifting!

Rosa_Damascena

Brie said:

opinion please on a wedding present....not at all charity shop related but it is second hand.

So when OH & I got engaged sometime in the last century vague relatives gave us a copy of Reader's Digest Cook Book.  We've used it often over the decades but it is still in very good nick.  

A cousin's daughter is now getting married and the OH has suggested giving this cook book to her and her beau due in part to the congrats to us written inside from the relatives who are more directly related to her being her great aunt and uncle.

I think it's a very nice sentiment but wonder if someone aged shy of 30 would even use a cook book.  Thoughts??

I would give it to her when you are ready to part with it, on the grounds of sentiment alone rather than as a wedding gift. Its the heirloom factor that is key.

killerpeaty

@Brie I think it works if they like cooking, plenty of under thirties like cooking. In my mid twenties I had a boyfriend whose idea of a good time was spending 4 hours cooking. It was terrible. You could give it in addition to a "safer" gift.

On holiday this week, managed to go to a town near me. Got a pair of green jeans for £5, a blouse for the sister for £3 (she was dithering about it and so I just took it out of her hands and bought it before she could change her mind), a shirt which is a gift for my friend £5, my sister got me a basket for Christmas £5, two paintings for £5 each and my mum got a bag (a brand I've heard of but can't spell Fioreli?) For £10. Yesterday went to a different town and went to 5 charity shops and purchased nothing.

Sayschezza

BNWT Principles trousers in pale brick? £1
Next tee as new £2
Monsoon blouse £3
2 cut glass tea light holders £1 each
Pear shaped large Chrystal £1
Pretty pendant on chain necklace £1
2 books £1

goldfinches

@Brie - I think it works if either of them like cooking or would enjoy being given a family heirloom item and think @killerpeaty's suggestion of a "safer" gift as well a good one.

I had another fruitless hunt for a reflective jacket this morning and instead managed to bargain for these rather lovely pink clogs which were priced at £25 and subsequently reduced by the lovely volunteer in the hospice shop to £10. The soles look entirely unworn too.



After several years of wearing only walking shoes, the extra couple of inches height that these give me is rather a revelation, I intended them for nipping out to the bins and so on but having realised that the straps are not merely decorative I may now wear them in public.

Rosa_Damascena

goldfinches said:

After several years of wearing only walking shoes, the extra couple of inches height that these give me is rather a revelation, I intended them for nipping out to the bins and so on but having realised that the straps are not merely decorative I may now wear them in public.

With or without the socks?

Seriously, they are statement! I think they would look good with jeans and a white blouse, nothing too fussy.