Charity Shopping - bargains galore for 2021!

killerpeaty

Pollycat said:

Floss said:

Pollycat said:

DigForVictory said:

Unless they've rubber pads on the bottom, creeping up on someone is a very fine motor control job, but they are comfortable beyond words. Stand by for all sorts of Northern jokes, mind. Why the clog appears to be exclusively worn with a flat cap & whippet I have yet to fathom. Anyone making uncalled for jokes involving black pudding can be kicked...
[Southern-born economic migrant North, with healthy respect for the terrain, the people & the footwear!]

Where's the ferret? 

Does anyone remember Ripping Yarns and black pudding?
"even the white bits were black".

I love black pudding.

Up someone's trousers?

Isn't it 'down' rather than 'up'? 

The nineties were wild. I remember when the Gameboy sp came out they had a campaign about how it's the second most fun you can have in the dark. I'm not sure how old I was but possibly early to mid teens and I would think "I hope my mum doesn't get that" ahahahhaha

DigForVictory

Researching, it’s ferrets Down the trousers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret-legging
Makes me glad to be in Lancashire away from the wild folk of Yorkshire said to be still competing….

goldfinches

DigForVictory said:

Researching, it’s ferrets Down the trousers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret-legging
Makes me glad to be in Lancashire away from the wild folk of Yorkshire said to be still competing….

Shrieks of horror from this direction although I was glad to read this sentence "An attempt to introduce a female version of the sport—ferret busting, in which female contestants introduced ferrets down their blouses—proved unsuccessful."
The things men will do after a pint or twenty, eh! 

I did another bicycle tour in search of a fluorescent jacket today and didn't find one but did run across a Pyrex pie plate and a Simon Hopkinson cookbook so it wasn't an entirely wasted effort.
I would just like to point out to those people with responsibility for laying out bike lanes that expecting riders to levitate is unrealistic and unlikely to win you friends or influence others in your favour. 

cbsexec

A win for me today.  My local hospice shop has a half price sale.   Got a lovely pair of Oska trousers £2.  Googled the make and their trousers seem to retail at over £100 😱.  

Rosa_Damascena

I was chazzi-lucki this afternoon!

I bought an adjustable laptop rest for £2, 4 plates to match my own set for £1, a book that I'd wanted to read for ages for 50p, a KitchenCraft salad spinner for £1 (costs £15 new) and the cherry on the cake was a huge Tiffany-style lamp shade for all of £1! Not a weighty leadlight piece, but decorative enough until I find the right light for my entrance hallway.



And here's the lit shade in its 28"diameter glory!!

goldfinches

@Rosa_Damascena - snap to the salad spinner, I have the exact same one sitting on my kitchen worktop and find it strangely soothing to stand looking out of the window while turning the handle. Very pretty lamp shade too.

While searching, still fruitlessly, for a fluorescent cycling jacket I ran across a cake carrier, £3.99, Pat Chapman's Taste of the Raj, £2, and a germinator for sprouts, £2, in my favourite BHF shop. Here they are.



I love the bioSnacky name, really satisfying to speak out loud (go on, you know you want to!). Whoever coined that can give themselves a pat on the back and I hope they got a nice bonus that month/year.

Brie

Did a thorough clean in the bedroom yesterday and discovered various bottles of lotions and potions were starting to leave marks on the wooden surfaces.  I've decided I will start trolling the shops for suitable defences such as those laminated cork backed placemats or glass pieces of some sort.   need some coasters or similar to go on the bed side tables as well. 

I blame all of you!!

Miró

From Northallerton on Saturday...a wide Brax leather belt with a muted silver & gold snakeskin pattern on the leather. BNWT with original price of 39.95 euros...mine for £5...quite like the idea of a bit of discrete 'bling'!  Also got a pair of petrol blue trousers from M & Co, BNWT and originally priced at £26...mine for £4.50.  Friend got a beautiful Villeroy & Boch large bowl in porcelain with an art deco pattern round the rim and a George Stubbs stylee horse in a woodland glade inside.  £3.50 and in perfect condition, (we gave it the ping test).

Miró

Been fancying a navy blazer for a while now.  My ideal would be longer length, slightly oversized but with shape.  Today in the Cancer Research shop in the city centre I found one almost perfect, M & S, BNWT, was £55 but chazza price £7.95….only problem…it was black not navy!  Anyhoo, prepared to compromise as the Reiss one I have been lusting after was just shy of £300!!!!!  Yesterday I picked up a pair of Lands End slimfit trousers in a grey and light blue pretend tartan b/n for £3 in the hospice chazza and in the community shop I found a pair of dark grey & white pin striped jeans on the sale rail for £1.  Still seems to be loads of brand new stuff in the charity shops….I guess some people buy online now and never get around to returning it?

killerpeaty

Wow @Miró you got some amazing buys.

Today I found a bowl that matches the one mum asked for for her birthday. The last one cost £15, this one was £3!