Charity Shopping - bargains galore for 2021!

DigForVictory

This will sound bonkers but bear with me. I found a pot of sudocrem of the _tiny_ size you find in the Emma’s Diary gift bags for the newly pregnant, and (rummaging through hotel sewing kits) found another 2. For a pound. (With two money off vouchers for 75 pence!)
These little pots are Marvellous - they are so small you can take them down caves (I’ve caved with chaps who smooth talked these tubs from antenatal clinic staff!), or leave them safe in a handbag (unlike the new fancy “little sudocrem” pot which unscrews & ooozes…) & the only downside is they aren’t brim-ful as the bigger sizes. 

Plus, as only the pregnant can get them, a certain twinkly eyed mischief awaits.

Floss

D4V can they be refilled? 🤔

DigForVictory

Probably but I wouldn't care to swear to the bio-cleanliness. Says she contemplating it anyway. So long as its applied to self & family can't see the issue, but first aid kit maybe not.
Its glorious stuff thought & used on horses as well as dogs let alone their humans. Held out for nappy rash, it's antibacterial, antifungal & contains a very mild anaesthetic. Also handy for chafing, sunburn, scrapes, itches, insect bites, to discourage scarring & stretchmarks & (my eyes crossed!) great for dry heels I'm told. 

balabooberlies

Miró said:

Brie said:

@Miró
Do we not get a picture of the finished product????

Ta da!!!!!  If you look really really closely you will spot the glitchy bit…… 

I am just stunned by the talent of some people..........you are one of them.

bala

x

Miró

balabooberlies said:

Miró said:

Brie said:

@Miró
Do we not get a picture of the finished product????

Ta da!!!!!  If you look really really closely you will spot the glitchy bit…… 

I am just stunned by the talent of some people..........you are one of them.

bala

x

Awwww….what a lovely thing to say!  Thank you so much.  I haven”t done any knitting for about 20years so I thought I would have forgotten how….but it seems it’s rather like riding a bike!  xx

C_J

Mister CJ and I have been hankering after a nice Harris tweed wing back chair to go in a ‘reading corner’, but the one we found which we both liked was a (very) silly price. In a local charity warehouse on Saturday I snapped up a gorgeous Parker Knoll wing chair which fits the bill beautifully, for just £20. Well, the upholstery is ghastly but the bones of the chair are great. It’s currently in the reading corner with a throw over it while I ring around for reupholstery quotes/watch YouTube videos of DIY reupholstery and convince myself I could probably do it …..

Pollycat

I've found it!
I've found it!
I've been looked for s patterned fur coat for a while and found a leopard skin one in local hospice.
It's only F&F but in great condition and only £5.00.
Previous owner moved the giant press studs on one side but I'll unpick them and put them back.
Very pleased.

Miró

@Pollycat  Isn't it wonderful when that happens?!

 Had a little wander round the local chazza shops today....came home with a Therapy, mohair, elbow length sleeved, shorty cardi with a tie at the waist in an amethyst colour.  It has some not too blingy sequins knitted into the lacy pattern and I have just the perfect dress to go with it, (a chazza sourced Hobbs sleeveless dress in the same colour - feel happier with arms covered these days!!).  It was on the sale rail reduced from £4 to £2.  Also picked up a cute little box of lavender and bergamot soaps by the Scottish Soap Company for £4.95 which was a little overpriced I thought but I lurve nice smelly soaps.  Finally, I have been keeping an eye on a Calvin Klein b/n pure wool jumper dress in a charcoal shade in the BHF shop priced at £12.  My patience paid of, (for once), and it had been reduced to half price today.  I'm pretty sure that it is a genuine CK dress as the fabric is beautiful quality but the fit is really, really bad.  The long sleeves come a full 6ins below my fingertips, the underarm/sleeve bit is nearly at my waist and the boat neckline is baggy at the back.  I think it must be a design problem and that's why it had been handed in to the chazza.  Very weird!!  I'm sure I can do something with it tho.....says she hopefully 

Brie

@Miró
envious of your lavender and bergamot soap.  I keep waffling about trying to get some shower gel I like but it's £20 if I order it and only a 500ml.

Miró

Brie said:

@Miró
envious of your lavender and bergamot soap.  I keep waffling about trying to get some shower gel I like but it's £20 if I order it and only a 500ml.

I guess it's a particular one you are after?  I have noticed in some chazzas, BHF for e.g. in Yorkshire, (mebbe elsewhere), that M & S appear to have donated some discontinued stocks of toiletries,  Not the 'gift set' type of stuff but a more expensive range.  I remember seeing soap, EDT, bath gel, deodorant in  flowery smells.  It's hard sometimes paying proper prices for stuff when you are used to chazza bargains isn't it but it does then seem even more of a treat!!!