Charity Shopping - New to You in '22!

Rosa_Damascena

The coat is a very good buy!

YoungBlueEyes

@pollycat come get me next time you go shopping, there’s no bargains like that where I am! 🥲

Pollycat

Potternerd said:

Ooh @Pollycat you’re having lots of lovely leather bargains I’m v envious.

over the last week:
Mothercare Nanu buggy for  DGS weekly stay £12 has the hood, rain cover etc.
Black Lee Cooper T-shirt £2
Black Sketchers T-shirt £2
White Karrimore PE top £2
2 blue and white medium sized Cornishware style plates one with three blue stripes, the other with two £1 rack.
A Topshop denim dress with short sleeves and big patch pockets on the skirt £6. It’s quite short so I’ll wear it as a tunic over skinny jeans, leggings or thick tights.

Thanks.
I've always wanted a classic leather coat, they were very popular in the late 60s, early 70s.
After my first week at work, aged 17, I put a deposit down on a green one from my wage packet.
I was earning less than £3 10 shillings.
When I got home, my Mum took my wage packet, gave me enough for bus fare for the following week and a bit of spending money.
She kept the rest and made me go into the shop and cancel the coat.

Re the denim dress/tunic - that's my look. 
I'd wear with DMs or other flat boots.
Or maybe my new blue & snakeskin brogues.

I tried on a TU dress like yours yesterday but the pockets were in the side seams and didn't lay right.

Pollycat

YoungBlueEyes said:

@pollycat come get me next time you go shopping, there’s no bargains like that where I am! 🥲

I would if you were local.
Even better than finding a charity shop bargain is finding a bargain and sharing it with a friend you're shopping with.

YoungBlueEyes

Aye I know what you mean. 

When we moved in here, my nice next door neighbour came round to say hi. Turns out we’ve got similar dress sense and she loves a cs too. It was the best thing I’d heard since “your offer’s been accepted”! 

General_Grant

Pollycat said:

Potternerd said:

Ooh @Pollycat you’re having lots of lovely leather bargains I’m v envious.

over the last week:
Mothercare Nanu buggy for  DGS weekly stay £12 has the hood, rain cover etc.
Black Lee Cooper T-shirt £2
Black Sketchers T-shirt £2
White Karrimore PE top £2
2 blue and white medium sized Cornishware style plates one with three blue stripes, the other with two £1 rack.
A Topshop denim dress with short sleeves and big patch pockets on the skirt £6. It’s quite short so I’ll wear it as a tunic over skinny jeans, leggings or thick tights.

Thanks.
I've always wanted a classic leather coat, they were very popular in the late 60s, early 70s.
After my first week at work, aged 17, I put a deposit down on a green one from my wage packet.
I was earning less than £3 10 shillings.
When I got home, my Mum took my wage packet, gave me enough for bus fare for the following week and a bit of spending money.
She kept the rest and made me go into the shop and cancel the coat.

Re the denim dress/tunic - that's my look. 
I'd wear with DMs or other flat boots.
Or maybe my new blue & snakeskin brogues.

I tried on a TU dress like yours yesterday but the pockets were in the side seams and didn't lay right.

Off topic I know but . . .
I had a first job at 17 too - certainly less than a fiver in my weekly pay packet but I don't recall how much less.
However I had already told my mother how much I proposed giving her for my keep and she never got her hands on my pay packet.
I suspect I actually offered more than she would have planned to take but she definitely didn't think I should have been the one to propose an amount.

Pollycat

General_Grant said:

Pollycat said:

Potternerd said:

Ooh @Pollycat you’re having lots of lovely leather bargains I’m v envious.

over the last week:
Mothercare Nanu buggy for  DGS weekly stay £12 has the hood, rain cover etc.
Black Lee Cooper T-shirt £2
Black Sketchers T-shirt £2
White Karrimore PE top £2
2 blue and white medium sized Cornishware style plates one with three blue stripes, the other with two £1 rack.
A Topshop denim dress with short sleeves and big patch pockets on the skirt £6. It’s quite short so I’ll wear it as a tunic over skinny jeans, leggings or thick tights.

Thanks.
I've always wanted a classic leather coat, they were very popular in the late 60s, early 70s.
After my first week at work, aged 17, I put a deposit down on a green one from my wage packet.
I was earning less than £3 10 shillings.
When I got home, my Mum took my wage packet, gave me enough for bus fare for the following week and a bit of spending money.
She kept the rest and made me go into the shop and cancel the coat.

Re the denim dress/tunic - that's my look. 
I'd wear with DMs or other flat boots.
Or maybe my new blue & snakeskin brogues.

I tried on a TU dress like yours yesterday but the pockets were in the side seams and didn't lay right.

Off topic I know but . . .
I had a first job at 17 too - certainly less than a fiver in my weekly pay packet but I don't recall how much less.
However I had already told my mother how much I proposed giving her for my keep and she never got her hands on my pay packet.
I suspect I actually offered more than she would have planned to take but she definitely didn't think I should have been the one to propose an amount.

I've posted on a number of threads about how I felt felt growing up as an eldest child in a family that didn't have a lot of money.
Especially when my best friend was an only child to not-young parents and with a grandad living with them.
There was no choice about paying board, my Mother physically took my pay packet each week.
My younger sister (4 years) paid board and my youngest sister who paid nothing at all.
I felt very hard done by.
But I was long gone by then.

I think that went some way to me leaving home aged 20.

Apologies for going off topic but maybe my history goes some way to explaining my charity shop spending.
At least it didn't manifest itself into serious spending in 'proper' shops.

Brie

Pollycat said:

how I felt felt growing up as an eldest child in a family that didn't have a lot of money.

I think that went some way to me leaving home aged 20.

Apologies for going off topic but maybe my history goes some way to explaining my charity shop spending.
At least it didn't manifest itself into serious spending in 'proper' shops.

It's been interesting as an adult getting to better know my brothers.  I'm the youngest and only female and the difference is amazing between how badly/unfairly my oldest (by 6 years) brother feels he was treated and how me as youngest was.  And then there's the difference based on the fact that they are males and I'm not - apparently, I had to be looked after which is probably why I found them all so very annoying and interfering!  And have to either ignore their opinions completely or ensure that they know I'm right and they're wrong.  

Strange what one's childhood does.....

florianatwobob

@Brie I’m youngest of four. Two brothers, one sister. The age gaps are 14 years, 13 years and 10 years. My sister is the closest in age to me. Growing up at times it was like having 3 siblings, being an only child and having 5 parents. Sometimes all 3 things in the same day! 

The younger of my two brothers always felt like I got away with things they wouldn’t. 

Wednesday2000

I have a brother who is 7 years younger, but we are very close despite the age difference. We like the same sort of films and music. Maybe I am just immature for my age.

I have my flu jab tomorrow afternoon and I am going to look in a few charity shops beforehand.:)