Charity Shopping - New to You in '22!

Pollycat

Miro

I love that cardigan but do understand what you mean about the fabric. My friend bought one from Debenhams and decided she didn't like the fabric either.

Miró

Pollycat said:

Miro

I love that cardigan but do understand what you mean about the fabric. My friend bought one from Debenhams and decided she didn't like the fabric either.

Thanks….glad to hear it’s not just me being ‘picky’.  I guess it explains why it has ended up in TkMax!  Will be returning it even tho I love the style/colours etc.  Even with a fine long sleeved t shirt underneath I still would not like the feel of it.😞

liberty_lily

Wednesday2000 said:

liberty_lily said:

Love Pollycat's brooch, btw 😍 although I'm also not a brooch person...don't think I own a single one these days although I did have some huge diamanté ones in the late '80s when I was a student 😀 

Pics or it didn't happen!

Lol 😂 I'm still searching for the pics of when I had my hair extensions done at Antenna 😁 Annoyingly, with all the upheaval of our DIY building work, stuff is proving hard to locate 😪

Wednesday2000

I looked back and the last time I bought something from a charity shop was the 21st October so I managed to resist for 10 days. I snapped and went out to a charity shop today and bought a few new things.

I bought myself a £1 John Lewis red jumper, a £1 men's T-shirt for bed and three jewelry boxes. One was a really nice glass one with butterflies on it and the other two were smaller and purple and also shaped like butterflies. I will use the smaller ones for rings and earrings. I got a "silver" star necklace too. I got my husband a black gilet and a blue top.

I did see a box outside the shop with some celeb autobiographies as I have been reading a few lately but they weren't any I would be interested in. Gareth Southgate, Harry Rednapp, Robbie Williams, Peter Crouch... Not my type of thing at all!

Brie

wondercollie said:

We have Robins year round in my part of  Canada, I've always wondered by they dont migrate during winter but they are pretty hardy

I may have asked previously but have forgotten the answer.  Whereabouts in Canada?  I've just returned from Fonthill, near Niagara Falls.  Saw a couple of robins but they won't be there in another month as it's the same weather as Buffalo come winter - aka desperately cold.

Miró

A quick gallop around Ripon this morning....came away with a BNWT cream extra long valance sheet for £2.99 and an M & S crisp white cotton shirt, fitted stylee with those non-gape buttons, also BNWT original price £29.95 but mine for £5.99.

If anyone remembers my recent find of a B/N Reiss jacket.....found the matching trousers on one of those websites that sells off old stock for £19.99.  So, the original cost of the outfit would have been £311....but mine for £69.98....so pleased 

rchj4

Pollycat said:

A tad off-topic...but just putting my coat away from yesterday and I wondered if anyone else likes brooches?
I have a brooch on every coat and if I get rid of one or buy another (coat), they all come out and I swap the brooches around.
The one on the teddy coat I've just bought was a birthday gift from my wonderfully thoughtful sister.
When we meet up, we watch Bargain Hunt and this was one of the items the team looked at.
I said' I'd buy that and wear it'.
She stored the thought away and trawled through eBay until she found one.
It's a copy of a George Jensen style:
originals on eBay for anything up to £690. 

I keep hearing on antiques programmes that brooches are out of fashion.

I love brooches & have started wearing them again . At first I thought this was a genuine Georg Jensen one . Lovely . I have a few  ' real ' ones but most of mine are costume jewellery . No Jensen ones alas .

Pollycat

rchj4 said:

Pollycat said:

A tad off-topic...but just putting my coat away from yesterday and I wondered if anyone else likes brooches?
I have a brooch on every coat and if I get rid of one or buy another (coat), they all come out and I swap the brooches around.
The one on the teddy coat I've just bought was a birthday gift from my wonderfully thoughtful sister.
When we meet up, we watch Bargain Hunt and this was one of the items the team looked at.
I said' I'd buy that and wear it'.
She stored the thought away and trawled through eBay until she found one.
It's a copy of a George Jensen style:
originals on eBay for anything up to £690. 

I keep hearing on antiques programmes that brooches are out of fashion.

I love brooches & have started wearing them again . At first I thought this was a genuine Georg Jensen one . Lovely . I have a few  ' real ' ones but most of mine are costume jewellery . No Jensen ones alas .

Hi

Sorry to confuse.
The one in this photo IS a genuine GJ (copied from eBay).
Mine on my teddy coat posted last Friday is the copy.
Nice to hear other people like brooches too.

Rosa_Damascena

Wednesday2000 said:

I looked back and the last time I bought something from a charity shop was the 21st October so I managed to resist for 10 days. I snapped and went out to a charity shop today and bought a few new things.

I bought myself a £1 John Lewis red jumper, a £1 men's T-shirt for bed and three jewelry boxes. One was a really nice glass one with butterflies on it and the other two were smaller and purple and also shaped like butterflies. I will use the smaller ones for rings and earrings. I got a "silver" star necklace too. I got my husband a black gilet and a blue top.

I did see a box outside the shop with some celeb autobiographies as I have been reading a few lately but they weren't any I would be interested in. Gareth Southgate, Harry Rednapp, Robbie Williams, Peter Crouch... Not my type of thing at all!

I read this one, its more like a self-help book. 

Resistance is futile btw...

Pollycat

Yesterday I bought a TU workout top in lovely colours. £2.00 Air Ambulance.
And a pair of black sheepskin gloves that fit me well (I have very small hands). These look unworn. I wasn't 100% sure they were sheepskin at first as the fur is long and it looks like it could be acrylic. But they are definitely sheepskin. £2.50 Mencap.