Charity Shopping - New to You in '22!

Pollycat

Pollycat said:

Miró said:
Can I have a little moan please?  Thoroughly fed up at the mo...everything I do seems to go wrong.  Today's 'disaster.'....went to get some cash from an ATM this morning...the cash started coming out of the machine then shot back inside and the flappy bit closed???  My account has been debited soooo no doubt it will be a nightmare trying to get this sorted now....aaarrrggghhh   (Soz - just needed to vent)

Hope it's not too much of a pain to sort out, Miro.

Here's my little moan (and latest purchase):
I'm off to Liverpool on Tuesday, staying overnight.
I got my little wheely case out and noticed that the wheels are shredding.

Damn.
I intended to buy a new 4 wheel one but I don't have time to do the research and get one that I want before Tuesday so I did a quick trip round the 5 charity shops in our town.
I managed to find one - a boring navy one, not my style at all - in clean condition for £4.00.
So I'll use that and donate it back when I've bought one that I really want, probably in the New Year sales.

The case is ready to go back to a charity shop, full of 2 sets of decent 100% cotton bedding (OH hates fitted sheets), a M&S padded coat (outed to make room for my Mountain Warehouse down coat), plus a range of decent brand stuff - including Fat Face, Sea Salt, Maine, Per Una etc.
My local hospice shop doesn't take donations in the afternoon so I'll trundle it on the bus and drop it off at the bigger town shop.

Rosa_Damascena

YoungBlueEyes said:

I'm going to be a good girl and wait. Patience is a virtue and all that....

Not in this cold snap it's not. They are bought and paid for and needed now. Life is just too short! 

Potternerd

A bit of a random selection this week.

Barratts teal smallish shoulder bag. I’m pretty sure it’s leather. It has no label saying what it’s made of, but it’s buttery soft, £3
Small bath towel size  blue Turkish towel 50p. I’ve noticed they’re often in among the scarves.
Black and silver colour bracelet 50p.
Orange long sleeve slash necked Sandwich tee £1.
Peppa pig toilet seat for DGS £2.50
Harry Potter fold away into purse size bag £2.
Monsoon kids orange and red velvet denim jacket style jacket with red furry lining (for me) £6

goldfinches

I ventured out this afternoon for the first time for ages and after returning my overdue library book I had a mooch round my favourite BHF shop. Interestingly there were no nice bits of kitchen kit at all apart from 2 pie blackbirds that both had oddly painted heads and beaks, they looked as though they'd both had an accident in the kiln.
However, in the cookbooks section I found a copy of Alice Waters Chez Panisse for £2.50 so snapped it up along with a Penguin edition of one of Gerald Durrell's books about collecting in Africa, £2. Then I also bought Elinor Klivans Bake and Freeze Desserts again for £2.50. I then spent what may be an ill-advised £6 on The Coronation Book 1953 as given to Haberdashers Aske's School pupils in the hope that I can fleabay it next year to a royal memorabilia enthusiast so fingers crossed!
Hope you're all keeping warm and well, night all, goldfinches.

Brie

YoungBlueEyes said:

I'm going to be a good girl and wait. Patience is a virtue and all that....

I always think that Patience is the name of that prissy girl wearing too much lace and with ribbons in her long ringletted hair that is forever snitching on someone when they do something she doesn't like.  

Floss

Brie said:

YoungBlueEyes said:

I'm going to be a good girl and wait. Patience is a virtue and all that....

I always think that Patience is the name of that prissy girl wearing too much lace and with ribbons in her long ringletted hair that is forever snitching on someone when they do something she doesn't like.  

Wasn't that Violet Elizabeth Bott in the William books? Or Nellie Oleson in Little House on the Prairie?

YoungBlueEyes

Oh aye, Nellie Oleson. Wasn’t she a hateful little madam! 

Rosa_Damascena

I had a chaz-tastic afternoon - went for a walk in the sunshine and although I didn't need anything but couldn't resist dropping by the ones I was passing. Yield: a couple of brooches for £1.50 each, a good sized weekly planner for £1 and a well-insulated coat for £3 which I will get very good use out of when the others have past their prime. I'll post a pic once it's been laundered. Nowhere near as funky as yours I'm afraid @Potternerd , but will work great for wintry walks.

goldfinches

I always loathed Nellie Oleson too and would have slapped Violet Elizabeth Bott if I'd been William.
Our mother taught us this rhyme when we were small:

Patience is a virtue,
virtue is a grace,
and Grace was a little girl who never washed her face!

No outings for me today as I'm resting after yesterday's exertions but am having a think about what and where to donate next week as I've bought a lovely new Stellar pan set in the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales.

grandmanerd

Brie said:

re older siblings and hand me downs.  Yup, me too.  Hand me downs from my three brothers other than the dresses I had for school or church and the shoes I wore for special occasions (school was not special so if my brothers' shoes fit then that was fine.)

It was bizarre when at some point I got a hand me down dress from one of my numerous older female cousins.  I think I refused to wear it as it was just too odd to me. 

And my husband wonders sometimes why I don't dress up very feminine!

I can do better than this. In our family we had two red dressing gowns that were originally bought (don't know if they were new then) for my aunts - my father's  two  youngest siblings (there may have been a bit more money in the family at that time because the 3 older boys would have been working by then). They were then passed on to the daughters of the eldest son -  not too  much of a gap between grandma's youngest and her eldest grandchild. My female cousins are 3 and 6 years older than me so  we got them next.  Used by me, then my two  younger brothers. They were getting lighter by this time, from  years of washing (my aunts were born in the 1930's) but faded red not pink. They then went back to one of the original recipients and were used by her two boys - I'm 10 years older than the elder one, so my baby brother is 6 years older. I'll have to check with my cousin to see if there was anything left of them when youngest cousin was done with them. 

The only bought clothes I remember having came from my two older girl cousins, along with comics and books (after me there are 6 younger male cousins, the eldest male cousin is only 6 weeks older than me). I had dresses made from my dad's shirts turned back to front and a skirt and collar (or sleeve trimmings) in some lovely heavy check pattern fabric gifted by an aunt - I think it was supposed to be tablecloth cotton - one was a green gingham, my favourite a deep maroon red with lines across in yellow, white and maybe pale blue but I think there were four pieces of the same fabric in the package. 

Mum made all my clothes until I was 15 yo, her mum helped out with walking day dresses (and made the bouquets) and also a couple of outfits made from the leftovers of her own 'costumes'. At 8 yo I was labelled 'a Sunday School teacher' by some workmen who saw me in my little beige suit with bolero jacket and dark brown blouse with a pattern of tiny mustard flowers. i stopped mum making my clothes when I was 15 - she went shopping for material for my new trousers without me and came home with jumbo cord. Mum never had much luck sewing trousers and I looked like a brown bear (not a cute one, a big ugly tear your head off one) from the back.

At 17 I started making my own clothes - my first garment was a square necked, buttoned blouse with elaborate sleeves and a self -fabric drawstring tie at the waist. Mum said I couldn't have picked a more difficult pattern if I'd tried but I made that and a cream fake fur jacket and wore them to my eldest cousin's wedding (mum went majorly extravagant and bought my cream trousers from M n S). I've had hand me downs from many sources over the years - my aunt, my first pair of jeans were gifted by mum's male cousin (mum wouldn't let me have jeans, she was still trying to dress me like a doll), a friend of my parents who went to  live in Australia (she was younger than my parents and about 20 years younger in dress styles) and the daughter of one of mum's bosses, not to mention my s-i-l (my husband's gambling years when I went about dressed in t-shirts my brother had brought back from holidays and mum passed on to me) and a friend who'd gained weight steadily but still had bin bags full of clothes in all her previous sizes.

Then I got to wearing my son's clothes and ones that had been passed on from another playgroup helper whose sons were older than mine. I did sneak a couple of things from those bags only to be interrogated by 8 yo DS2 in the bathroom "Who's this Calvin Klein and why are you wearing his shirt?"

Sorry to intrude on your lovely thread - I was directed here by the advent calendar but I should get on and do some work.