Charity Shopping - New to You in '22!

Rosa_Damascena

I nearly visited charity shops on my way home but desisted as I had so many wonderful bargains already!

Yes, save some goodies for the rest of us! 

Today I bought 2 books for 30p each from a local chazzer, and a nice bundle of from my local library for 20p each including a Booker Prize winner and one that is suitable for gifting. Also a couple of packs of Disney post-it notes (250 per pack) for my little niece for 50p each, she likes writing messages in "best writing" so she will be thrilled.

Cherryfudge

Rosa_Damascena said:

I nearly visited charity shops on my way home but desisted as I had so many wonderful bargains already!

Yes, save some goodies for the rest of us! 

Today I bought 2 books for 30p each from a local chazzer, and a nice bundle of from my local library for 20p each including a Booker Prize winner and one that is suitable for gifting. Also a couple of packs of Disney post-it notes (250 per pack) for my little niece for 50p each, she likes writing messages in "best writing" so she will be thrilled.

You would have loved that car boot sale @Rosa_Damascena! I think you are at the wrong end of the country though.

Excellent value on your books and the post-it notes. A good day's hunting all round!

Rosa_Damascena

I forgot to say, I also bought these yesterday for 50p not quite knowing what they are but seeing the potential to hang stuff from them:


Google tells me they are clips to hold down tablecloths, handy for the summer I suppose.

Pollycat

Rosa_Damascena said:

I forgot to say, I also bought these yesterday for 50p not quite knowing what they are but seeing the potential to hang stuff from them:


Google tells me they are clips to hold down tablecloths, handy for the summer I suppose.

I recognise those.
Restaurants in Greece and Turkey have them but usually in chrome.

DigForVictory

Youngest uses them to hold paper onto his easel, local museum stall at events uses them to hold table cloth & signage in place - theirs are steel.

killerpeaty

Looks handy for when you have a 6 year old whose idea of dinner time is grab at random and run!

goldfinches

I snapped up a copy of Ottolenghi's Nopi, £8, in the hospice shop and then across the road in the Oxfam shop bric-a-brac basket I found two cherry stoners, £1.49 and 99p, and bought both as I couldn't decide which would work better. I also found an unusual shape baking tin, £1.49, a storage tin with a see through lid, 99p, a Pasta Evangelists ravioli cutter, £2.99 and an olive/pickled onion spoon, 99p.



I knew if I just waited long enough that a cherry stoner would come along but to find two together seems almost miraculous. I plan to test them thoroughly on cherries and olives and then go from there, does anyone find them good for sloes? I ended up composting the sloes left over after I'd drunk my gin as the flesh didn't taste nice enough to be worth the labour of stoning them, what do others do?

Rosa_Damascena

I love my kitchen gadgets! I don't think my mum was impressed when she was helping me put my kitchen back together and found 3 cherry pitters 

Did you really pay £8 for the cookbook?

Cherryfudge

I seem to remember nibbling on the sloes left over after making sloe gin! Maybe add more sugar?

Miró

goldfinches said:

I snapped up a copy of Ottolenghi's Nopi, £8, in the hospice shop and then across the road in the Oxfam shop bric-a-brac basket I found two cherry stoners, £1.49 and 99p, and bought both as I couldn't decide which would work better. I also found an unusual shape baking tin, £1.49, a storage tin with a see through lid, 99p, a Pasta Evangelists ravioli cutter, £2.99 and an olive/pickled onion spoon, 99p.



I knew if I just waited long enough that a cherry stoner would come along but to find two together seems almost miraculous. I plan to test them thoroughly on cherries and olives and then go from there, does anyone find them good for sloes? I ended up composting the sloes left over after I'd drunk my gin as the flesh didn't taste nice enough to be worth the labour of stoning them, what do others do?

I made sloe gin jam one year....it was OK-ish but fiddly getting the stones out...I think I used a potato masher after gently simmering the sloes before adding the sugar.

Picked up a pair of beige chinos by Casual Club in Age Concern in Northallerton yesterday for £3.25.  Nice fit and lovely 'Softall' fabric.