Charity Shopping - New to You in '22!

goldfinches

Snapped up this JosephJoseph cutlery drainer from the Oxfam shop for £1.99.

Paspatur

I agree with Potternerd about good quality & good condition 2nd hand clothes.
I've bought my OH a genuine Crombie coat for £15.00.
Checked very carefully before buying.
Price on Crombie website £495.
I'd rather he wore that than a brand new Next coat for £150.
You can tell quality and I'd rather he went to a family'do' in an expensive suit from a charity shop - even after dry cleaning - than a new one of lesser quality.

I wish I could find an original Crombie from the late 70's
I was the quality controller for Crombie from 1976 to 1980 and bought a coat with a huge staff discount which somehow got lost in a house move
As did my mum and dads Crombie woolen blankets which I bought at a discount for their 25th wedding anniversary
Standards were so high I had to tell managers with up to 40 years service to shut down production if I was not happy with the quality
Sore point now but we supplied the Russian Army with cloth for coats and once a year I was followed around by what I called the KGB checking my quality control results
Sadly the main production site which I worked at and which had been there since 1859 closed in 1990 and eventually turned into housing
When I worked there the company employed over 1,000 people
I remember my elderly GP saying that if you wanted to ruin a Crombie coat or suit you would need to shoot holes in it

Cherryfudge

Thirsk Cancer Research shop today: bought a thick grey throw to use as a sofa blanket in the colder months, £4.50. It called my name because it goes so well with the carpet in the lounge and should be very snuggly.

I also did very well out of the car boot sale, as did DH who bought a small picture (no idea what he paid for it) and a book that he may be able to sell on.

I found a Per Una hoodie for £1 and a cotton jumper also £1, then - amazingly - a beautiful Coast dress for £5! I'm not sure my creeping waistline will allow me to wear it, which would be a definite downside but I couldn't leave something that shape and colour sitting there looking gorgeous. My contribution to the 'new for wedding' debate is that if that dress fits, I would definitely wear it to a wedding, because it's very wedding-y but I understand people wanting to buy new for special occasions.

I also found three children's books for DGD at 50p each (great condition) and a clutch bag for 50p.

CatieE

goldfinches said:

Snapped up this JosephJoseph cutlery drainer from the Oxfam shop for £1.99.

That was a really good find. I am never as lucky

Pollycat

I bought 2 100% linen 'made in Italy' summer dresses from Mencap.
Same style, one is plain taupe, the other is a mix of navy and white.
Casual style with elasticated inset and side pockets.
Bizarrely, the plain one was £6.00 and the patterned one was £5.00.
I've seen these in a department store for around £40.00.

ETA
I also bought a Weird Fish short sleeve blue and white checked shirt for the OH from the same shop for £3.50.
He likes Weird Fish, Fat Face, Mantaray, Ben Sherman and Paul Smith.
He has 30+ short sleeved shirts - almost all from charity shops.
Is that excessive? 

Floss

I was in a nearby children's hospice shop yesterday, and found a BNWT black leather biker jacket for £19.99, along with a Next navy jumper with blue stars and a Matalan silky athleisure top in variegated pink/grey/blue both £4.99 each. Apparently it was this branch's turn for the Shop Direct company donations this week.

Wednesday2000

Cherryfudge said:

Thirsk Cancer Research shop today: bought a thick grey throw to use as a sofa blanket in the colder months, £4.50. It called my name because it goes so well with the carpet in the lounge and should be very snuggly.

That is exactly what I'm looking for, probably grey as well to match my sofa. I'm using a thick black scarf/pashmina (also a chazzer buy) at the moment as a sofa blanket, but I want something larger.:)

Rosa_Damascena

Wednesday2000 said:

Cherryfudge said:

Thirsk Cancer Research shop today: bought a thick grey throw to use as a sofa blanket in the colder months, £4.50. It called my name because it goes so well with the carpet in the lounge and should be very snuggly.

That is exactly what I'm looking for, probably grey as well to match my sofa. I'm using a thick black scarf/pashmina (also a chazzer buy) at the moment as a sofa blanket, but I want something larger.:)

I have bought many over the years from Aldi and Lidl and get a lot of use out of them. I've also gifted lots to my family and they too now use them daily over winter / spring / autumn. Wilko ones are ok but not as good.

Yesterday was a good day in a local chaz: I bought a faux leather cover for my tablet, some Scholl foot gel pads, 3 hardback books and a lovely linen J Taylor summer dress for £5. I then bought a further 3 books from the library for 25p each. I'm ok for shelf space atm having had a library installed last year but at the rate I'm going I'll need to find more space but 2024.

@Wednesday2000 - Leigh is the Sth Essex equivalent of Chelsea! I will take well-made clothes over designer any day, so will stick with the Westcliff outlet store.

Wednesday2000

Rosa_Damascena said:

Wednesday2000 said:

Cherryfudge said:

Thirsk Cancer Research shop today: bought a thick grey throw to use as a sofa blanket in the colder months, £4.50. It called my name because it goes so well with the carpet in the lounge and should be very snuggly.

That is exactly what I'm looking for, probably grey as well to match my sofa. I'm using a thick black scarf/pashmina (also a chazzer buy) at the moment as a sofa blanket, but I want something larger.:)

I have bought many over the years from Aldi and Lidl and get a lot of use out of them. I've also gifted lots to my family and they too now use them daily over winter / spring / autumn. Wilko ones are ok but not as good.

Yesterday was a good day in a local chaz: I bought a faux leather cover for my tablet, some Scholl foot gel pads, 3 hardback books and a lovely linen J Taylor summer dress for £5. I then bought a further 3 books from the library for 25p each. I'm ok for shelf space atm having had a library installed last year but at the rate I'm going I'll need to find more space but 2024.

@Wednesday2000 - Leigh is the Sth Essex equivalent of Chelsea! I will take well-made clothes over designer any day, so will stick with the Westcliff outlet store.

I might look in Aldi, thanks, as I'm going there next week to stock up on food.

I read that Leigh is the Essex version of Shoreditch the other day. Haha.

goldfinches

Wednesday2000 said:

Cherryfudge said:

Thirsk Cancer Research shop today: bought a thick grey throw to use as a sofa blanket in the colder months, £4.50. It called my name because it goes so well with the carpet in the lounge and should be very snuggly.

That is exactly what I'm looking for, probably grey as well to match my sofa. I'm using a thick black scarf/pashmina (also a chazzer buy) at the moment as a sofa blanket, but I want something larger.:)

I've bought most of mine from Primark over the years but my nicest and snuggest one was a remnant on the bargains table at a local fabric shop.