Charity Shopping - New to You in '22! 24 December 2021 at 11:07AM in Old style MoneySaving 1.6K replies 217.9K views

Pollycat

It's not my cup of tea, Miro.
I think I'd be hard put to pay £10.00 for it.

Saw a lovely F&F animal print coat for £5.00. Pockets still stitched and so was the back pleat but a size too small for me. 

Donated a bag to the local hospice: couple of dresses, half a dozen tops, pair of sandals and a small pottery vase.

Floss

Not sure I'd pay that...if it were £25 I might consider it!

C_J

That bag isn’t my cup of tea either - I’d have to fight the urge to pop all the little bubbles on it like bubble wrap!

MoneysavingmadGem

Not my taste either. 

The clock was still there! £3 hanging on the wall now! 

Also picked up 2 vintage skirts, pure wool. 1 fits waist but going to alter to be more of a wiggle skirt (£5) than a line  2nd (7.99) is very large on me but I loved the soft fabric, thinking there may be enough fabric for a pair of cigarette pants ... if not another wiggle skirt. I have no skirts in my wardrobe atm so all good. 

There was a lovely peruna coat, style I want but I'm looking for navy or dark red, this was a peachy pink. Tempted but just not sure I'd wear it. 

Guineapigsqueaks

That designer bag gives me the heebie jeebies 😳.

Lucy5781

I've been in my local £2 outlet hospice c/s repeatedly... I'm in a real costume/historical cosplay mood right now, especially since I've lost enough weight for my lower abdomen to look almost flat again and my waist has reappeared (now fitting 16s rather than 18s and 20s) so I have more 'guts' to carry them off...

Aside from also needing to change out stuff due to things no longer fitting or looking entirely wrong now my shape has changed again! The lady there is very sweet and has commented on how much I also donate, let alone buy and often points out things she's just put out, that usually are almost what I'd buy but often not quite right, today's was a lovely full length green dress with black pattern but alas, it was a size 12.

What I did find today, where the full length leather/suede skirt really caught my eye, from a costumey point of view, was a Betty Barclay skirt and jacket set, £4.00, £2.00 each as per the shop pricing. Acetate lined, seemed likely 90s, so, 20-30 years old!!

Googling, I found the same bits, though jacket in a lighter sand colour (this is milk chocolate brown, almost dusty), listed seperately on Ebay:
Skirt £35
Jacket £70

Apparently it's a bit of a saught after new vintage brand that you can rarely get here in the UK anymore? TKMaxx if you're lucky....

wondercollie

That is one of the ugliest bags I've ever seen!

If you see any bags by El Potro.   Snap the up.   They are lovely quality and legend has it that back when Chanel and Dior made their bags in Spain, they made them.

FluffyBabyPenguin

Went to l the charity shop down the road, i wanted to look for cookbooks but none caught my eye.

What I did come out with was two carrier bags of yarn for £5, all very good quality - entire balls of drops alpaca silk, sublime lace merino, a bunch more random balls of either laceweight or 4ply in what seems to be wool or drops alpaca, and 6 large balls of nice sock yarn. Fiver, said the nice lady at the till! Im thrilled. 

Rosa_Damascena

My last 3 handbag purchases are from the local £2 chazzer and they are not only very smart but practical. The £100 one pictured would stay on the shelf even at £2.

Miró

FluffyBabyPenguin said:

Went to l the charity shop down the road, i wanted to look for cookbooks but none caught my eye.

What I did come out with was two carrier bags of yarn for £5, all very good quality - entire balls of drops alpaca silk, sublime lace merino, a bunch more random balls of either laceweight or 4ply in what seems to be wool or drops alpaca, and 6 large balls of nice sock yarn. Fiver, said the nice lady at the till! Im thrilled. 

Sounds like you got some really lovely wool!  And thoughts as to what you will make with it yet?  I bought three bags of mixed yarns from a chazza recently and so far have made an aran jumper, an aran bobble hat, a brown and cream bobble hat and a long fringed scarf in mohair.  Have loads left but have run out of ideas now!

Spotted another pricy 'bargain' yesterday, this time in the normally really cheap community chazza.  Twas a pair of b/n ankle boots by either Ted Baker or Kurt Geiger, (can't remember).  Black leather dotted with small coloured sparkly stones all over and priced at £75....think they said original price around the £200 mark   I do hope this isn't indicative of future trends in chazza prices??!!