Holding On and Letting Go 🎈

beanielou

Our local charity shop is very expensive.
Sometimes cheaper to buy new!

rtandon27

We also have several charity shops in town, but mostly what we would purchase can be had for less (new) or free (used) online! They are very pricey shops, but are well kept, neat and tidy & with lovely staff when compared to the very few stores that are remaining on our high street!

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Swayingseaweed said:

That lemon curd and blackcurrant cake looks very nice might make that for Sunday to use up our blackcurrants. Yep charity shops have got very expensive.
Seaweedx

It's a favourite recipe of mine Seaweed as we've got three type of currant in our veg patch.  Also works with berries.

I was really shocked at the prices in the charity shop - I know they are there to raise money for a specific charity but I've always thought part of their mission was to benefit the community too.  Not so much it seems these days.

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beanielou said:

Our local charity shop is very expensive.
Sometimes cheaper to buy new!

rtandon27 said:

We also have several charity shops in town, but mostly what we would purchase can be had for less (new) or free (used) online! They are very pricey shops, but are well kept, neat and tidy & with lovely staff when compared to the very few stores that are remaining on our high street!

That's what I thought too.  They had some pyrex dishes I looked at but, yes, cheaper to buy new 😲  Perhaps their overheads have hugely increased as they have for the rest of us.

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beanielou

I am sure their overheads have increased but if they were more reasonably priced I am sure people would buy more!

badmemory

A lot of the local charity shops here are rent free because they don't like all those empty shop fronts on the main streets.  I have found though that the ones in ther much smaller local towns are actually much better stocked.  All part of the make places difficult to get to & people won't go there even to donate.

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beanielou said:

I am sure their overheads have increased but if they were more reasonably priced I am sure people would buy more!

I'm sure they would too Beanie.

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Suffolk_lass

My favourite local one is in a very popular tourist Village just nearby - it is expensive, but the clothes rails have designer labels as well as size labels poking up and the glasses all seem to be lead crystal. It's opposite our dentist so I generally pop in when a visit there occurs

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Suffolk_lass said:

My favourite local one is in a very popular tourist Village just nearby - it is expensive, but the clothes rails have designer labels as well as size labels poking up and the glasses all seem to be lead crystal. It's opposite our dentist so I generally pop in when a visit there occurs

Sounds like a treasure trove SL - ours are all man made fibres and plastic 😆  I do find the occasional piece of treasure though.

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I did it!

I sacked off most of the chores yesterday so I could have a play on my sewing machine.  And I made something!  Only the very simplest cushion cover pattern for beginners but it came out ok and I've learnt a lot already through all the mistakes I made 😂  It's just a cushion cover but I feel as though I've really achieved something and have started developing a useful skill.  Mr F keeps laughing at how chuffed I am about it 😆  It was evident that I needed some sewing supplies though (like scissors that actually cut) so I've used my personal spends to invest in a few things.

I did manage to add one further plant variety to the list yesterday - grapefruit.  We ate it for breakfast with granola and yoghurt.  Lunch was tuna salad to use up the leftover coleslaw and potato salad.  Supper was Paneer Makhani to use up the paneer I opened earlier this week thinking it was feta 🙄  I added some spinach and peas to veg it up a bit.

I'm planning a relaxing day today as my arm is a bit sore - maybe more sewing 😂 I've been bitten by the bug now.

Fortune x