Shop Charity in '23!

Watty1

I've been reading along for a while and mostly only shop in one charity shop (the one in the village) because I don't go anywhere else much, but I have had some great finds this year so I'm going to jump in and share my treasures:

A very large gold framed mirror £7
A pair of vintage pewter candle sticks £2.50 (rang the company that made them, they are from the 70s and were very expensive at the time)
4 x Edinburgh crystal champagne glasses unused and in their box £5
A box of candles for £5, it included around 80 candles for the candle sticks so I've used them every evening and loved them.
3 square bottles for 50 p each which look stunning in the bathroom with coloured bubble bath in and stoppers that I made from cork
Vintage choker necklace £2.50 that I absolutely love but it only really works if I wear it on top of a roll neck as it is too big really but I can't see me parting with it as I love it.

I've bought other stuff in there, it is a bit of joke with the ladies that I take in a bag to declutter and leave with a bag of treasures but the shop has the most wonderful sell it cheaply and quickly policy so their turn over is quick and I've often found things I love like the photo frame on the table 40p and so on.

Facebook Marketplace has been fun.  My ex finally settled and I replaced virtually everything he took from Facebook Marketplace including a fabulous antique wooden table and 4 chairs £40, a daybed for the spare room that was free and an used king sized bedframe for £70 that I love and is so much nicer than the one he took.

Regrets:  to make you laugh:  a wedding dress £30.  I have no idea what I was thinking LOL  

Brie

Was at the work Christmas do last evening and was pleased that when they had announced a few weeks back about Secret Santa that they specified that things didn't have to be new, that they could be second hand, used, regifted. 

As it was I couldn't think of anything in the house that I wanted to give so went out and bought some Tewkesbury mustard (love it, realllllly hot!) and a IoW Garlic farm grinder filled with sea salt, pepper corns and dried garlic.  Because I bought an extra something for the OH for Christmas I also got a free beeswax wrap which I included in the (recycled) gift bag.  Chap that ended up with the gift loved getting the mustard and was fascinated by the beeswax wrap as he'd never seen one before.  

Cherryfudge

I'm loving the treasures and some of the regrets.  

@Floss, what an interesting article! The authors are each doing their own thing, which got me thinking. There's no one perfect way.

The one I related to was of course the one who learnt to mend, which is kind of my thing, and I realised I know one of the people it links to, slightly. She does felt art, it's beautiful. I have, however, entirely fallen for the 1950s style hollyhock embroidery used to mend the elbow of a jumper. I think it might be my next aspiration.

Floss

@Cherryfudge I loved that too! I have recently darned moth holes in 2 chazzer bargain cashmere jumpers and patched & stitched a denim jacket but haven't been brave enough to do proper visible decorative mending.

Cherryfudge

Floss said:

@Cherryfudge I loved that too! I have recently darned moth holes in 2 chazzer bargain cashmere jumpers and patched & stitched a denim jacket but haven't been brave enough to do proper visible decorative mending.

I think invisible mending is braver - it's harder to make it invisible than visible and, as one of the people in the article says, once you make it visible, there are no rules.

Hodgepodge

Just bought a super king size bed spread for our king size bed, as I want it to hang down the sides to keep the warmth in. It's a gorgeous soft gold colour and was £10.

Rosa_Damascena

Hodgepodge said:

Just bought a super king size bed spread for our king size bed, as I want it to hang down the sides to keep the warmth in. It's a gorgeous soft gold colour and was £10.

Sound like my kind of thing..I demand a picture!

Cherryfudge

I wandered into Cancer Research today and spotted a very nice hard-cover book that I'd not heard of, about how to repair and conserve possessions. Just my sort of thing - so I've informed DH he's giving it me for Christmas.  

Rosa_Damascena

Wore a recent chazzer find this evening to lots of compliments! The picture below doesn't actually do it justice, the shimmer all over matches the colour of the neck trim:

Miró

Cherryfudge said:

I wandered into Cancer Research today and spotted a very nice hard-cover book that I'd not heard of, about how to repair and conserve possessions. Just my sort of thing - so I've informed DH he's giving it me for Christmas.  

Ooooh sounds interesting…..can you give us more info please?