Shop Charity Store in '24!

StickyTheStickInsect

Thank you for a new thread @floss, I’ll probably be more of lurker as I have been in previous years but I love seeing all your fabulous finds!

Florenceem

I was very strict with myself last year after my major declutter. I intend to carry on resisting charity shop buys. I am taking lots of donations to charity shops at the moment as I seem to have taken over sorting donated items at my SA. I bag up clothes that will be collected - we get money for it. If I find really good/new items - I store them for our table top sales to raise money for SA work. Other stuff that is not suitable for me to store - I have limited space and is too good to be stuffed into bags - I take to a charity shop. I sell donated new shoes at our TT sales but not worn ones - I have in the last couple of weeks taken Dr Martens to the charity shop.

Cherryfudge

I wasn't sure on which thread to confess this first, but as this is the charity shop thread, I thought at least I will get a sympathetic audience!

We went into Thirsk, home of a square of chazzers, and did the rounds for something to do on a wet afternoon. I will have to take up jigsaws or paint the ceiling instead of getting out for some fresh air. Firstly I found a pink polo neck jumper, which I'd identified as a gap in my wardrobe, in the Blue Cross. There goes a fiver, but I'm hoping it will be a warm colour next to my skin as well as being cotton and Landsend.

Then into Cancer Research UK, where what should call my name but a Lakeland baking tray, the sort with a two-layered base and smooth sides so you can slide biscuits off easily. Okay, I had very similar in my Christmas stocking, but if I have two, that's going to save fuel because I can make more biscuits at the same time, right? So that was another fiver (Thirsk is not winning prices for being ultra cheap).

Onwards to BHF, where I found an oversized Christmassy jumper by Nutmeg. The colours really suited me. Yes, a fiver again. I'd been on the look out for a Christmas item, thinking people might clear out and I could put one aside for the future, but I had in mind a tee shirt or lighter jumper, not one of these that takes up half the drawer. Gorgeous, though.

There is a very slight redeeming feature as I resisted a brass candle snuffer, one of those gadgets for getting olives out of jars and a glass dome for a cake stand.

Brie

Cherryfudge said:

I wasn't sure on which thread to confess this first, but as this is the charity shop thread, I thought at least I will get a sympathetic audience!

There is a very slight redeeming feature as I resisted a brass candle snuffer, one of those gadgets for getting olives out of jars and a glass dome for a cake stand.

Yes - there are some days when things just lure you in to the shop and, like a siren, lure you further into a purchase or 6.  

Rosa_Damascena

Brie said:

Cherryfudge said:

I wasn't sure on which thread to confess this first, but as this is the charity shop thread, I thought at least I will get a sympathetic audience!

There is a very slight redeeming feature as I resisted a brass candle snuffer, one of those gadgets for getting olives out of jars and a glass dome for a cake stand.

Yes - there are some days when things just lure you in to the shop and, like a siren, lure you further into a purchase or 6.  

Which is exactly what happened to me this afternoon, I was seduced by the sight of a Phase Eight dress on a mannequin in a chazzer window....not for me unfortunately, on account of it being a size 8. It didn't stop me from snooping through the bric-a-brac and coming away withe a glittery fairy light ornament and £2 lighter!

Miró

My first foray of the New Year to the delights of the chazza shops in Otley today  Came home with a pure silk jacket in a dark minky colour by Viyella, appears to be unworn, £3.99, from the pawsh rail in the St Gemma's 99p shop.  Also picked up a pair of Avenue ballet flats in a dusky pink colour for 99p.  They were very grubby but I could see that they had hardly been worn.  A quick attack of Barkeeper's Friend and a swipe with anti brac wipes and they are as good as new!

@Cherryfudge I hope you have left some bargains in the Thirsk chazza shops....I shall be doing the rounds there on Saturday! 

(The waterfall frills on the jacket need a bit of a press!)

Floss

I did some reverse chazzing today - took 3 bags to Banardo's and came out with some BNWT salopettes for £5 - I'm now actively shopping for my cruise in 10 weeks.

Cherryfudge

Miró said:

@Cherryfudge I hope you have left some bargains in the Thirsk chazza shops....I shall be doing the rounds there on Saturday! 

Very nice finds @Miro! You really have an eye for these things!

I have left one or two items in Thirsk for others.  

I found myself wandering round charity shops today (totally surprising - I mean, here's me trying so hard not to overbuy! And most of the ones I visited weren't even on my route. How ever did that happen?) but earlier I'd been thinking that I wasn't keen on wearing a particular long sleeved tee shirt because it's become a bit scratchy, which helped me decide against several others that are nice colours but not the quality that will stay comfortable.

@Floss, nice bit of reverse shopping there! A cruise sounds exciting. Where are you going?

Floss

Cherryfudge said:

@Floss, nice bit of reverse shopping there! A cruise sounds exciting. Where are you going?

Rotterdam, Orkney, the Faroes and then Iceland, hopefully to see the Northern Lights.

Brie

Floss said:

Cherryfudge said:

@Floss, nice bit of reverse shopping there! A cruise sounds exciting. Where are you going?

Rotterdam, Orkney, the Faroes and then Iceland, hopefully to see the Northern Lights.

Oh salopettes !!!  I need some of those for Norway I think!!!  In about 9 weeks I think!!