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A shiny new thread for the thrift shoppers amongst us - those who haunt car boots, FB marketplace, Vinted, Ebay, jumble sales & charity shops to score bargains galore!
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Awwww @Cherryfudge, many thanks for the heads up about Daphne at the end of the last thread! We still have a some ducks wobbling around the garden and I have left a space where she made her nest in case she decides upon an encore 🥰9
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Hi Floss, I'd like to join this thread please. I've been buying from charity shops for some years but have recently been shopping on V!nted too. Today I bought a cushion from V
I'd like to buy second hand as much as possible for my purse and the planet
Love Deni xLBM - October 2018; finally debt free on 16 March 2021
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Thank you @Floss . Keen charity shopper here and long time lurker“the princess jumped from the tower & she learned that she could fly all along. she never needed those wings.”
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Thank you @Floss for doing this thread again, I've lurked for most of 2024 but plan to be better this year!2025 Decluttering Campaign Mrs SD –The joy of decluttering 12/104
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I'm in again. I have had some fabulous finds in the local charity shop, love shopping there.Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became
In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!5 -
Please may I join in? Determined to keep more of our money rather than spend it unnecessarily. Love a good rummage in a charity shop and have been delighted by Vinted so nothing new for me this year, also keeping spend to a minimum.Saving 1 animal wont change the world - but it will change the world for that 1 animal
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I'll join again this year.
I bought my brother a vintage Babycham glass from a charity shop earlier this year and gave it to him for Christmas - he said it was his favourite Christmas present! (we always went to our Grandparents for Boxing Day when we were young and she served us lemonade coloured with red food colouring in Babycham glasses - we thought we were so grown up! So it was lovely memories for us.)Stash busting challenge 2025: 0/100 £0/£100 Fashion on the ration 2025: 0/6610
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