Let Thrift shopping thrive in 25!

MrsCatz

@amj714  I am rather enjoying the Jacqueline Whisper book and will look out for more as I go. Will pass it on to my colleagues when I am  finished with it.

I have had some duffers from there recently where the blurb doesn’t resemble the storyline.

MrsCatz

@Brie our local hospice shop had 5 Hermes scarves donated recently, they put all of them on their online portals

London_1

Having moved last July and my DD and I both sold our houses and bought one between us we have a three bedroomed house and a four bedroomed town house to fit into a three bedroomed house All her five grown up children had grown and flown so there is only myself my DD and my son-in-law plus two dogs .Almost a year later and we are still decluttering bits and pieces .What she doesn't sell on Vinted or Ebay if in good enough condition we donate to a charity shop.yesterday we did a tip run in my car with a full car of odds and ends that couldn't be reused or recycled.
I must admit I can't resist a CS for the odd book or three but I do donate them to the local tesco charity shelf once I have read them I have cut down quite a bit on books and I am slowly knitting my way through my wool stash I knit every day:) mainly charity blankets now and use up as much as I can or pass it on at knitting club

I actually counted how many pairs of slippers I had at the bottom of my wardrobe yesterday, and its 12, ! ! ! so they will be sorted out next week as some have never ever been worn so will go to the CS

I shall have to sort through my wardrobe as well even though I did get rid of quite a bit last years I definitely have more clothes than I shall ever wear in my remaining lifetime (I am an octogenarian )  

Living where I do now it is slightly warmer than the mainland in the winter (2-3 degrees in fact, IoW ) so a lot of winter stuff just needs to go 

Next week DD said she will help me sort stuff out and It will go to the local CS in Ryde.

Some stuff we have a double amount and DD sold her spare microwave for £10 last week on the local FB site. Any cash raised goes into the spare cash decorating pot as although the house is Ok we want to add our own decorative bits to it.
So far the spare bedroom has now been cleared decorated and looks like a bedroom now instead of a junk room  
 the last time I went to a boot sale at easter with one of my grandsons I bought a couple of jigsaws and once they were done I passed them on to someone else to do . I have bought a few children books as well but they too got passed on to two of my great-granddaughters who have just discovered the joy of reading. 

JackieO xx

MrsCatz

I remember reading about your move JackieO - are you enjoying living there? There was a travel warning on out local news last night saying the ferries are going to be heaving all week.

C_J

Hi Jackie! I was only thinking about you the other day as I hadn't seen you around. Hope all is well with you and your family and you are still loving the IOW life!

C_J

My younger daughter asked me a while ago to look out for a sewing machine for her when on my charity shop travels, and earlier today I came up trumps with this Toyota machine for just £10. It is quite a basic machine but has 21 different stitches on the dial and can do buttonholes so it will be great for her to refresh her skills (she hasn't done any machine sewing since her schooldays because, apparently, it is so much easier to ask me to do it for her ). It was sold as "not tested" but I wound a bobbin on it, threaded it up and tried every sewing stitch and it works perfectly.

MrsCatz

Well, knock me down with a feather! The Guardian’s fashionista in their shoes for summer article is only advocating….wait for it….white trainers (Superga to be specific but other brands available) with a floral dress🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

C_J

MrsCatz said:

Well, knock me down with a feather! The Guardian’s fashionista in their shoes for summer article is only advocating….wait for it….white trainers (Superga to be specific but other brands available) with a floral dress🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

But does the dress have POCKETS??! Grauniad’s fashionista has much to learn from us 


Well I’ve only gone and done it again - I needed another picture frame to replace the one I bought and can’t use because it has the Llandovery Castle watercolour in it, which I am keeping cos it’s lovely. So this morning I had a little chazzer mooch and bought a frame in the right style and size to replace the original one which I knocked off the wall and broke whilst dusting (are you keeping up with this ramble? 🤣). It cost me two whole pounds, and there is no way I will want to keep THIS one as it is a very sombre looking composition. I get home and examine it in more detail (hmm, this has been professionally framed) and see that it is an original signed charcoal of some cathedral along the Rhein by a fairly well known German artist and similar works of his have been selling in art auctions for around £150. 

@goldfinches : Orinoco still have a couple of DVD players, and I also spotted a dinky little DVD player (good make, can’t recall, might have been Panasonic) in Emmaus just outside Cowley Centre for just £10 but it didn’t have a remote.

Other purchases today were: a lovely hardback book of Aesop’s Fables with the most beautiful illustrations (£1.50) for youngest granddaughter, a Barbie, Ken, and small bag of Barbie accessories, shoes, hats etc etc (£5) also for youngest granddaughter who at three years old is just starting to get into this; a cane and wicker conservatory chair for £15, this was for one of my daughters who has been after a particular style for ages so she is thrilled. And finally an oblong wall mirror with a wide wooden frame (£3) which I am going to upcycle by glueing on some of the circa five million beads from broken necklaces which I have been collecting for yonks.

Wednesday2000

It wasn't a charity shop, but it was a second hand store as i stopped at Les & Gary's on the way home from London today and I bought three art prints for £15.

Brie

MrsCatz said:

@Brie our local hospice shop had 5 Hermes scarves donated recently, they put all of them on their online portals

Well that's no good!!!  WHAT hospice shop!!???!?!?!?!?