Let Thrift shopping thrive in 25!

weenancyinAmerica

@C_J - Keep looking for frames. Looks like you have knack for finding original works of art. You may become a successful art seller online!

goldfinches

Brie said:

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!!???!?!?!?!?

You did make me laugh @Brie! 

@C_J - thankyou so much for keeping me updated on the DVD player situation. The friend I was trying to help has found the hot weather very difficult and wasn't pleased by my efforts to help last week so I backed off a bit. However, yesterday afternoon we managed a rapprochement, so I will have another go at suggesting she visit the two shops.

Meanwhile I have had a very demanding couple of days and will never again agree to attend a committee meeting in a cafe where everyone at every other table is talking at full volume! 

I managed to finish off my today's to-do list by 2pm this afternoon and promptly decided I'd earned a trip to my favourite bhf shop so here are the two books (£2 each) and the two baking tins I fell for.

The OxCrime one is a collection of crime stories written in response to an Oxfam request for contributions to a fund raising anthology and when I saw the other one I thought the Census details would be fascinating.
The lighter coloured tin at the bottom of the frame is a Wilton one so I bought it even though it's scratched because the only other Wilton tin I have is excellent quality and bakes beautifully. The darker coloured tin at the top is 24cm diameter which is a size I don't currently have so I decided it was worth £3.

MrsCatz

@Brie I don’t think I can put a link here.

In awe of all the amazing things people have been finding.

Miró

Usual midweek trip to Otley and the 99p St Gemma’s Hospice shop tempted me with a white flouncy blouse and a Brook Taverner b/n shirt for the GC. (Now giggling at the thought of the GC in the blouse).  Shirt was rejected cos of the double cuffs…’can’t be faffing about with cufflinks’ 😚. Anyhoo, plonked it on Vinted and sold it at a nice profit 😋

goldfinches

@Miró - I love the appearance of double cuffs once they're done up but do agree with the GC that they are a bit of a faff if you don't have someone to do the links for you. I love the frilly shirt and am enjoying picturing various men wearing it. Interestingly if the sleeves were longer it might go well with a dinner jacket or as part of a pirate costume.

elsien

Come back Spandau  ballet,  all is forgiven? 

Watty1

I loved that frilly blouse. Also have 2 lovely sets of girly cufflinks but my only cufflink shirt now too frayed to be worn.

Dropped off a bag of donations and bought a lovely large glass hurricane candle holder for £3.  Fear I may have added to the clutter, but, I have some sand and a couple of large pillar candles so it will be used, enjoyed and might be re-donated later.

DigForVictory

I love cufflinks, but cheat & use my saddlers clamp to fasten the blighters up. 
Yeah, I have some weird stuff around the house. 

DigForVictory

Although my son's expression when I bought an antler horn dog chew to saw & sand into various hair toys remains a reminder that weird can be subjective. I think what he mostly objected to was me using power tools unsupervised & the smell of scorched antler. (Well, I couldn't see any way to cut through water safely.) I have an ebony & bristle hairbrush, carved bone hairpins and a ruthlessly eco friendly approach to hair toys... Horn was the medieval plastic for some things (wood, leather & dratted fiddly metalwork for others) - I don't really understand why he was surprised, raised by historians after all.. 

MrsCatz

elsien said:

Come back Spandau  ballet,  all is forgiven? 

I have a blouse that makes me feel like a New Romantic