Let Thrift shopping thrive in 25!

weenancyinAmerica

My birthday is coming up a week from Friday. I've asked for a trip to our nearby thrift shop. I can't seem to fit them in on regular days. I have been trying to get to one for months now. But we are going to the Dollar Store, the thrift shop, and out for lunch (with my two sisters).

MrsCatz

Have a lovely birthday.

I have been charity shop avoiding at the moment. Mainly because of time, however I have enjoyed reading your posts and been handing down clothing to other family members. 

Strangest charity shop buy in the last decade was a London map with a guide to the festival of London found in a dogs charity in Litchfield. No idea how it got up there

MrsCatz

National Archives has a search function for possible SOE personnel, they are the best place to start as the files would have been sent there. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C15989

Miró

This week’s bargains……

From the 99p St Gemma’s Hospice Shop - a flower patterned, jersey, midi dress from Cotswold Collections and an M&S. brown jumper with a nice small cowl neck.  From the Sue Ryder Shop. - a b/n white shirt by Brook Taverner for £3 and a b/n black Hobbs jumper in Merino wool with metallic thread trim round the neck and the fluted sleeves for £6.95.

General_Grant

MrsCatz said:

Have a lovely birthday.

I have been charity shop avoiding at the moment. Mainly because of time, however I have enjoyed reading your posts and been handing down clothing to other family members. 

Strangest charity shop buy in the last decade was a London map with a guide to the festival of London found in a dogs charity in Litchfield. No idea how it got up there

Festival of Britain - obviously people travelled to London from all over.  What is remarkable is that the ephemeral items survived over 50 years.

My father travelled to the Festival from the West Midlands.  Before going, he asked me what I would like him to bring back.  I responded "a train set, please".  His response to that was to ask whether I would not prefer to have a dolly.  I insisted that I wanted a train set - and my father did indeed bring back a train set for his daughter.  I played with it for a long time - and also played with my dolls, of course.

C_J

sammy_kaye18 said:

C_J said:

@sammy_kaye18 - I found this website which may be a good starting point, perhaps you could message the site's creator?

We've gone a bit off topic concerning chazzers, haven't we? I wonder if there would be any appetite for a family history thread?

Yes I have that website and that is the camp but I couldnt see any contact details. 
I will try looking on Ancestry.com like @w@weenancyinAmerica siggested. 

And Yes @weenancyinAmerica they are italian. 

@sammy_kaye18 If you look at this page there is an Italian lady called Vitellino who says she is the owner of the website to which I sent you the earlier link. You have to join the WW2 website to be able to send her a message, but I could see that she was active on the site earlier today so it’s definitely a current link. Good luck!

Sorry again for digressing! I was out for lunch with a friend today and we had a little wander around the chazzers afterwards. I managed to buy a lovely sewing basket (which looks new and unused) for £3 for my younger daughter (the one I bought the chazzer sewing machine for recently). I am torn between giving it to her tomorrow, or waiting three months and making it part of her birthday present stash filled with some nice threads, scissors etc.

C_J

MrsCatz said:

National Archives has a search function for possible SOE personnel, they are the best place to start as the files would have been sent there. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C15989

Thank you @MrsCatz. I’ve already tried searching there, but couldn’t find anything. I suspect she may have changed her name (or lied about it - she certainly lied about her year of birth as it is different on each of her three marriage certificates!!). I really want to spend a day or two at the National Archives to see if I can move the research forward, but it’s not easy for me to get there.

DigForVictory

It is a bit frustrating trying to decipher just what a lady's age is from her varied accounts, bnut the Waugh family have my current ire for bewing born with one name & regsitered dead with the same, rearranged. I know Catholic baptism allow(s/ed) you an extra of your choosing, but really...
I salute any father who gives his daughter a train set - enlightened thinking!

Rosa_Damascena

Just catching up on this thread - I seem to have opened up a can of worms here!

@sammy_kaye18 , @C_J , @beanielou : I have flicked through the Sarah Helm and it is 727 pages of detailed accounts, so not a quick read! But nor is it a complicated read, although the subject matter is clearly not going to make it a comfortable subject matter.

My world war section is at the top of my history bookshelf (other international wars on lower shelves, finally ending with British history at the bottom) and there are lots of accounts available. There is stack of contemporaneous evidence and I found the arguments against this made by David Irving (captured in the film "Denial") to be utterly outrageous. 

I had a lovely day out in town with my mum this week My route into London is punctuated by a big diversion this summer - but every cloud has a silver lining and we were able to sample the multiple chazxer delights of a part of Harold Hill (just south of Noak Hill) that I wasn't previously aware of. Our joint spend came to less than £15 and included a BNWT exercise band, a scarf, jewelled bangle, stitcher, ladies' wallet for her and the following books for me:

sammy_kaye18

@Rosa_Damascena I feel like you might have inadvertantly given me so many more books to keep an eye out for on my CS journey and to add to my TBR list. 

I am away this weekend with my husband so we are going to Machynlleth which Im told has a load of beautiful little charity shops and weirdy wonderful shops so I am looking forward to sharing some hauls when I get home with you all