Let Thrift shopping thrive in 25!

Miró

Ooooh it’s feast or famine with this chazza/car boot shopping innit?  Today was a feast day. Bedale car boot: George cream dressing gown £1, down gilet thingy £1. Large plant pot £3.  Thirsk BHS shop, purple Karrimor jacket, as new, £13, and Oxfam, Ted Baker black dress, (no hanger appeal but fab on), £15, RRP £195! Soz the pics are so dark, gloomy day!

skye_blue

Hi
Normally just an avid reader but also a charity shop volunteer for a local hospice.  It seems that the larger charity shops are told their pricing policy to follow whereas as a local shop the decisions are made by the shop managers who know their customers better.   We have had plenty of people recently telling us of the higher prices they are seeing.  A quicker turnover of donations, more important I think you will agree.

Also a problem becoming more common by lots of charities at the moment is the quality of some of the donations.  Sometimes it feels like a throw everything in a bag to be donated attitude rather than to sort and recycle the rags.  We do recycle rags but when things are mixed it can contaminate the good items.

Thanks everyone who supports their local shops and keep finding your bargains, love seeing them all.

cbsexec

Great buys. 

florianatwobob

Our local hospice has created its own outlet above the uber cool shop that’s aiming to capture the teenager CS’ers. They opened the outlet a few months ago and have sold 5000 items of clothing and raised £13,000 for the charity. Everything in the outlet is stuff they’ve not been able to sell in their other shops. They’re very pleased and it’s meant they’ve saved it from recycling. 

weenancyinAmerica

That is my theory with our book sales - the books are all donated and we get so many donations that we need to price them low enough to keep moving them along.