Back for 2025: What's the best £1(ish) you've ever spent?

Dizzy_Ditzy

I bought a cashmere cardigan when my local Tesco were doing £1 clothes sales 😀

Suffolk_lass

I bought a Longchamp black leather bag for £5 in a charity shop. Not a style I had ever seen but with the racehorse embossed on the leather and the zip pull. I wasn't convinced it was authentic, but I was using it while in Brussels and in their shop there, so I casually asked if it was a fake. "Oh no, Madam, these retailed at over €750!"

Gem-gem

Does this qualify as I actually got it all for free? Today, I went to an auction house to sell a variety of items. Sadly, I was told that they already had plenty of the given items and they wouldn't sell. Upon leaving, I spotted a pile of items in the rubbish area. They said that I could take anything that was there. 

These are some of the items that I found: 
Three Wedgwood items - trinket dishes and bud vase - two in mint condition!!
Royal Albert trinket dish - fine bone china in mint condition
A Susie Cooper meat serving dish, I was told that I should get at least £10 at a boot fair but I have decided to keep it. 
A 1938 ceramic van that someone is selling on eBay for £40
A named vase selling on eBay for £10
A small decanter. 

There was also more than a dozen of other items that you may get 50p /£1 from at a boot fair. 

retiredinfrance

Love the meat dish and the Post Office van!

sheilavw

at a fete the other week my Brother spent £1 on tombola tickets. He won a slim DYNY ladies wallet with TK MAXCX £29.99 ticket on. Then I used tombola at local Tesco and won a lovely new with tags cuddly elephant, nice for a new baby, and a Sanctuary mini set

Sue14

When I had my 1st home, I went to a car boot sale, just as I was leaving I saw a box on one of the stalls and when I looked in it there were about 4 chopping knives, a carving knife and fork, a sharpening steel, a pallet knife, a freezer knife, and a set of corn on the cob forks, all in perfect condition. I asked for a price and was told 20p, which I thought was a great price as I didn’t have any of those things, and it became an even better bargain when the stall holder clarified that the 20p was for the whole box! I later sold the corn forks for 20p, but the rest of the items I still use 40 years later.

Also when I got my 1st microwave I saw a large amount of microwave cookware at a car boot sale, including a browning plate (which at the time were at least £25-£30), I asked for a price and was told it was £1 for the whole lot.

Fruball

This one was easy...

Taking my little grandson on the land train in town.  He is 2.5yrs old and absolutely loves it!  £1 (each) and worth a hundred times that to see his little face light up and the pleasure he got from that little trip! 

Can't wait to do it again! 

thriftwizard

Done it again, at the recycling warehouse - 3 large lined curtains, in just the right shades of dark red & gold for the newly-redecorated spare room, 50p each, pretty much pristine, one with the price label (not in English) still attached. One has been cut in half for the window - plenty wide enough! - one is covering a trunk under the window and the third makes a great "throw" for the big futon, which has a stain on the cover. They go beautifully with the enormous braided wool rug in shades of autumnal reds, browns & oranges that cost me £6.20 (including auctioneer's fees) along with another smaller rug that's gracing DD1's new home. 

The paint (Lick white 02) cost us £5 a tin at the recycling warehouse too. The only problem is that the two tins were evidently from different batches so we'll have to go over the walls again in places! But at that price, it's still a win.

Fruball

thriftwizard said:

Done it again, at the recycling warehouse - 3 large lined curtains, in just the right shades of dark red & gold for the newly-redecorated spare room, 50p each, pretty much pristine, one with the price label (not in English) still attached. One has been cut in half for the window - plenty wide enough! - one is covering a trunk under the window and the third makes a great "throw" for the big futon, which has a stain on the cover. They go beautifully with the enormous braided wool rug in shades of autumnal reds, browns & oranges that cost me £6.20 (including auctioneer's fees) along with another smaller rug that's gracing DD1's new home. 

The paint (Lick white 02) cost us £5 a tin at the recycling warehouse too. The only problem is that the two tins were evidently from different batches so we'll have to go over the walls again in places! But at that price, it's still a win.

Great finds there!
I spotted a fab lampshade today in a chazza that was exactly what my friend was looking for!  It's a beautiful wine red colour.  I should have grabbed it for myself but she is pleased with it!

Ladyhavershamlost - if you're lurking!

freyasmum

Not quite £1, but I got a dress for £2.48 in our local M&S about 10 years ago. It's still going strong and I constantly get compliments on it. And, obviously, I waste no time in saying what a bargain it was 🤣