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!