Pick'n'Mix - the joy of the chaz in '26!

Miró · 15 March at 10:26PM

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Oooooh nice to know someone else who appreciates ME+EM…the top was originally selling at £85😲. About a year ago I picked up one of their dresses, b/n from a chazza for £12.99….wore it a couple of times, decided it wasn’t quite my style and sold it on Vinted for £125😳

goldfinches · 16 March at 12:04AM

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Now that's what I call "money saving"! Clever you and I shall now be looking out for that brand around here to see if I can manage a similar trick.

Miró · 16 March at 5:28AM

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The funny thing was…. I had never ever seen anyone wearing this dress and the day after the buyer received it a weather presenter on the telly was wearing one exactly like it. I couldn't resist messaging my buyer, with a pic taken from the telly, to ask if it was her. It wasn't but the coincidence amused us both 😋

Rosa_Damascena · 16 March at 10:11PM

@goldfinches - Women of the West looks really interesting, its the kind of book you can flick through and learn a lot. Never heard of Tom Lehrer though.

I had a bit of a jackpot at a local chaz on Saturday afternoon - bought a load of small clothes (XS / size 8), slung them in the WM thinking it was nice and breezy so they might half-dry in the remaining 2 hours of light - but it unexpectedly hailed on an off!! Still, I got them dry and my fast-growing niece looks fabulous in her new outfits.

SandyShores · 16 March at 10:45PM

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I think the other brand she wore in The Split is called The Fold. I signed up to their newsletters back in 2023 (along with ME+EM) but never managed to spend a few hundred on a dress for myself. Your CS find was amazing - and you had a couple of wears too!

goldfinches · 17 March at 12:10AM

I had a positive odyssey in Summertown this afternoon to make up for the workman who texted at 9:23 this morning promising to arrive between 12 and 1pm and then completely vanished into thin air and isn't answering either texts, emails or phone calls! 😒

Anyway, this is what I bought.

First from the Helen and Douglas House shop which has had a very glamorous refit and whose prices seem to have gone down. The Green Roasting Tin was £2.50 and everything else in this photo was 50p even the Jane Austen which is read by Juliet Stephenson.

Then I went to the Scope shop and found the Pam Ayres, £1, which was nice because I'm going to a talk she's giving here next Sunday about her life in poetry. The Mrs Beeton came from the same shop and cost £2. The comedy cd was another of the 50p bargains from the Helen House shop. The two cookbooks here cost £3.99 each from the Oxfam shop. The fitbit, £12.99, is a very simple pedometer/monitor which I've been looking for since the strap of my smartwatch broke and proved to be unmendable and tucking it into a pocket or a sock means it doesn't record steps properly anymore.

Then I found a Persephone, Mrs Miniver, for £5.99 in the Oxfam shop which seems unread and then these two pretty scarves in the Scope shop for £3.50 each.

And last of all I found this BNWT Mountain Warehouse coat which is waterproof and lovely shades of blue (which haven't really come out in the photo) with orange zips and fits me perfectly. It's both warmer and a lighter weight than my current coat and a more flattering colour and cut so I gladly paid £30. I'm planning to wear the scarf on the left hand side above with it as it's almost a complete match for colour.

That's all and I now think that perhaps I shouldn't spend too much in the London charity shops tomorrow afternoon but will just have a quick look.

Miró · 17 March at 9:16AM

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I'm going to have to see if that series is still available as I don't think I watched it at the time! I have heard of The Fold but not seen any of their pieces.

Miró · 17 March at 9:33AM

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Why are people so unreliable these days, especially workpeople? When anyone starts a sentence with "I will………"I automatically think to myself….'I bet you won't"!

Wow, quite a haul from Summertown, you must have an enormous library of cook books now!! I gave up on Fitbts as the straps seemed to break or the buttons fell off. Bought a Huawei Band smartwatch about 5 years ago, dead cheap, and it's still going strong! Hope you enjoy the Pam Ayres talk, (how could you not?), she always seems to be a genuinely nice person.

"That's all and I now think that perhaps I shouldn't spend too much in the London charity shops tomorrow afternoon but will just have a quick look." Hmmmm….waits for next post 😉😄