Charity shops

terrierlady

Hereford's is expensive because many elderly people live there, malvern is pricey too and in Ross-on-Wye try the local animal rescue shop opp the car park prices paid were a bag of books for a pound , ladies tops 50p trouser's 1.00 many needed ironing but the price was very good.

lyniced

barginunter wrote:

You can't beat that Charity Shop aroma mmmm... They smell the same whichever area you shop in.

I know what the smell is - unwashed, dirty clothes and how can I say it..........human 'smells'. My mother works in a charity shop and she has told me some of the things that you find. She said that some clothes come in all neatly folded, clean and ready to go on the racks. Others are screwed up, unwashed and decidedly dirty. She found a pair of trousers once that smelt very strongly of urine and other something else!!!!!!!! She has taken to wearing rubber gloves when sorting!! By the way just to put your mind at rest - all clothes are steamed before going onto racks - so that should get rid of any nasties!!

cookiemonster25

I agree with the fact that charity shop prices are on the up but i have found that the british red cross are cheapest, they dont seem to rip you off as others do, as a consiquence its them i give my charity stuff too, i dont believe that people who have to use these shops out of necessity rather than choice should have to pay big bucks for second hand clothes.......i do however wash and ironthem all before they go

nightsong

Can't compare with carboot prices though, my son (13) wanted checked flannel shirts (it's a grunge-revival thing apparently ), of course there are none in the charity shops anyway because it's summer, but their men's shirts are at least £3 round here. The local carboot this morning yeilded two very nice flannel shirts, one Gap and one Next, for a total of £1.60 :j

THIRZAH

I worked in a charity shop for about ten years. You could guarantee if some one came in with stuff and said something like "somebody will be glad of this" or "it's all good stuff" that the stuff would be rubbish.

We didn't have much say about how much we should charge- it was all fixed by head office.

richto

dag wrote:

TK Maxx is too expensive.

Lol. You must live a long way from civilisation if you think that. TK Maxx is stuffed full of mostly tasteless stuff that didnt sell last year, for about half the normal retail price. Not quite as !!!!!! as Primark though but not far off it.

jellyhead

we don't have a primark but ethel austin and asda usually sell clothes cheaper than the charity shops. the chart books are £3.73 in the supermarkets, i recently started buying them because the charity shops charge £2.99 anyhow.

i still look at kids clothes in the charity shops though, spud really likes a next t-shirt i got him, long sleeved, skulls and stuff. i paid £3 for it in the charity shop, asda probably do them new for that price but he particularly likes this one.

GWaites

I went to a charity shop last week as I needed something for a fancy dress do. It's the first time I have seen a charity shop offer BOGOFs!

zodiac

The charity shop experience sometimes depends on the people in there. Ie. 'older' people who eye you up as you come in the door (like im going to steal from a charity shop)
Saying that, the bloke in the Barnados down the road is really nice and helpful. He'll even keep an eye out for things and put them at the back for me (such as buttons)

jellyhead

you'd be surprised, people do steal from charity shops. i worked in oxfam on saturdays while i was at college and the staff (all older women) there were very suspicious and always eyed up the younger customers. it put a lot of people off going in there actually, they didn't like being treated like potential criminals just because they were young or because of the way they were dressed. i was there for about a year, only one person was caught shoplifting though so i think all the eagle eye stuff was probably counter-productive and drove more people away than it saved on potential shoplifting. what happened more often was people trying to swap price tickets over, or asking for a discount because of a tear or stain they made themselves.