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More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

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  • Laredouter
    Laredouter Posts: 72 Forumite
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    I was coming home for the weekend and was just passing by the Sue Ryder store in town. Seemed rude not to pop in for a browse :p. Came away with an oatmeal striped Weird Fish zip-up fleece for £5.95 and a pretty embroidered Monsoon chambray blouse for £3.95. So pleased with how my new wardrobe is coming along!! I am going to ban myself from charity shops for a while now though :rotfl:
  • Laredouter
    Laredouter Posts: 72 Forumite
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    Also I believe it is the full-size Baywater; it definitely does weigh a ton :o
  • kboss2010
    kboss2010 Posts: 1,466 Forumite
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    OH needed trousers for work so I got a pair of Blue Harbour beige chinos & a pair of John Lewis blue suit trousers for £3.50/4 each & a pair of Markies suit trousers for £1 from the C/S today.
    “I want to be a glow worm, A glow worm's never glum'Coz how can you be grumpy, when the sun shines out your bum?" ~ Dr A. TappingI'm finding my way back to sanity again... but I don't really know what I'm gonna do when I get there~ LifehouseWhat’s fur ye will make go by ye… but also what’s not fur ye, ye can jist scroll on by!
  • Owain_Moneysaver
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    4 volumes of Building Encylopedia
    £65 at Biblio
    £4 at BHF (£1 a volume).

    Bedtime reading for the weekend.
    A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.
  • Owain_Moneysaver
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    Mir! wrote: »
    I always find that the local hospice charity shops ... have the best bargains and the keenest prices,

    Oh no, ours fancy themselves as 'booteeks' and price accordingly.

    Any charity shop that uses brown tie-on luggage labels is getting above itself.
    A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.
  • kboss2010
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    Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

    Any charity shop that uses brown tie-on luggage labels is getting above itself.

    :rotfl: - yep, it's funny! Although the ones that bother me most are the ones where there isn't a designer label in sight & yet they try to sell me a Primark-brand top for 3x what it cost new!
    “I want to be a glow worm, A glow worm's never glum'Coz how can you be grumpy, when the sun shines out your bum?" ~ Dr A. TappingI'm finding my way back to sanity again... but I don't really know what I'm gonna do when I get there~ LifehouseWhat’s fur ye will make go by ye… but also what’s not fur ye, ye can jist scroll on by!
  • dolly84
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    Today's bargains are a pair of faded blue Next tapered boyfriend jeans for £2.99, a BNWT White Stuff caterpillar scarf for £2.50, tag says £27.50:eek:, it has angora in which is expensive (and sheds like crazy it would appear) I suppose. A solid wood table to be used as DD's dressing table, it will be getting an upcycling treatment soon but at £5 I was very happy with it.
    Debt Free and now a saver, conscious consumer, low waste lifestyler


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  • mcculloch29
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    kboss2010 wrote: »
    :rotfl: - yep, it's funny! Although the ones that bother me most are the ones where there isn't a designer label in sight & yet they try to sell me a Primark-brand top for 3x what it cost new!

    My DSis and myself share a theory on this one, we reckon these shops are staffed by well-heeled ladies who lunch who don't recognise that 'Atmosphere' (to take one example) is actually a Primarni own-brand name, or that 'Avenue' is how A!di brand a lot of their stuff.

    Consequently they rate everything on the M and S/East/Next sliding scale of costs.
    Erma Bombeck, American writer: "If I had my life to live over again... I would have burned the pink candle, sculptured like a rose, that melted in storage." Don't keep things 'for best' - that day never comes. Use them and enjoy them now.
  • mcculloch29
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    Some years ago my niece, who has a six-figure salary, (and has worked damn hard for it), raved over a gorgeous thick fleece pair of pyjamas my sis had bought her. Sis kept her mouth shut, as she knew my niece wouldn't believe the source was Primark.
    Prejudices die hard...
    Erma Bombeck, American writer: "If I had my life to live over again... I would have burned the pink candle, sculptured like a rose, that melted in storage." Don't keep things 'for best' - that day never comes. Use them and enjoy them now.
  • Sayschezza
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    1 M&S merino wool jumper
    1 M&S cotton cashmere jumper
    1 M&S cotton jumper
    All as new £6 for the 3.

    2 Pretty lightweight scarves £2

    Pair converse style trainers but Papaya as new £2
    Pack coasters 50p

    3 paperbacks £1
    All that clutter used to be money
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