More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

silvasava wrote: »

During a clear out I sent one of those glass jelly moulds to the CS along with a metal rabbit one and a copper coloured ring mould that had roses round it!

The people of Hampshire are lucky, I'd have snapped all 3 up in a heartbeat.

Got niece with me this weekend, I think I'll treat her to a "rose" jelly.

Pollycat wrote: »

I thought so too.
Just bemused why VFM didn't buy it.

I went in there for a different reason in the first place. I was looking for another bookcase and saw what size thought was a second hand furniture shop but it turned out to be a pawnbrokers. If I can find it for that price in a pawnbrokers, I can find it for the same in a chazzer....and I know where I'd prefer my cash to end up.

some bargains today fro my youngest DD. Topshop checked trousers £4.00, Pink Soda playsuit £4 and New Look top £1.50. She has loads of parties coming up so these will be ideal.

Mir! wrote: »

Awwwww...thought I'd found a real bargain today in the Sue Ryder shop! A camel coloured long scarf by Alpaca Camargo - Made in Peru, BNWT and label indicated 100% alpaca, priced at £6. Done a bit of research since and it appears it is only 30% alpaca and 70% summat synthetic Still feels wondrously soft and warm tho. I should have known better cos I went to Peru on holiday a couple of years ago and was warned then about the mislabelling of alpaca items. I was probably influenced by the freezing cold and snow that I trudged through on my way there. It's strange....all the scarves in the shop were priced at £6 despite some being wool or synthetic or fleece or wotever and some were new and some rather worn....odd!

It's the same in India.
'Pashmina' is widely used to describe shawls but the wool comes from a particular kind of goat for true pashminas.

Bought a black long-line sleeveless top with a chiffon yoke. Only Mango but just what I've been looking for to go with the black & grey patterned leggings I have.

And a M&S short grey thick cardigan/jacket with black trim round the neckline, side edges, sleeves and bottom of the jacket.
50% merino wool, 50% viscose.
Lovely buttons.
Will go great with above leggings.
As it's wool, it's in the freezer.

£1.00 each from Air Ambulance.
I didn't find the top myself, the manageress remembered I'd been looking for plain coloured long tops and whisked it off the rail as soon as I went into the shop.
How's that for service? :T

GQ, you shouldn't underestimate the respectable responsible ones!
My present, sadly acting, boss is a pillar of rectitude but when faced with a footrest screwed onto one position for shipping responded to a trying-not-to-sound-piteous email by emerging with His Phillips screwdriver minutes later! (I was ashamed, my workbag usually has All Manner of handy stuff but the combitool was in The Other Bag. As a scout leader I should surrender my woggle.)

Neither of us have a clue how to configure a foot rest so he slackened the pressure so the whole thing tilted cooperatively & when the official chair is configured we will be taking notes, and grinning about the stashed Phillips.

And (ye gods where Have 19 years gone?!) some time ago, my nappy bag carried long slender screwdrivers that I could greet children driving mothers & staff dippy with "light & sound" toys by admiring them & removing the batteries... Those, the WD40, a bottle of bubble mixture & a pair of socks (which could become chewtoys, cuddly animals, puppets etc) got us through an awful lot of waiting rooms. I never could see why the nappy bag needed to be big enough to accommodate the baby, and his elder brother, until I had said baby. It's no bug out bag but the small persons sense of TEOTWI-right-the-heck-now-Unless was pretty acute.