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More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

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  • Pollycat
    Pollycat Posts: 34,688 Forumite
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    Wizzbang wrote: »
    Yes, but sadly so many of them do still reek! I can totally understand where that perception comes from and why many of them try to shake it.
    I have a washing machine. :D
    I say to the assistant 'Don't bother folding it up, it'll be turned inside out and stuffed in the washing machine when I get home.'

    Actually, I don't find that many of the charity shops I go in smell nasty at all.
    dolly84 wrote: »
    Do you think we have Mary Portas to blame for the whole 'fancy' charity shop thing. They need to re-find their niche, the whole idea was for them to be different to all the other shops but not try to be an antique shop either.

    I am venturing out today on the hunt for curtains.
    dolly84 - you have hit the nail on the head. :T

    Revamping for revamping's sake. :(
  • Owain_Moneysaver
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    Wizzbang wrote: »
    They are largely fitted out with pallet crates on the walls to display shoes, crockery etc and fancy decor, or vintage style - old gilt mirrors, french dressers, high-end paper carrier bags etc.

    Local Chest Heart and Stroke Booteek has an Aga, plastic grass on the floor, belfast sink in the cash desk, and fake garden sheds for displaying shoes.

    And brown tie-on luggage labels.
    A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.
  • GreyQueen
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    Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »
    Local Chest Heart and Stroke Booteek has an Aga, plastic grass on the floor, belfast sink in the cash desk, and fake garden sheds for displaying shoes.

    And brown tie-on luggage labels.
    :D Too funny! D'you think they've got a competion on to see how many cliches they could they could tick the boxes on with a single shop.

    I have to say, in thirty-odd years of chazzering, I've never encountered a smelly one, and I'm accursed with a very acute sense of smell. Stinky junkshops, yes, but not chazzers.

    Have made a donation on behalf of a friend today first thing, but didn't stop for any shopping, not feeling in the right mood for shopping.
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  • Miró
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    Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »
    Local Chest Heart and Stroke Booteek has an Aga, plastic grass on the floor, belfast sink in the cash desk, and fake garden sheds for displaying shoes.

    And brown tie-on luggage labels.

    :rotfl: Now that I would like to see!

    The funniest thing I have seen used in a Booteek chazza display is a large canoe with a pointy end chopped off, tipped up on its now blunt end with the seats turned into shelves and used to display books.:o

    And yep, I think Mary Portas has a lot to answer for!

    I sometimes have a problem with chazzas being a bit too liberal with the air freshener to mask unpleasant odours. I struggle to breathe with the noxious chemicals.....
  • Lucy5781
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    Found the Buzz Lightyear hoodie for DS I'd seen in the hospice boutique window display a couple of weeks ago. Was on the rail today and was right size as expected. £2.
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  • dolly84
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    Didn't get any curtains yesterday but did get a lovely little lamp for DD's room, it is a distressed sort of cream and subtle gold finish, square base and candlestick design with a cream shade, the shade had beaded tassels on so we cut those off, it even came with the right size energy saving bulb - £5.
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  • Pollycat
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    Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »
    Local Chest Heart and Stroke Booteek has an Aga, plastic grass on the floor, belfast sink in the cash desk, and fake garden sheds for displaying shoes.

    And brown tie-on luggage labels.
    Lordy! Lordy!
    I feel I'm missing out. :rotfl:
    Mir! wrote: »
    The funniest thing I have seen used in a Booteek chazza display is a large canoe with a pointy end chopped off, tipped up on its now blunt end with the seats turned into shelves and used to display books.:o
    I think Miro's canoe quite possibly trumps Owain's aga. ;)
  • Owain_Moneysaver
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    Pollycat wrote: »
    I think Miro's canoe quite possibly trumps Owain's aga. ;)

    I forgot to mention the stained glass windows inset into the partition walls and the books fixed with wrought-iron effect shelf brackets to the wall to make 'shelves'.
    A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.
  • Miró
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    Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »
    I forgot to mention the stained glass windows inset into the partition walls and the books fixed with wrought-iron effect shelf brackets to the wall to make 'shelves'.

    Where is this wondrous place....might even be worth a day trip just to see it?!! :D
  • Pollycat
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    Mir! wrote: »
    Where is this wondrous place....might even be worth a day trip just to see it?!! :D
    Absolutely!
    I'm up for it. :dance:
    A MSE charity shop outing. _party_
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