What is your charity shop bargain of the week?

Found DsS a Tresspass waterproof jacket. £2.50 . Perfect timing as he has a three day outdoor activity school trip in May.

And still plenty of £1 bits for DS. He's seven months now and I've got a great hoard of items up to age two :rofl:

Mrs_Ryan wrote: »

Just had to mention this as I saw the discussion about seeing stuff you have donated on sale- I gave 4 huge bin bags to the BHF a few weeks back as they were the only ones in my area that would collect. I know there was some very good stuff in there- a Quiz maxi dress (one of the ball gown types) worn once, a Hollister t-shirt BNWT are just two things I remember- I happened to be walking past the shop earlier and although it was shut I stopped and looked in the window. Imagine my amazement to see a pair of Superdry silver canvas trainers I had paid £10 for in an outlet (although I had seen them in the Superdry store for £25) which I had worn, although I seem to recall only a few times as they were horrendously uncomfortable but the inner sole was quite worn away- in the window priced at £18!

This is why I cant donate to BHF ,I hate to see things with such high price tags, even more than the original price , I would much rather take a few things at a time into town on the bus to one of the smaller chazzers who sell things at a more realistic price, I know they want as much as they can get for the charity but surely selling cheaper would have a better turn over.

Bought a pair of TU grey leggings, new for £1 from Air Ambulance.

I never cease to be amazed at the good quality of Sainsbury's clothes.

I really bought them for wearing round the house but think I might swop them with my 'going out' Next ones as the TU ones are much nicer quality.

found a lovely triple dressing table mirror - like new, £12.50.
It's from Next & similar to this one - I think it may have been part of a set & someone only wanted the dressing table

http://www.next.co.uk/g501218s9#800676

KitKatMum2 wrote: »

A few years ago we took seven bin liners full of items (decent stuff, not tat) plus a few bigger items to one of our local charity shops. We are signed up to gift aid and had a letter around a year later saying 'Thank you for your donations, they raised a total of 70p for charity of which gift aid is xxx'.

I will admit I always wondered what happened to the rest of it - I like to hope they just forgot to mark most of it as a gift aid donation - but I do wonder, especially as there was a full bin bag of my husband's designer clothing amongst it :huh: I don't believe for a second that they only got 70p for everything.

Lets hope they did just forget to mark them as Gift Aided. I must admit, I've sometimes wondered why they haven't received a higher Gift Aid amount when I've handed in a a particularly nice/expensive item but then I suppose if it doesn't sell they might move it around the shops or reduce it, thereby lowering the amount of Gift Aid. On the whole, I've been happy to get the quarterly emails letting me know how much they've manage to raise.


I have a friend who volunteers in an Oxfam & they are allowed first pickings but must pay the going rate. I have another who helps in a small local shop and they can take things with a 10% discount - but I think they can more or less price them at whatever they think - and I know of others in there who have taken home stuff to try and haven't returned it for two weeks! I'd like to think they haven't worn it then brought it back but a lot of other people might have had the chance to buy that article in that two weeks - especially in the run up to Christmas when every day closer to Christmas, it's more likely to stay on the shelf because folk have already bought what they want or don't have the time to go CS shopping.