Chazzers - do you budget?

I have developed a new rule this year - one in, one out. I am only allowed to buy something if I am prepared to get rid of something in the same category. So, for example, a tee shirt in blue developed a hole right in the middle of the front where it was impossible to mend without it showing (due to the nature of the material and a patch would have just looked silly there!) So next round of pottering with a friend round charity shops I kept my eye out for a blue tee shirt. Having found one the holey one went to the rag box. Since most of my ornaments are presents from friends or memories of places past I wont be buying any of them; I have enough crockery so I wont be buying that; I wont be buying books cos I have a stack of some 20 odd that I am finishing and then donating to my local chazzer...... I live a very contented life with enough stuff - one in one out! I dont need more! Now if only I could apply that to the pounds of fat around my waist :-)

Budget for charity shops? Nah. I go in the cheap ones and splurge to my heart's content and come away with a bag full and change from a tenner. Really, I'm trying to bring less stuff into the house so that is what I set as a limit.

Teenage boys stuff? Maybe Pull and Bear?

Chris25 wrote: »

Lyn, I really wish I had your restraint - too many times I come home with something which " only cost £1 - bargain!".

I then realise I'll never use/wear/listen to/read it and justify the sale by telling myself I'm helping the charity by buying it, and then again by donating it back.

When I do donate it back it's not so much of a problem but I have a nasty habit of letting it sit in the drawer/wardrobe/bookcase/whatever, which means it's more clutter to deal with.

I just wish I thought before I bought!

I have a policy of '1 in, 1 out' as my wardrobes are full.

So even if it's only £1 I do think hard about whether I really want it.

I was looking at Galileo thermometers in our local hospice shop yesterday.
They had 2, 1 was £4 and the other was £3 but I decided I want a taller one with more 'balls' in.
I think the OH would like it on his desk in the study and it would make a good surprise Christmas present.

I've seen one on Amazon - 44cms tall with what looks like 10 'balls'. It's £20.47 & £4 postage so not that expensive really if I don't find one in a charity shop in the next 6 or 7 months.

If you were to walk past some chazzas which would they be? I cannot even though some are more expensive than others, as well as sorting their goods by colour and not size.

Which are the cheapest chazzas? The community hospice ones?

My ex-neighbour was a marketing manager. She informed me that the SAME clothing left the factories bearing labels of VARIOUS shops to be sold to the public at a wide range of prices from cheap to expensive.