More Charity Shop Bargains for 2018 & beyond!

Lucy5781 wrote: »

Being a buggy user myself I'm always hyper cautious about not blocking exits etc (ten years in facilities management with full on health and safety training etc).

What I find really irritating is the frequency with which people never bother offering to hold the door for me. Don't get me wrong, I can always manage it myself, but currently being over seven months pregnant as well, a little assistance would be appreciated. One older woman happened to be on the same chazzer route as me the other week and she let the door shut on me in three shops in a row, then in the third shop started cooing over how cute my son was in the buggy!!

And that's a whole new thread all on its own!
I always hold doors for people - and say 'thanks' if someone does it for me.
But the number of people who just breeze past when you do open the door for them is shocking - and saddening.

Lucy5781 wrote: »

I was brought up to hold open doors for those less able and being 5'8 I often also offer to help people reach items up on high shelves as well....

You'd be my best friend.

Just getting ready to go on my weekly trek round the shops (Aldi, Fultons, Iceland and Tesco) and charity shops (5) in the village.
It usually takes me about 2-and-a-half hours.
My little shopping trolley has done many miles along this route, I wish I'd had some sort of measuring device on it.

Mir! wrote: »

And then, and I can't quite believe I witnessed this, another woman walking around eating chips! In between stuffing chips in her mouth she was rifling through the clothes with greasy fingers....ick ick. Then she decided to try on a coat and so she asked a complete stranger to hold her chips...and the woman obliged!!! Wot is the world coming to? (Or am I completely out of sync these days?)

:rotfl: The woman was probably so shocked that she didn't know what to say.

Artytarty wrote: »

My weakness is the till, credit card transactions bringing on a cold sweat!

Local charity shop (Cancer Research) has had two dud £20 notes in a week.

I will happily hold a door open for anyone, (it's just about being kind isn't it?), man/woman/child/old/young/disabled/able bodied - even been known to hold a door for a dog a few times too And then there was the time I held the door open in a major supermarket for a mouse.....it had been disturbed in the veggie section and made a dash for the door which was shut....but not for long!

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Where I do find a stark difference is in those who are rude, pushy and grabby. My observation is that they often are not UK raised (that is not to say that all immigrants are rude, far from it. I think it!!!8217;s a behavioural aspect of life here that just hasn!!!8217;t registered as yet).

That kind of behaviour is rife here too.....I would have hesitated to comment on it myself, (foot in mouth syndrome!), but you put it so well!

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

:rotfl: The woman was probably so shocked that she didn't know what to say.

I would have been too! I remember, yonks ago, when smoking was acceptable everywhere being asked by someone in a shop to hold a cigarette whilst they got their purse out. I have always had a phobia about smoking and all it's apparatus and just could not touch a cigarette....I ran out of the shop and burt into tears

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Local charity shop (Cancer Research) has had two dud £20 notes in a week.

I've just realised I was given three old pound coins in my change yesterday from the chazza shop....I'm sure it was a mistake and I should have noticed at the time. Oh well, will have to put them in a charity box somewhere