Re: Charity Shop Bargains...

by Sparhawk on 6th November 2011, 3:14 am

Have been managing to get around ours a couple of times a week, picked up several books for £1 or 50p, I now find it hard to pay anything more than £3 for a book, & that would have to be a thick good condition hardback...

But a couple of my other recent goodies include:

a "Jemp" greenhouse window opener for £2.75
an "Owl" wireless Electricity Monitor for £3.99, the next day there was one the same, in the same shop for £4.99

& my latest...

a "Tefal Quick Cup" water heater (as recommended by "Self Sufficientish" & "Energy Saving" sites...) for £4 ... the same model seen on Fleabay on the same day for £40 "Buy it Now"...

by CraftyBirdUK on 21st November 2011, 11:58 pm

I've been on the look out for wool at our local charity shops but they were out of stock....visited a relative and happened to pop into a local charity shop near theirs and grabbed 19 balls of wool for under £6, not full balls, but plenty of creating going to take place now :-)

by MrsC on 22nd November 2011, 8:08 am

Out of interest - do people find certain "chains" of charity shop better for different things? I'm wondering if it's always the case or if it is just a very local thing based on the different distribution warehouses that the charities have?

For example - round here there is one Cancer Research shop that does a fantastic trade in secondhand records. Lots of music types that I know go there all the time, yet they're not your usual charity shop shopper. Yet the same shop doesn't do any children's clothes at all. A local Children's Society is fab for toys and always has loads in. A local YMCA shop has amazingly cheap children's clothes whilst a hospice in Welwyn has an amazing range of furniture (but the grumpiest shop manager ever!)

Whatever - I'm convinced that all the best things go to the Isle of Wight for Spar! Wink

Mrs C x

by Dandelion on 22nd November 2011, 5:23 pm

I like the way that the British Heart Foundation shops sort their clothes into sizes. On holiday a few years ago I bought some brilliant things from the BHF shop in Tunbridge Wells. I don't buy clothes here in Ledbury because the town has an ageing population, so most of the stuff is for pensioners. Sue Rider has a lot of new stuff (dolls house furniture for instance) - the best place here is the local hospice shop because it has a lot of books and interesting odds and ends.

by Sparhawk on 4th April 2012, 8:40 pm

Oooh I haven't been in here fore a while have I...

Recent highlights include:

Marillion Double C.D. - £3.99
Bag of "handymans" tools - £3
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells 2 - 99p
2x Marguerite Patten Wartime Cookbooks - £1 each
Leatherwork Manual of Techniques - £1.20

Oh, call the drummer - Mr Collins will do, drum roll required...
My best one for a long time, & probably one of my best evers...
This is the one...

The brand new unused http://www.freshlifesprouter.com/main.asp that is sat in the kitchen growing some lovely fresh beansprouts for the weekend...

£4

(yep 4 of Sparhawks squids)...

happydance

by Wilhelm Von Rhomboid on 4th April 2012, 9:01 pm

Sparhawk wrote:
Oh, call the drummer - Mr Collins will do,

No. He will not.

by Jaded Green on 4th April 2012, 9:44 pm

I'll lend you Miss JG for a drum roll.

I think drumming must be becoming more common. Our next door neighbour drums too. He's built a sound proof shed in the garden. (but I can hear him a bit)

by polgara on 5th April 2012, 10:40 am

He could have called his younger brother, but no one would have known him Laughing