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giraffe

Joined: 07 Oct 2005
Posts: 272
Location: Nottingham

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 05 4:21 pm Post subject:
I recently got a beautiful old fashioned coffee grinder with a handle you turn at the side from the PDSA shop for a tenner. Same shop - book of bread maker recipes - £1 and 1980s copy of Mrs Beeton - £1

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 05 7:45 pm Post subject:

Look out for a raised pie mould for me, will you?

I have some lovely finds from charity shops - any amounts of clothes and old towels (for dogs) a fabulous big glass jug, bueatiful natural knitting wools (30p each! Autumnal coloured cotton chenille - its gorgeous) and lots of shopping and work baskets to put my works-in-progress in - latest find, a butter dish (don't have spreads anymore) with the price tag still on the bottom!

Still on the lookout for a walking stick (for foraging) and bath matts for the hallway.

Naomi

Joined: 26 Mar 2005
Posts: 1945

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 05 8:17 pm Post subject:

I am an avid jumble sale /boot fair /charity shop/junk shop and skip rummager!
I have found lovely pieces of furnture in skips and once stripped and waxed they are really beautiful additions to our home.
I buy loads of our household items, as well as clothes for all my family members from charity shops or jumble sales etc .I also buy books from charity shops as well as ex library books that I buy from the mobile library that visits us every fortnight.
I even get the occasional bargain on ebay too. (But you must take delivery charges into the equation)
I much prefer to buy second hand items, as it not only recycles them, but saves me money too.
My daughter has a lovely warm winter dress ,originally from Monsoon, that I bought this week for 50p from our local charity shop. But I have noticed that some items in charity shops are not far off the new prices you get in the cheaper stores now.

jamsam

Joined: 21 Oct 2005
Posts: 2560
Location: erm....i dont know, its dark.

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 05 2:12 pm Post subject:

OOOOHHHHHHH

i jumped on this thread as soona s i saw it. i too am a charity shopoholic.
and im proud!!!

in my past career i was a manager for 3 different chains of charity shops and i know my stuff. i was brought up in jumble sales, charity shops, antique markets and the such. now i have my own kids, nothing fills them with more excitemant than apound coin and a new charity shop, they are the new experts, telling me what came out when and where the action man gets his boots from!
my best buy, apart from a complete meakin 1065 maori dinner service for £13 was a little ring. i paid 50p for it in my art school days when i was working weekends in a big cahrity shop in surry. i wore it for two or three years and when the back finally broke i took it to the jewellers next door to get some thing to hold it together. the jeweller refused to touch it. it turned out after an appraisal to be russian turn of the century white gold and 13 diamond wedding ring.as you can imagine, i fell off my chair.
it is now repaired and waiting for mr right.
well, at least i have the ring...and the venue...and the transprot....and the dres...oh bloody hell, i need a man.

jamsam

Joined: 21 Oct 2005
Posts: 2560
Location: erm....i dont know, its dark.

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 05 4:54 pm Post subject:
i have just realised how awful my spelling has become...transprot??? surry???? i just get so excited at the thought of telling you all things that i cant get my keyboard to work! if in doubt, blame the computer

Craftygreenpoet

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 9
Location: Edinburgh

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 06 8:01 pm Post subject: Charity Shop Treasures
Yes, Crafty Green Poet is a charityshopaholic too... All my clothes (apart from underwear and usually shoes) and all my books (except those i pick up through the wonderful booksharing community that is bookcrossing (www.bookcrossing.com). I think i dress better and read better as a result..... (Has this posted in the right place? I'm new and my computer is confusing me at the minute.....)

tigger

Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 725
Location: Bologna (Italy)

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 06 8:33 pm Post subject:
Can tiggers go green? I'm so jealous! there aren't any charity shops, car boot sales or jumble sales out here! I go on a mad binge when I'm back in the summer, but the plane baggage allowance is so small

nora

Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Posts: 1539
Location: West Yorkshire

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 06 8:45 pm Post subject:

tigger wrote:

Can tiggers go green? I'm so jealous! there aren't any charity shops, car boot sales or jumble sales out here! I go on a mad binge when I'm back in the summer, but the plane baggage allowance is so small

You could organize a jumble sale - you may start a new craze.

tigger

Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 725
Location: Bologna (Italy)

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 06 9:20 pm Post subject:
I did ask someone if it was do-able but they said that the tax system makes it to complicated (you're taxed for breathing in Italy!-well, just about!)

Lozzie

Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 2595

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 06 9:11 am Post subject:
I thought tax-evasion was the Italian national sport, though? Got a lovely great-big jam making pot yesterday for less than two quid. Happy bunny!

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 7761
Location: 91ï¿½ N

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 06 10:36 am Post subject:

tigger wrote:

I did ask someone if it was do-able but they said that the tax system makes it to complicated (you're taxed for breathing in Italy!-well, just about!)

So is there any market for second hand goods in Italy?

hils

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 568
Location: Nottingham

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 06 10:48 am Post subject:
Most recent include - a beautiful funky knitted zip up hoodie (for my 3 yr old) which is turquoise with purple stars. £1.45 A massive turned wood bowl £1 Wool which I buy but have only ever knitted one thing in my life! A Caithness paper weight for £2 very pretty.

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 06 12:55 pm Post subject:
Lovat tweed Argyll kilt jacket in near-perfect nick £15 (they cost a fortune new).

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 06 1:00 pm Post subject:
Anyone notice a surge of nearly new x-Christmas pressies at this time of year?

Karen70

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 10
Location: Svartland, Mercia

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 06 2:58 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Anyone notice a surge of nearly new x-Christmas pressies at this time of year?

Yep. I love this time of year. It's great if you want to pick up cheap (unopened and often very nice) toiletries or gifts for birthdays.

My best (so far) charity shop finds have been a Singer treadle sewing machine, a meat mincer (hand powered like my mum had over 30 years ago), various bits of clothing and fabulous books. I love charity shops because I don't know what I'm going to find.

Wassail

Karen

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