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09-02-2006, 12:57 PM
|  | how much would you pay? | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: edinburgh
Posts: 256
| | | crappy town charity shops are the best.
I decided today to check out the local charity shops in my dive of a town, for 70p I got a shirt that could have been off the back of julian casablancas. I'm giving myself a £10 limit and I'm going to go mad on monday when I'm in again. | 
09-02-2006, 07:30 PM
|  | i am a tiny grain of sand | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Essex, UK
Posts: 287
| | | Yay for thrifting!!!! | 
09-02-2006, 07:35 PM
|  | how much would you pay? | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: edinburgh
Posts: 256
| | | if anyones up for it, they should do the 10 pound challenge (or $20 or €15 or whatever) and see who wins.
I'm going to a small town with a lot of charity shops to work on monday, and on tuesday I'll check out my own towns shops again. I'm counting this shirt though, such a bargain. | 
09-03-2006, 04:45 AM
|  | whip it | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: U.K
Posts: 948
| | | I love mine. I always end up getting shit loads for a fiver. They even have a 10p sale rack. | 
09-03-2006, 01:02 PM
|  | come on & give it to her | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: salopia
Posts: 1,584
| | | scotland officially has the best and cheapest charity shops. i went to southern scotland last week, and got a beautiful vintage italian wool coat for £3, a topshop jumper that I remember being £22 full price for £2, a dorothy perkins brand new tank top for a pound and a HUGE clip frame that were £18 in my local diy store for £1.50, and a marks and spencer's brand new with tags bra for 50p! | 
09-03-2006, 01:04 PM
|  | walking the cow | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: pollen lane
Posts: 7,906
| | | i made this same thread a few weeks ago, mergey merge?
__________________ no no never say maybe to smack bunny baby again. | 
09-03-2006, 06:24 PM
|  | Karma Duster | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Hereford / Reading
Posts: 525
| | | In Reading good charity shops are in my experience few and far between for clothes, for music we're brilliant, but clothes nay so good. However my home town has loads of good charity shops. I start jury duty this week so may indulge in some lunch time bargain hunting. I've bought loads of things from there.
I found a proper vintage thrift store for the first time (as in retro clothing from retro markets at thrift store prices. awesome.) and bought a gorgeous blouse for £3.99. | 
09-03-2006, 06:27 PM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: UK
Posts: 2,787
| | Love charidee shops for proper 80s stuff - I especially love all the shirts you can get. I recently got a fern green mini shirt-dress with white polka dots on it for a few quid.
And I have loads of lovely old brooches, too  | 
09-04-2006, 07:12 PM
| | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 14
| | | I volunteer in a charity shop once a week and this week they had a £1 bag sale. You cram as many clothes into a bag as you can for a £1! I filled 2 bags and am going back wednesday aswell! | 
09-04-2006, 07:16 PM
| | Registered Member | | Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 49
| | | Goodwill VS Salvation Army I prefer Goodwill for interesting clothes and accessories
and Salvation Army for furniture.
Both places are amazing if you just dig a little | 
09-04-2006, 09:03 PM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: CT
Posts: 374
| | | i hate the thrift shops in my town. they sell like juicy and stuff like that. its like who's going to go thrifting for used clothes like that? but, the other day, i did go to a good will a few towns over and found a mini sombrero that i just could not leave without buying. | 
09-05-2006, 01:00 AM
|  | *Tea stained* | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Australia
Posts: 1,361
| | | Got to love charity shops. | 
09-05-2006, 07:18 AM
|  | i'm with the band | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: down by the river
Posts: 1,898
| | | i love them but they are sometimes expensive, you could get the same in h&m and primark, i have got some good bargains though. | 
09-05-2006, 07:37 AM
|  | come on & give it to her | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: salopia
Posts: 1,584
| | | omfg you should have seen what I got for a total of £4.75 today. i'm so chuffed. go severn hospice <3<3 | 
09-05-2006, 08:15 AM
|  | moz angeles | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: nyc
Posts: 5,967
| | | Haha, when I was in Edinburgh I couldn't walk down that one side of the street with all the charity shops. I would seriously spend hours in them. I found a couple of bags and some cute jewelry...oh and I found a music Oxfam. | 
09-05-2006, 08:18 AM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: hampshire,england.
Posts: 3,143
| | I always feel bad if i walk into one, see nothing I want and walk back out.... i hate doing that.
My boyfriend bought a jacket from a charity shop the other day, someone thought he'd bought it from TopMan  | 
09-05-2006, 09:49 AM
|  | i'm with the band | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: down by the river
Posts: 1,898
| | Quote: |
Originally Posted by bronzemedal omfg you should have seen what I got for a total of £4.75 today. i'm so chuffed. go severn hospice <3<3 | they must be a lot cheaper where you are, i went in my local one today and they had a nice shirt with apples on it but it was £4.50 which i thought was way too much, it looked pretty old. i got some books instead. | 
09-05-2006, 09:54 AM
|  | come on & give it to her | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: salopia
Posts: 1,584
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Originally Posted by girls on top they must be a lot cheaper where you are, i went in my local one today and they had a nice shirt with apples on it but it was £4.50 which i thought was way too much, it looked pretty old. i got some books instead. | cancer research and oxfam charge stupid amounts of money. sometimes i see primark items for double the price they'd be brand new.
i get most of my stuff from the more 'independent' charity shops - such as the severn hospice which is a shropshire only one. i feel especially bad for them as they have to pay rent and electricity, etc - whereas the cancer research can pay that no problem.
however sue ryder is really, really good. they rarely charge more than £2 for tops, jeans, skirts etc. | 
09-05-2006, 10:50 AM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sunderland, UK
Posts: 258
| | All the charity shops in Sunderland are a bit dire.
I may do the £10 challenge later on however. May go through Newcastle perhaps. | 
09-06-2006, 01:40 AM
|  | bohemian artisan | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: bright lights...big city
Posts: 1,591
| | | ive never actually shopped in one(i know snobbery)i wanna get over it tho.i really want to go for the experience and see if i can come up with some great finds and deals.around here there are a ton listed in the yellow pages and i havent a clue as to which would be a better one. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
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