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.

Yay for thrifting!!!!

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.

I love mine. I always end up getting shit loads for a fiver. They even have a 10p sale rack.

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!

i made this same thread a few weeks ago, mergey merge?

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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.

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

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!

I prefer Goodwill for interesting clothes and accessories
and Salvation Army for furniture.
Both places are amazing if you just dig a little

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.

Got to love charity shops.

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.

omfg you should have seen what I got for a total of £4.75 today. i'm so chuffed. go severn hospice <3<3

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.

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

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.

All the charity shops in Sunderland are a bit dire.

I may do the £10 challenge later on however. May go through Newcastle perhaps.

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.