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Today I bought DH a gorgeous Austin Reed tweedy jacket in new condition for £2!

I gave them a lot more, but the truth is there is no way we could have afforded this in a 'real' shop.

Charity shops are fab.

An incredibly warm scottish cashmere jumper for about a quid that is really good quality and must have cost at least 100 quid new.

Gorgeous coachbuilt silvercross navy and white pram, had a sign for £10 on it, but they were having a half price sale and I got it for £5.

A maisy book (Maisy's bedtime)- was 10p, boardbook, in perfect condition when we got it- is falling apart now- dd coming up on 2, and has had it EVERY bedtime (eve & naps rofl) for past 14 months!
She loves it.

A beautiful camel hair coat for £10. Fecking moths got it in the end though.

a four pound (no pound sign on american keyboard) hand painted 1950s full length taffeta ball gown while I ws in college. It fitted like it was made for me. Only snag was that it couldnt be washed or dry cleaned cos of the way it was painted (ornate flower print) so it had to spend a lOT of time in the garden. It was before the days of fabreeze.

Beautiful red silk waistcoat with a paisly'ish pattern on the front. £5. 20 years ago. Wore it at our Christmas works do this year, to wide admiration. Love charity shops.

a hermes scarf for a quid (also without a pound sign)
or a huge tub of yarn - noro, rowan etc - worth hundreds of pounds altogether - i also gave a lot more than they were asking for.

oh loads
dinner jacket for DH - perfect fit - £5
lovely old ceramic flying ducks (when I was 16 - I had a very developed sense of kitsch even then) - £6
prada shoes - £5

oh I can't even remember - so many clothes,shoes and bags. oh yes I have a Lulu Guinness nappy bag which was £5

loads and loads of toys, including DD's beloved cuddly hippo who was 50p

in NZ - 2 sixties chairs, $2 each
Wiggles toy guitar - $4

and I have a fabulous array of crockery and kitchenware from charidee shops too

OMG! My Dinner jacket! I had it for choir concerts to go over my oh so unattractive full length black skirt and I used to wear it over my ball gowns as a coat. I spent a fiver on it (useful way to avoid lack of blimmin poundsign there). I wore it to a ball and this tosser tried to take it. I was livid (not only but also cos it contained a pair of champagne glasses I had snaffled as a bet . Someone else then told me he had tried to pinch it cos of the label and lining. It was a Jermyn Street Taylor and was a 40s jacket and worth quite a bit! <hmm...where TF is it now I wonder???>

Baby Bjorn sling for 4 quid.

I bought a pair of Formes maternity jeans for about £5. They were the most comfortable things I wore that pregnancy and looked great too. Last week I bought a Monsoon top for £4 and wore it at a posh meal with dp together with my skirt that cost £5. I think my boots were the most expensive part of the whole outfit!

that ballgown sounds wonderful

Bumping this old thread to brag about today's haul!

I got a 100% cashmere top for £15 - its a purple v neck top and soooo soft.

And a black skirt from Monsoon for £6.

Anyone else find anything good lately?

Bought a fat face coat for my ds age 8 for £2.95 today, he didn't need it but its lovely.

I just have to add mine here, too.

When DD1 was 2 years old she wet herself in town so I popped into the charity shop for a dry pair of trousers to get her home in. GOrgeous trousers for £1.50. They lasted DD1, DD2, DD3 and DD4 (DS was let off as they are pink! ) Then they went round again as 3/4 length trousers. DD4 (very skinny) is now 12 and she has grown out of them this summer as they now stop above her knees. DD1 now 18, so I reckon I got 16 summers wear out of £1.50. Brilliant!!

Brand new, in box, tags on laces, tissue paper in toes, my size - brown leather PF Flyers (like Converse shoes, but cultier) - £4 (normal retail for £40ish), about 18 montgs ago.

Cycling waterproof/windshirt (Buffalo, if that means anything to anyone) £1.50, 20 years ago, have worn it for every bike ride/hill walk/climb/ski ever since, there have been many.

Breadmaker - last month - tenner - love it!

DS's Next anorak for this year - 75p!

My favourite ever dress, 50's, still wearing it every summer 23 years later, still stopped in the street and asked where I got it, 25 fecking p!!!!

Also a nice tweed mens jacket when I was a student, a year later I found a half-sovreign in the pocket lining when I was spectacularly skint, and sold it for £50

I got a Diane Von Furstenburg 100% (non wrap) dress for 1.99 last summer. I was pretty darn pleased about that!

Not really a charity shop but second hand clothes corner of some factory shoe shop about 17 years ago - £7 for a pure wool, very long (I'm tall!) Gianni Versace coat

at the Diane Von Furstenburg dress.

Vintage Norman Hartnell suit - £15
60s evening dress by Roland Klein - £11.99
James Jeans - £4.99
Burberry raincoat - £3.50
Yellow cashmere cardigan at the village jumble - 20p

Charity shops in posh areas on a Monday have all the best stuff - all the new stock from the weekend gets put out.

I also tried on a £4 Hobbes skirt in perfect nick today - but the colours were too zany for me.

I have loads of
crew
fatface
white stuff
next
M&S clothes from charity shop

Nothing more than a fiver and mist things nearer £1!)
and a seriously good clothes horse (retail for £30+) for £2 that i got 10 years ago and has saved me loads and loads in tumble drying.

also loads and loads of books

A pair of Fat Face jeans, with the tags on, for £4.

Black suede gucci loafers brand new in bag and box!£6