Charity shop joy...

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Any charity shop fiends here?
You will never guess I got a Calvin Klein women's shirt, as new, fine mauve and blue stripes on white, my size, off the POUND RAIL at a charity shop in my local town today...

Then later I found a little Jorli jacket, OK that was a fiver, its like thick matted cardigan wool, but a jacket, in grey.

Then a pair of brand new black jeans, kind of mum cut, high waist.

I look so smart, and spent £13.

Maybe we should have a charity shop tenner challenge?

Got a real wool jumper recently.

For all of 1.50 :)

I love a charity shop bargain. Found some great Boden and Joules stuff over the summer. DH is better at it than I am. He's found some Gant and Barber.

I stopped going to charity shops because they started pricing branded items too high. My local had a lovely black knee length dress donated. Not Calvin Klein but a similarly nice designer label. They put it in the window labelled £150. It stayed there for a few years because nobody would pay that much, then they binned it because it was sun faded. What a waste.

that is just silly , isn't it BBB?
Where on earth do you live? Marylebone high St?

Ooh, I'm going charity shopping tomorrow! My best finds last year were a hooded leather jacket for £20 which is both warm and waterproof, and an unworn cashmere Boden dress for £25.

I'd quite like a man's corduroy blazer for the autumn, and charity shops seem like a good place to look.

Oh, that is a shame, BigBlueBubble. I think charity shops should be allowed to make money, that's partly the point of them, but there's a limit to how much I'll pay for a second hand garment and I think they've lost sight of that.
I worked in a charity shop for a couple of years in Clapham. One thing I was really aware of was that it provided a more hidden service to the community: yes, it was providing visibility and money for the charity, but it was also giving local people on very limited means somewhere they could go and shop and hopefully find something they loved that they could afford. Not to be underestimated, and a shame to lose that.

A long wool coat from Marks and Spencer for £7.50

A Monsoon short sleeved cardigan in exactly the right shade to go over a summer dress for a wedding when the weather got chilly. £3.
DH got a wool blazer from a local tailor in the charity shop 2 doors away. Cost new £270. Cost to DH, £12.50

BNWT Jaeger silk mix dress £15 (was labelled at £265 new) I love that dress!

I got a French connection biker jacket for £8

Was it traid by any chance?

They have £1 sales to clear whole shop and start again. So many designer finds.

Best one being a lambskin jacket. Showroom sample. Small ink mark sleeve £10 should of been near on £1k if new. Bit of vanish pen mark came right out.

Wow, Notquite, that is a bargain.

The charity shop in question was in North Yorkshire. It’s an affluent area and some nice stuff gets donated but it’s priced at the level I’d expect to pay in a trendy “vintage” shop. I realise that charity shops need to make a profit but they also used to have bargains worth digging for. If all the good stuff is priced high I might as well just go to a vintage shop where no digging is required!

Oooo I love a charity shop bargain! I recently got a brand new, tags on Boden dress for about £8 and my favourite, a Jigsaw real leather biker jacket for £10

no not Traid, a charity called Tenovus.
I have also recently had a Paul Smith men's shirt for £3 (I kind of fell on it, gibbering),
and also a Savile Row men's shirt, narrow pink and white stripes, white collar and cuffs.
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I have given up on the charity shops in my small town. They are all very expensive £5 for a primark t shirt that is slightly wiffy and mis shapen, it wouldn't have cost much more new!😁

Now I shop at a dress agency, its a bit more pricey - boden or jules dresses £15 but the shop owner is very particular and stock changes every 6 weeks. Just bought a fab joules coat £25 barely been worn and beautiful.

I LOVE a charity shop bargain... best have been a Topshop leather biker for 14 quid (250 new), Cos red dress coat, 60's style, 8 quid, Banana Republic navy wool trousers, 4 quid and my best bargain recently, a Zakee Shariff navy fine needlecord blazer for 1.50 ❤.

that.s right BBB.

Essentially people go to charity shops because they don't have that much to spend on clothes, and they are all looking for a bargain, or at least reasonably priced stuff...
I would never be able to have this stuff new..

Ooh. A Bonpoint coat in great nick for DD for £8.50.

Charity shopping has become my favourite thing to do! There's an excellent children's charity shop by me and I've had loads of gap new with tags stuff for DC for £2 a pop.

Some of them charge so much for things though which puts me off and takes the fun out of it. I donated a jack wills dress and found it in the shop for £30! I didn't really pay much more than that we got it in the sale!

I do find the bargain hunting can become addictive though.

yes I have two towns near (ish) me, one of them puts silly prices on eg old primark T-shirts.

(Having said that I did score a vintage Jaeger cardi off the pound rail there once.)

The other town is the joyful three quid shirt place..

I got a joules dinosaur rain coat for £5 🤩🤩🤩

What's the difference between a "dress agency" and a second hand clothes shop,

There was an AMA thread the other day by a charity shop manager who admitted that they google the labels and put up prices on anything that’s worth having. Spoilsports