tobe shocked that my colleague early 60s, who has been through the mill financially, lost a house, never sets foot in charity shops?

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is it just me, when my dc were little lots of their toys and clothes came from there. now i am a regular freegle user. although i dont like car boot sales, but i am shocked that she doesnt ever go in charity shops. am i prejudice because of her age and financial status?

Everything in our charity shop seems to be size 12 and I'm not

DD1 had a lovely denim skirt, size 8

You see the problem, I think people only donate clothes after accepting their diets have failed.
Anything that actually ever fitted is to scruffy to donate.

Charity shops round here are full of expensive five-year-old high street clothes students buy and claim as 'vintage' (while the rest of us who remember seeing whatever it was in M&S the first time around piss ourselves laughing). I get good books from them, but that's about it.

Even if she is being snobby, if she's lost her house, maybe she's clinging on to her cherished snobberies to make herself feel better. It's very human.

A 'vintage' shop has opened up in our town. It's full of awful clothes from the 80s and 90s at crazy prices. It's only ever students in there buying stuff, thinking it makes them cool.

I never buy clothes from charity shops but I do buy Christmas cards, books and other stuff. I also donate things I no longer need. Maybe because I was dressed from jumble sales as a child (I'm 50 +) and also had to resort to dressing my own DC from them during the 1980s.

I don't mind buying from carboots. People shop where they want to and it's not up to anyone else to judge.

I wouldn't wear secondhand clothes from a charity shop and I'm a pauper! I don't like the smell and I'd be afraid of getting scabies/fleas/ringworm or God knows what! Even though they say they're all washed those shops still honk.

Practically every stitch I own is Primark. At least you know it's new, clean and no-one has worn it before. Even if it is supposed to be covered in formaldehyde!

I'm looking forward to the car boots starting again.

I'd be surprised too, OP.

the vintage shops are my fav, i guess it depends on what vintage stuff they have but the majority i have been in have been quite groovy

i miss the old american second hand shops like flip and american retro, they were supercool

I tend to find charity shops more expensive than George at Asda.

I agree PeneloPeePitstop; our local Asda regularly has sale items in for under £5. I recently got a dress from there for £2.50 and have had school skirts for DD2 for £1, and tops for DS for £1 too. Much cheaper than charity shop prices.

I only ever go in charity shops to drop off stuff we no longer need or want, although I used to buy DS a few toys from them every now and again when he was tiny.
I don't really like shops like Primark or TK Maxx either, because they're too messy. If you know exactly what you want and you're prepared to rummage, then fine, but forget it if you're just mooching around.
I don't like car boots either and I have a wardrobe full of stuff that I am going to try selling on eBay, but I feel a bit guilty about trying to make money when I would normally donate it.
To summarise, I seem to be in a mission to not buy in the first place!

Charity Shops - the only place you can buy 2nd hand well used Primark shit for more than it cost new. I don't know who sets the pricing policies but whoever it is needs taking outside and shot for having no business sense.

Who wants to buy other peoples rubbish, because that's all it is, a shop selling somebody's crap they don't want.

Is this a joke? Why on earth would you be shocked about someone not using a charity shop?

You sound like a massive busy body

Zombie thread

FFS this is 4 years old.

People on other thread looking for examples of inverted snobbery, OP's post is a brilliant one.

I only ever use them for books (well cookery books etc as I have a kindle) and DVDs. I don't think I've bought clothes from there.

I buy in charity shops to resell ducks buns

Some of them are very expensive. You just need to find the right places.

Touristy areas are bad for expensive charity shops.

Bollocks zombie

Bonkers. I'm skint and I wouldn't buy stuff from a charity shop. Because I'm a snob. Maybe she's a snob too.

I don't either for two reasons:

1. I can't be arsed to trawl through all the shit to find the one decent thing in there (a bit like TK Max)

2. they smell like mouldy old curtains.

I'm always a bit bewildered at people that make a real point of not going in charity shops, but I'm not sure I'd be shocked by it.

DD has just turned 12 and screws up her nose whenever I mention charity shops or anything second hand which I find hilarious as she's had all sorts from charity shops since she was tiny. I hope it's just her age as I think they can be a lot of fun, especially for household bits and books.

I don't have the patience to buy clothes in charity shops, but my mum, who's in her 70's will spend hours rooting through and gets both me and her some nice things from time to time.

I'm very frugal....I don't go to charity shops because I buy what I need, on the rare occasion I buy something I want, what are the chances of finding something that specific in a charity shop?

Urgh zombie thread.