To ask what your best ever bargain is?

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I absolutely love finding a bargain. It gives me the hugest dopamine hit.

I think I've had my biggest ever bargain this week and I am absolutely over the moon.

I found an £8000 Selva furniture set on sideboard, bookcase and display cabinet on Facebook market place. The pieces are only a couple of years old.

It is all handmade in Italy and I cannot believe I managed to purchase it all for £600. I haven't stopped grinning since I picked it all up yesterday. It is the most beautiful furniture I have ever seen in my life.

Other bargains that have given me huge highs are

Immaculate Teak outdoor dining table and benches for £50 on eBay

Huge Loaf wodge velvet sofa was £4500 and found one for £600 at trade secret

I would absolutely love to know the mega special bargains you have found. Bargain sporn? I'm hoping I can get some second hand dopamine from your finds

£400 for a smart for four car. Bought in 2017 still going strong.
Also 2 mouse traps 37p from Sainsburys. They have caught several stray field mice from the farmer's field behind my house.

A jumperoo for £1 from the local tip. Having passed it around friends between DS outgrowing it and DD arriving, we are down to 20p per baby and it still has plenty of life left.

I love a bargain. I have bought quite a few bits of furniture on ebay and Facebook marketplace where people are just wanting rid of them. My favourite is my extending dining table and chairs which were originally from The Pier and cost us £50. We've had it a good ten years now and everytime we extend it I get happy good bargain vibes!
Also our this year holiday. A really nice 4* all inc week in Tenerife. Booked during covid for £2500. The same holiday next year is £6k! It was gorgeous!

I picked up a whole selection of Elemis products in a charity shop! They were selling them all off for a pound or 2 each, and gift with purchase sizes for 10p each, I think I got about £400 worth for under £20!

I got a gorgeous pair of wine coloured velvet trousers from ebay last year for a total cost of £8.20 Inc delivery. They fit like they were made for me and retail at over £850. They are Balenciaga though so now I'm in a moral quandary....they don't have any markings on the outside though only on the inner label.
Just the shine has been taken off my fabulous bargain.

When I was about 6 I went to the school fair and bought a long necklace of gold bars interconnected with pearls, it cost 20p and ohhhh I was so fancy. I got home and my Granda practically ripped it off my neck and it belonged to my Nanny from then on. I found out recently when she died it was valued at 10k, and I got the necklace back. So I must have had a good eye early on.

I can't buy anything new without looking up gumtree, ebay, charity shops etc first, it's sometimes a curse as for large items it takes a long time to decorate until you find the ONE, especially when I live in a house with no real storage - a garage is a necessity for -crap- treasure filling should I ever move

Wow @70sDuvet . That's 20p well spent!

Korres bodywash 25p a bottle at Sainsburys.

Was that Gordon Ramsay stuff after a MN thread several years ago, because I did the same?! And I sold my existing china on eBay and made ££. Had forgotten about that. China still going strong too.

A half board 5 day holiday including the ferry crossing to Disneyland Paris for 4 people for £300. 2018. We stayed in a Disney hotel and had park access every day.

Sometimes things are bargains because you use them a lot, others because they are cheap in price. Hopefully both.

Some notables :

Columbia ski jacket/fleece still going strong after 20+ years. I think the jacket is good because I never machine wash it, always just rinse and hang out to dry. I use it for any outdoor stuff.

Berghaus walking boots, 20 years +.

Samsonite leather travel bag for pc etc. The older stuff pretty much indestructable. Newer stuff a lot less good.

Any EREM tools. Any cutting tools always buy the best, makes a lot of difference.

Playstation 3. Paid £120 for that in 2012 and its lasted years.

Ford Focus car. Cheap to run, reliable, much lower cost and more reliable than the previous Audi I had.

Nest of 3 solid oak mini tables off hot uk deals for £80 new.

Sony Noise Cancelling Headphones. No price you can put on silence.

Bloody hell how on earth did you manage that? Brilliant bargain!!

@ShaunaTheSheep it isn't the Gordon Ramsay collection, it's plain white with a silver band. Very elegant. For the £8 I have 16 place settings 🎉

Ooh, sounds lovely.

I bought an Ercol table on eBay for £75. It was in a dark stain so my dad stripped it back for us. Used it for a few years then sold it on for £100!
It was replaced with a vintage G Plan extending table that someone was giving away. Just cost us a £5 for them to deliver it to us. Looked online and they sell for £2-300!

An Alexander McQueen skull scarf and two pairs of cos wool cropped trousers for £1 in total at a car boot sale. I sold the trousers on eBay as they weren't my size but still wear the scarf today.

Just bought a Ralph Lauren dress from T K Max for £79. It's still available on the Ralph Lauren website, £212 reduced from £265!

I just bought an All Saints leather jacket for £12 from a local charity shop. It’s beautiful and buttery soft 😍

I love a bargain and I've had loads over the years.
Some that spring to mind are:

My house. We put in a low offer, which was accepted, only to find out by accident that it was up for auction in London. DH went down and bought it for 20K under the price we offered.

My amazing dolls house, made from real miniature clay bricks with stained glass windows and beautiful dark wood winding staircases. 99p on eBay, mainly due to the size and weight, I think. It was a palaver fetching it.

My 1920s recovered William Morris-like velvet sofa and chairs, which were up for auction locally, just after Xmas. It was snowy and icy, so fewer people than usual attended, plus they were covered up by rather nasty green stretch covers, so I got them for under £100.

Early 80s, a pair of French ski pant trousers originally £75, for £10 in a smart shop. Black with a dark red and blue rococo pattern This was just before ski pants came into fashion - the brand was ahead of its time - I wore them for years.

A few years later, a pair of wonderful quality suède effect leggings marked as size 16 that were really size 10, as I was then (now they'd be really size 6...). Reduced to about 1/6 original price. They were also just ahead of the fashion so I wore them for yet more years.

Recently a Paul Smith indigo wool jacket, originally £500, for £120 in a super-sale.

Some of these are amazing!

I bought a pair of 7 for all mankind jeans last year for £1.

My eyes.

Financially it wasn't a bargain - £8,000 to have both of my natural lenses removed and replaced with artificial ones. But in terms of getting my life back (DVLA was considering taking my licence) and the joy of being able to see perfectly for the first time ever - I'd consider it a bargain at twice the price.

A handbag for £2 in a charity shop.
I found £150 in an inside pocket.
No, I didn't donate the money back to the shop. My husband had been made redundant several weeks earlier and it put food in my kids bellies!

Best bargain I ever got was a weeks holiday to Turkey in october half term, 2 adults 2c all inclusive 5* for £925.
Turkey was on the red travel list, that's why it was so cheap, I booked it taking a gamble that it would make it to the green list as the COVID rates came down, and jet 2 were offering full refunds if it stayed red. It went green a couple of weeks before departure and we had an amazing time.

Ralph Lauren summer jacket - £6
Numerous Ralph Lauren polo shirts - £2 to £5
Calf length cashmere and wool winter coat - £5
Reiss jumper - £6
Nike Air Huraches - £2
Swarovski ring - 50p

My car was £1500 and was already 8 years old when I got it but it had only done 25k miles. It's still going strong, has cost nothing in repairs and I'll only get rid of her once she dies completely. I hope this isn't tempting fate.