Is it just ,e or is anyone else finding ridiculously cheap charity shop clothes lately?

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I love charity shops, and find the browsing quite mindful, this past month the things I've found have been amazing. Not high end designer or anything but just lovely things really cheap.
This week alone I've found a navy wool folk jumper and silk shirt in a random rummage box 5 items for a pound, also on a £1 sale rail Tommy hilfigir baggies, Animal skirt, whitestuff cropped jeans.

At different shop I found Zara jumper , Uniqlo wool cardigan and Cambridge shirt company checked shirt - total £2.50 . They look un worn . It just looks like charity shops are really needing to shift stock.

I don't live in a posh area btw . Anyone else ?

It is very area dependant.

I could literally travel to the best suburbs in the closest city for designer stuff. Though many shops shift stuff around different stores they do get a lot of local donations. I volunteer doing the window displays in a shop that’s in the closest town to where I live. It’s quite a deprived area so we just don’t get really expensive brands .

In the 9 months I have worked there I have seen hardly anything that’s a decent brand. I did donate a pair of Ralph Lauren trousers. I had bought them in a charity shop myself for a fiver but they didn’t fit DH. As they were BNWT my shop put them on for £40 which I said was ridiculous but they have to price to their National pricing policy which I vehemently disagree with.

My best buy ever was a Country Casuals dress for a tenner and an LK Bennett top BNWT for £3, also a BNWT M&S body warmer for a tenner that was originally £75. But best overall was a Calvin Klein summer dress for a pound.

@Niftythrifter £10 for Brora is a bargain I'd be happy to pay. The most common brands I find are whitestuff, fatface, occasionally Toast, per Una, woolovers and vintage stuff, suits me it's what I like to wear .

I agree that the appeal of Vinted is that someone actually wants it and you feel it’s more a case of matching something someone doesn’t want with the person who does want it and the money making side is almost a bonus!

I'm a big Vinted fan I sell on my charity shop buys that don't fit or I'm tired of. Because they didn't cost me much I'm happy to get a small amount and it helps out someone else . After a month of Vinted it goes back to the charity shop.

@triggers34 I can forgive you now because I just got some really high end fabric to make a coat with from my local Oxfam for £5 (would be usually £150).

I can now be happy for you

I think they swap the stuff about shops so everybody gets a fair crack of the whip .

Total opposite in my area. 🙁

Our local charity shop doesn't sell Jewellery any more . It has to go to a centre where they grade it and put it on eBay . Also they stopped selling make up, perfume and toiletries for some reason .

I can still get some good clothing items for £1 but I guess the best of that will soon go up on vinted .

All it seems to sell now is toys , books and bric a brac .

I think the days of getting an absolute bargain for next to nothing are over . I guess they have to get the Max to make the charity pay

@nobodysdaughternow brilliant find and I'm envious of your sewing skills. I have got my eye on a homemade dress in friends of the animals it was £12 , decent fabric Toast style dress . If it's still calling me I'll have to go back in the week and see if it's still there!

I've noticed the opposite recently - prices going up and quality going down. I was in one the other day and found a well worn F&F tesco tshirt selling for £5.75.

Anything half nice is £15+ here in London.

There’s a charity shop near me that sells primark and supermarket dresses that are well worn for pretty much what they’d have cost brand new. It’s not an affluent area and although I take lots of donations in I’ve never bought a thing!

I love charity shop shopping, I reckon about 60% or more of my wardrobe is second hand but I’m not paying £12 for a tired Tu frock

I have been on a Vinted binge recently as I realised I didn’t have much in the way of shorts and skirts that fitted well. I’ve just totted it up - £55 total for 15 items (!) - picked from a huge variety, delivered to my door, working out at £3.60 each. When a tired-looking skirt was £5 in my local charity shop this weekend it’s a no brainer.

Also, this binge was prompted by walking round Sainsburys clothing sections carrying two pairs of extremely mediocre shorts and realising they would be £31 in total. And then thinking “but I can get basically exactly the same thing on Vinted for much less, and I’m being green by recycling clothes!”

No Quite the opposite here They're really taking the piss eg £12.99 for a dress when I bought similarly for £3.50 a couple of years ago

I agree, OP.

This afternoon I bought a pair of Lululemon leggings and a Fabletics pair for £4 each, and a Joseph cream cotton shift style dress for £5 in charity shops

I popped in today and a Topshop dress (black label so not modern Topshop) was nearly £13. I think that some shops are placing some high street labels right at the top of the price structure. Recently someone was very vocal in the same shop about the price of something from H&M.

If anyone likes Zara then head to your local British Red Cross shop as they get corporate donations from the group that own Zara. I picked up a nice little summer dress from there recently for around £15.

My local ones are great. I don't live in a nice area.
You need to rummage but can find things that are niche for next to nothing, in a sea of shein, boohoo and primark

Near me it's all Matalan and Shein too. Envious!

I'm finding it the same as mistake people here... expensive crap mainly.
I've been very lucky in the past but not now.
British Heart Foundation is the worst... for price and quality.

British Heart foundation in West Sussex seem to have a job lot of items that are new and pricey.

No not here. I asked the price of something and the woman got a book out where they had a list of all brands and the price it should sell for. Told me the item was £10. It was just a bog standard brand and not new.
Last time I went in my local BHF to look at a dress that had caught my eye, it was £20!!! Second hand think it was something like Seasalt and when I had a close look far too heavy and very stiff material. I agree that you can get brand new stuff in the sales cheaper.

I must admit my bargains are from local charity's not the big names and agreed BHF are the worst . I don't know how they can survive , people must pay the high prices .

I love a charity shop and am lucky that we've got some good ones locally. I'm very selective about what I buy - I don't buy Primark, Tu or F&F for example. That said, I was in a local one this week and got a Roman crepe vest top, Cotton Traders vest top and a pair of viscose printed trousers from George. Together with two birthday cards the whole lot cost £11.

I also got DH a brand new Van Heusen shirt which still had the plastic packaging round the neck and the label on and some M&S pyjamas for me which also still had the label on in our village charity shop so have been quite pleased with my haul this week.

Favourite buy over the last couple of weeks though has to be an Onjenu dress in perfect condition for £6 which would be around £90 new.