How cheap or expensive are the charity shops in your area?

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The charity shops in my local area are cheap as chips. For example a top shop blouse will set you back no more than around the £4 mark compared to Edinburgh where it would cost £10.

I’ve given up locally and buy from Vinted now.

Super cheap
This week I've bought Lucy & yak dungarees £8 , a beautiful cashmere waistcoat £6 , and a st Michael trench coat £2 . I left a vintage top shop wool duffle coat which was £5 .

I gave up on charity shops the day that I looked at a pretty beaded purse (marked 'vintage') and found the Matalan label inside... Bloody chancers!

Over the last 6 months they’ve got extremely expensive.

I like to buy secondhand for sustainability reasons rather than because I want a bargain. But I do expect to pay less than what the item would have been new.

Last week the racks were full of items from Missguided and Pretty Little Thing for £10 a piece, they probably cost less than that new.

Saw two items I would have brought if they were priced differently; a H&M dress which was £15 and a pair of worn Birkenstocks for £40

It's a mixed bag where I live on the Bucks/Berks border. My nearest is very reasonable - brand new M&S men's cashmere jumper for £3.95 this week. But if I head into Marlow they can be a bit too pricey. Henley is surprisingly not too bad - good labels for medium prices. Oxford is on the pricier side in the touristy areas. High Wycombe and Princes Risborough very reasonable, but High Wycombe in particular often has a lot of low quality stuff. My favourite is a one off local charity shop in a small village and it is very cheap and has a massive stock turnover.

Not bought but tried on a Hush NWT cotton top that would have cost £4.99. A NWT Nobody’s Child blouse for £6.99 and a long quilted Barbour jacket for £15 that’s several sizes too large but will be good for layering.

Dirt cheap where I am but then it's full of crap. Primark, supermarket stuff that wouldn't cost lots more to buy new. I shop (and sell) a lot on Vinted now

I think it’s very shop dependant locally. The cancer research shop is expensive for what it is. There’s a brilliant thrift store for local charities which is cheap and stock turnover is high. I’ll be honest and say I buy most of my clothes from Vinted. Cashmere/ merino jumpers from charity shop. I got a brand new boden dress with tags for a tenner.

I'm in London. Two in my local parade of shops are normal prices, one is a joke (Primark tops more expensive than they are in Primark) but my favourites are the charity shops in "the village" (super posh) where I got a Paul Smith dress for £20 and a brand new pair or Reiss trousers for £15.

Expensive but full of crap. I don’t shop in them anymore. Why would I pay £7 for a used Primark top that probably cost less than a tenner brand new?

There are some really expensive charity shops in some neighbouring areas of London, but they sell designer clothes so it’s still a bargain if you’re after that sort of thing.

Expensive but definitely worth it. All my clothes are from charity shops.

I used to shop in them in the 90s. T shirts were 10p, grandad shirts about 20p.
Paired with jeans everyday, it was so easy.
But good quality stuff.
I can't bear them now, more expensive than the sale in Tu or Asda, but less quality.

There’s loads in our town and only 2 of them I’d say were ‘charity shop’ prices now.
i bought an M&S trench coat from one of the more expensive ones for £19 the other day because it fits/suits well and is obviously cheaper than in the store, but I think that’s still expensive for a charity shop.
I also saw a ‘mother of the bride’ style dress on a mannequin with matching hat for £200 today!! No doubt it would have been an expensive brand but for that you’d might as well go brand new and get the exact style/colour you wanted.

In the town where I live there's an independent charity shop that's really cheap. Neighbouring small towns, also cheap. There's a national park close by and everything is much more expensive (£2 vs. 50p for a paperback book, for example) but there's also much more choice of good quality second hand clothing and sports kit.

I bought 3 fiction paperbacks for £1 yesterday: usual price is 4 for a quid. I thought outrageiously good bargain.

Pretty mixed. My favourite is usually fair, lots for £3-£6 per item but they're not daft and something from a good brand that's clearly brand new with tags will be priced higher appropriately (up to £20 or £30 depending on the item and brand).

Pretty affluent area so there's more Joules / Boden / M&S / Hobbs / White Company to be found than there is Shein and Primark.

Mixed. I am in the South East in a pretty seaside town and prices in the local charity shops have kept going up over the past couple of years.

One of them has in its windows small Moroccan tables for £150 each.

Seems they are branching into selling higher priced vintage items and antiques...

Very little for under £10 these days.

London - not cheap at all. Zara dresses -£18, worn to death leather jackets - £35, designer clothes are priced in 100s sometimes.

South East here. Not cheap - although varies shop to shop.

Oxfam sell paperbacks for £2.50 each. Not Cheap!

Got a white stuff top yesterday looked like new for £6 which I though was good.

East top that clearly was not new for £8. Not really a bargain but I like the style /shape so am pleased I got it.

lol must be same side window of £££ I saw earlier this morning!
They had small paintings for 300 etc
Surely better to sell them at auction to raise money for their charity.
Other one I saw this morning had a designer window , which had items such as Barbour , Karen Mullen , Whistles etc which were pricey but a fraction of the cost originally.

Top of the South West here, charity shops are still cheap but there's a pretty dire selection. I don't bother looking anymore, I loved a good charity shop rummage when I lived in the South East. I used to get really good quality and designer items quite regularly, here its all Primark or Marks if you're lucky.

Tops start at £6, dresses about £10 - £15 upwards (more if its a more expensive brand), kids clothes start at £2 - £3 for e.g. a t-shirt. I don't know if this is expensive or not for a charity shop nowadays but its no longer cheap enough for me to buy things on a whim. A pine chest of drawers was about £60 - £80 (I needed a cheap stop gap for my son's room - went to IKEA in the end). I shop on Vinted now because its both easier to find the sort of thing I'm looking for in my size and is often cheaper (particularly kids clothes if I bundle). Wedding dresses are cheap though (I wasn't shopping for one I heard them discussing how to price them), they started at £50 for brand new ones!

Way overpriced. I'm not going to spend £5 on a primark top that was £3 to start with. SE London. We have a couple of 'fancy' charity shops that are more expensive but worth it.

SE/SW London area. Some are cheap but there’s quite a few that definitely eye up the pricier items and sell for a profit. Or if they’re “labels”.

Mixed but mainly expensive crap.