Charity Shop Favourite Find
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I just wondered what people's favourite charity shop find was..
I visit charity shops on my walk from work on the other side of Sheffield & found that beautiful butterfly skirt...
I know my daughter would love it so bought it her, I paid £6 for the skirt which is made of silky material & lined too with a pocket each side.
It's a vintage Ted Baker skirt
That skirt is absolutely gorgeous and definitely a bargain for a Ted Baker. Our best charity shop find was a large Little Tikes race car toy for our son, cost us £3. I always look in the charity shops when I'm in town but don't always find anything.
MrsCraig .... 
Found this beautiful dress in the same shop for £6..
I know it's from Next as I bought exactly the sane dress from Next Clearance in 2019 for a bargain £4..
I wore the dress to my 32 year old Nephew Damian's funeral 15th May 2019 with a red pair of Sandals from Diechmann & a nice red handbag as red was Damo's favourite colour. .
The money I saved from my outfit I donated to MIND in his memory..
9 days later on 24th May it was my 54th birthday & as part of my presents my partner gave me a £70 Gift Card to buy a new dress...
I still have my Gift Card, it's been renewed for 5 years now.
I still have my £4 Next Clearance dress, sooo lovely, so comfortable to wear, material isn't thin & a longer length for this now 59 year old !
MrsCraig ...My Niece gets all her 3 year old son's Little Tikes toys free, she is sent them then writes a review with a photo of him playing with the toy.
janphoenix51 beautiful dress and another excellent bargain. Oh now that is very cool, bet her 3 year old loves getting free toys.
MrsCraig ... 
You will find my Great Nephew T.
on Very & Little Tikes Web Sites & probably others too..x
Yes I'm sure my Great Nephew loves his free toys, hopefully when he tires of them his Mummy will pass them on to a group who can use them..
I passed our daughter's wheeled toys on to her play group as she never used them, they were like new & I thought rather than pass on to a charity shop where a family might use I would pass on to a group she uses...As soon as I did this she started riding around the hall where the play group was held on her old toys with her cousin & friends!
janphoenix51 aww he is adorable. My sons nursery has that toy, it is my sons favourite. Yes I will be passing on my sons toys to his nursery and the local free play cafe.
I bought a tailored thick black jacket for a funeral. I found it in age UK for £14. It was a Debenhams label but such good quality I love it and wear it often out and about. I’m sure it would have been a lot more new.
JLouM...Well done on your find, recycling at it's best!
My Student Radiographer Daughter was working at Bradford Broadway Oxfam last year as part of her Uni Placement & found a red Zara Jacket for £5, at the end of the day no one had bought it so she asked if she could & did..
Daughter ISN'T in to designer or red but liked the jacket so bought it..
I found a lovely XL Zara Jacket in a Charity Shop for £25 the other day, didn't buy it as it would bury me & it was bright but a nice Jacket, don't know if I would pay that for it though! X
janphoenix51 Yes some are better than others for finds. Need to know where to look. My sister finds a lot more as she is smaller size. I’m more the larger size and not quite as much choice.
Two purchases I thought were very good. One was from the St Margaret Hospice charity shop in Yeovil. It was a little 19" combi TV with built in DVD player for £6, it included a bag of cables and other bits which weren't directly related to the TV like a satellite signal finder and additional cables and I sold the bits on for about £20 and still use the TV today, its a lovely little set. The only annoying thing is I've never managed to find a code so it will play multi-region dvds. It's such a useful set though as it has so many connections including scart, component, VGA, hdmi, s-video etc and will accept up 1080p signals despite being a 720p panel.
The other thing I bought from the PDSA charity shop in Taunton. It was a all in one PC with a Athlon A4-5000 chipset, I think a 20" screen, It came with 4GB but expanded it to 8GB for only £1.50 thanks to CEX. I installed Windows 11 and used it for a while before selling it on. I think it cost £12. It came with a 1TB hard drive but I swopped that out for a 128GB SSD that cost £8. It was a quad core processor and had decent AMD graphics so did actually run quite a lot of games just not the latest games. It came with a mouse but not keyboard so I had to buy one of those. The display quality was very good though, lovely bright image and sound was decent. I think I spent about £25 in total on it and sold it for over 3x that once I got bored of it. It was faster than many £200 laptops you get in Currys even today. I think such all in one PCs can be easily confused with a monitor for some people so I always check the rear of monitors to make sure they aren't actually all in one PCs and on this occasion it was.
Someone I know got the full collection brand new still in original packaging Horrible Histories books. She looked online and they were going for £80/£90 and she paid £5
Our daughters love going into the charity shops in Chelmsford buying x box games and CDs and some clothing too
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