What's your best charity shop find?

Hello thrifty folk of TSR :smile:

Today I found this

FCUK dress in the Cancer Research shop for 7 pounds; the website said it should have been £115!

This has inspired me to make this thread. :biggrin:

What's the best thing you've ever found in a charity or second-hand shop?

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Reply 1

HumiT

A leather handbag made in Italy for £3.

Reply 2

SeaJay

Original post by __IWalkTheLine

Hello thrifty folk of TSR :smile:

Today I found this

FCUK dress in the Cancer Research shop for 7 pounds; the website said it should have been £115!

This has inspired me to make this thread. :biggrin:

What's the best thing you've ever found in a charity or second-hand shop?

Brand new Hobbs winter coat £10. Or a gorgeous, black, Laura Ashley jacket £8

Nice dress!

Reply 3

Sadsnail

What charity shops do you go to?!?!?!

Reply 4

__IWalkTheLine

Original post by Sadsnail

What charity shops do you go to?!?!?!

Haha, you'd be surprised at the stuff you can find amongst all the tat. :biggrin:

Even when I used to go to ones not even in town or anything.

There's a few around Edinburgh that are quite good. The dress is from cancer research. :smile:

A burberry trench coat for £15

Reply 7

Tom.

A really great place to pick up women...

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 8

Steevee

I swear the only things in charity shops for men are XL :frown:

Reply 9

natalie122

Navy blue crombie with a mink collar for £25 :smile:

Reply 10

reynggj

Original post by kaylafrances

A burberry trench coat for £15

very beatuful

Reply 11

.Hannah

A BNWT Ted Baker dress for £10 should have been well over £100 I believe.

Reply 12

Smoosh

That dress is stunning!

I got a gorgeous River Island dress for £7, which I've had a lot of compliments on, that's pretty much the only time I've been in a charity shop to look for clothes though :tongue:

Might have a rummage around when I'm in town tomorrow :smile:

Reply 13

Kaykee93

I actually got my prom dress from a charity shop :tongue:

I think it was 100% silk or something, really great dress, got it for £25 :tongue:

(They were gonna sell it for like £90, but I was volunteering there on weekends, and my boss loved me :tongue:

)

Reply 14

ImSoIndieItHurts

Original post by kaylafrances

A burberry trench coat for £15

NO WAY?!?!?!?!?!!! WHERE?
I am literally like this: :zomg:

Reply 15

kaylafrances

Original post by ImSoIndieItHurts

NO WAY?!?!?!?!?!!! WHERE?
I am literally like this: :zomg:

hahaha a cancer research shop

Reply 16

satchef1

A bunch of TM Lewin shirts, sealed in TM Lewin packaging. £3 each.

Enough cedarwood shoe trees for my entire shoe collection, £4/pair (normally something like £40).

A Ted Baker suit, £9 (normally a couple of hundred quid, at least).

And my best one?

A Paul Smith blazer, probably worth 3 or 4 hundred quid, £15.

It's unbelievable that people have the sort of money where they don't mind taking that sort of stuff to the charity shop.

Reply 17

__IWalkTheLine

Original post by Kaykee93

I actually got my prom dress from a charity shop :tongue:

I think it was 100% silk or something, really great dress, got it for £25 :tongue:

(They were gonna sell it for like £90, but I was volunteering there on weekends, and my boss loved me :tongue:

)

I love hearing that people have bought things like prom dresses second hand! It's sort of just a given that people are going to spend ridiculous amounts of money on it - like me :sigh:

- so it's cool to hear that people have managed to pick up something nice, that no-one else will have, for a lot cheaper. :yes:

Reply 18

CoolaClime Student

Footy Shirts are my forte at the mo!

Reply 19

Jessticles

I did volunteer work in a charity shop before, and while I never found anything for myself, there were some amazing baby clothes that I got for my little cousin. A brand new GORGEOUS Ralph Lauren dress for her for €2... my god. I can't imagine that people actually throw stuff like that away when it's not even worn.

The women who worked there said that it happened quite a bit regularly before the recession hit and a lot of people obviously became much more careful with their money. I don't really shop in charity shops though, to be honest, just for me I don't like rooting, because I work in retail part-time and I don't enjoy shopping as much anymore.