Today in the local YMCA charadee shop, a very nice looking Pearl drum kit. £250. 😯
My wife, she's a manager for oxfam and that day changed my life forever.
A 1994 Kona Cindercone (All original except, weirdly, powder-coated deep met purple with no decals. I spotted the 'K' on the seat collar)
And a copy of 'The Old Straight Track' by Alfred Watkins
The dildo I bought for my girlfriend.
I found a lovely Yamaha SG selling for £50-I picked it up just because it was nice, cleaned it up a bit, then a while later decided to sell it and found out it was (at the time) worth about £750. I figured I'd go to hell if I didn't give them the profit from the sale 😆
The dildo I bought for my girlfriend.
From a charity shop?
Tight ****. Pardon the pun.
From a charity shop?Tight ****. Pardon the pun.
Your wifes loss was my gain 😉
95 lava dome. Great condition. I walked past it on the way to work. Thought I'd pop back at lunch and buy it. 30 mins later a scally walks in with it (worked at a bike shop).
The dildo I bought for my girlfriend.
You must be gutted - You bought her something nice and the next time you see it its in a charity shop? You should dump her, she doesn't appreciate you, not like I do.
Rula Lenska, although not as young as she was, who is. Richmond oxfam i think. Probably gone now
Rula Lenska, although not as young as she was, who is. Richmond oxfam i think. Probably gone now
she lives in chiswick, both are still there afaik
A tramp biting a dog.
Funny this thread came up today!
I went charity shop shopping today for some trousers and overheard a conversation of the people that worked there about some fancy women's shoes that had just come in with some red soles... turns out they were a pair of unused, boxed genuine Christian Leboutin shoes, flipping bargain present for my girlfriend. £50 for a £600 pair of shoes!
I also once found an old Leica M7 and lens (don't remember the exact model of the lens) in a car boot sale in Canada which I bought for $20, sold it for £900 back in London!
From a charity shop?
Tight ****. Pardon the pun.
She's not tight anymore after a few vigorous sessions with said bargain.
One buying experience comes to mind in a retro clothing section upstairs in a Salvation army shop mid 90's in Wolverhampton. There was a rubber dress hanging on the wall. I don't remember it specifically but I do remember the giggling by the staff when it was purchased by the old boy in front of me in the queue to the till.
Quite certain either Pam or his other half had some fun that evening.
She's not tight anymore after a few vigorous sessions with said bargain.
Sshh, don't let coconut know we've all been there before him.
Your wifes loss was my gain
Proper LOL!
My wife is the same age as me. 60.
Carry on as though you were normal ya drip.
Don't mention my wife again in any derogatory sense please.
I worked for oxfam and found a damaged hardback book in the "unsaleable, for recycling" bin. The covers were leather over wood, it was a collection of British railway maps. Sold for £1200.
I walk past the Marylebone Cancer Research charity shop on occasion. They've twigged on the whole designer clothes thing but haven't got it quite right in terms of pricing - I've seen a Neil Barrett leather jacket in the window for £900 and a dated Gucci suit for £500. Our local charity shop (Cat protection or something) has a similarly hopeful pricing strategy, but on more mundane clothes - £10-15 for used M&S shirts for example.
Best thing I've ever bought - probably a mid-century unsigned oil+pastel landscape. No idea of its financial value but it's been proudly on the wall ever since.
^^
We have similar pricey hopefullness round here.
Primark t shirts for £3. They cost £2.50 from Primark.
DrP
My wife spotted a Hotrock 24 for £40. Had a flat tyre and had never been cleaned. Looked like it had been ridden until it got the flat and was then given away. An hour cleaning the drivetrain and a tune up and not a thing wrong with it, win!
Definitely not a "charity shop" - but half way up Leith Walk there used to be a wee shop selling all sorts of stuff from second hand guitars to army surplus stuff. I spotted a tent in a clean looking stuff sack - "27 quid, we had to nick it oorsells to sell it fur that". I took it at face value, turned out it was a brand new North Face VE25, at the time retailing for over 400. Best tent i've ever had, 12 years of use before I let it go in a divorce settlement!
most of my work clothes and shoes are from charity shops!
Also a couple of bits of smaller furniture, cycling kit and loads of great books and CD's if you can stand wading through multiple copies of Clarkson, Robbie Williams etc. All my Iain (without the 'M) Banks books save 'the quarry' are from charity shops for example. Last fave CD was 'selection sixteen' by squarepusher.
Wanted a paperweight and spotted a resin block and that would be ideal.
For a quid I picked up a resin block with the first drip of crude oil from a cable tensioned oil rig in in the north sea. Found out its worth about 100 quid and is not stuck in a display case.
Just using a stone as paperweight now.
The one on the left.
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I was on the Hutton TLP (Temple of leasure and pleasure)when they decommissioned it in 2002. Probably the best job I've ever had.
Wanted a paperweight
Keep on dreaming big! 🙂
For a quid I picked up a resin block with the first drip of crude oil from a cable tensioned oil rig in in the north sea. Found out its worth about 100 quid and is not stuck in a display case.Just using a stone as paperweight now.
My dad brought a load of those (or something similar) home when he worked at BP Exploration.
Spoted a Korg synthesiser for £5 in a canal charityshop in the middle of nowhere (at the end of a canal).
Pointed out to the assistant that it was worth nearer £200 and probably belonged on ebay not the childs toy section.
Dinner Jacket for the christmas doo last year £1 (missing a cuff button).
Black suit for a funeral £15.
I've had the same grey wool suit for going on 12 years, tough as old boots, fits well and cost me £10.
Wanted a paperweight...
"Keep on dreaming big! "
Aiming high, you see 😉
Björk!
Mrs IRC picked up a gents Balenciaga leather jacket in as new condition for £4. Too small for me but fitted our son.
Best tent i've ever had, 12 years of use before I let it go in a divorce settlement!
Still, at least you got the house...
For a quid I picked up a resin block with the first drip of crude oil from a cable tensioned oil rig in in the north sea. Found out its worth about 100 quid and is not stuck in a display case.
Just using a stone as paperweight now.
My dad brought a load of those (or something similar) home when he worked at BP Exploration.
So did my dad, from when he worked for Conoco. I remember one from the Hutton and one from the Murchison. Wonder if he's still got them.
My wife is the same age as me. 60.Carry on as though you were normal ya drip
60.. cruzin the charity shops.. livin life on the edge hey 😀
Not a charity shop but spotted an old motorbike helmet in an antique shop in Matlock Bath.
Couple of Old BMW stickers either side which got me at first (ride a BMW), but on closer inspection turned out to be a Griffin Clubman from the 70s.
Stuck it on eBay and bidding war between a guy in Japan and a English bloke living in Switzerland. English bloke won it for £200, had it shipped to a restorer in the U.K. where he had it completely stripped and rebuilt/painted before shipping it to Switzerland.
As it was an antique shop I didn't feel bad for diddling the out of £180.
A hand cranked Singer sewing machine in unused condition. Heavy as an anvil, deep black enamel and perfect gold stencils.
Lugged it home proudly to show the wife. "I've got one like that in the attic" she says - it was her granny's.
Still she can't complain when I use mine to sew leather now, can she? 🙂
A "Monarch of the Glen" print by Landseer - common enough but it was in what I now know to have been an 18th Century Italian gilt frame. Took a photo (it looked special) and sent it to a few mates with better knowledge than me. Ran back to buy it for a tenner and it had gone 😳
There's a wonderful Neil Gaiman story, [url= https://creativewrighting2014.wikispaces.com/file/view/chivalry1.pdf ]Chivalry[/url], about a lonely elderly lady who buys the Holy Grail from the Oxfam shop. 🙂
My favourite find so far is a 1953 Buck & Hickman tool catalogue. Beautiful thing...
The bloke behind the till was so happy to see it go to a proper tool hound like me. He'd already chased 2 d*ckheads who just wanted to cut it up and eBay the images...
Edit: £5 well spent
Second favourite now that I think about it is a pair of Troll walking trousers for £3...
I also once found an old Leica M7 and lens (don't remember the exact model of the lens) in a car boot sale in Canada which I bought for $20, sold it for £900 back in London!
An M7 is hardly "an old Leica" though, considering it's still available to buy new.
If anyone is interested, Foal Farm Animal Rescue (Biggin Hill, Kent) had an Avenir Mule cycle trailer sat outside its on-site charity shop on Saturday morning. The waterproof cover is missing and there's a slight tear on one side, but it looks to be in good condition otherwise.
No idea what price they are hoping to get for it as I was there before the shop opens.
Frank Thomas leather jacket probably a crusader type one, £15. Still wear it on the bike now.
For a quid I picked up a resin block with the first drip of crude oil from a cable tensioned oil rig in in the north sea. Found out its worth about 100 quid and is not stuck in a display case.
I've got a pair of them, parents got them in the 70's. Last time I checked they weren't worth much. And just checked eBay where they're selling for about £20 🙂
A game of Twister and a 'Fifty Shades of Grey' paperback.