Charity Shopping

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Something I’ve really missed during the present unpleasantness has been Charity Shopping.

Our family loves a good Charity Shop, Middlesister even volunteers in one. She and Bigsister trawl all the ones on Finchley High Street when she visits. Between Christmas and New Year Thunderthighs and I trawl all the ones on Shields Road Byker for next year’s cards at half price.  It’s become a tradition, he even asks which day we’re going to do it.

Charity Shopping fulfils a number of desires and requirements: recycling, parsimony, thrift and the need to do some good.   

Some of our most loved items of clothing came from a charity shop.  They’re also an excellent source of reading material and Ferretfingers immediately homes in on the DVDs and board games.

We also donate all our old worn out clothes and shoes to the charity shop for the ‘rag man’.   When none of us were allowed to go to ‘un-necessary’ shops a good half a dozen bags of stuff sat in the hall waiting to be taken up.

Every now and then I donate and item of clothing that I really don’t like, or bought by mistake, probably from a charity shop.  Unless a friend wants to read it, most books I finish go back as donations.

£1 coat has lasted years

When the un-necessary shops reopened I made up for lost time 

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14/5/21

Went up the village yesterday to buy a birthday card and came home with: 3 birthday cards, 2 balls of wool, a pretty little black chemise style vest, a pendant, about twenty Christmas coloured/scented tea lights, a blue&white plate for the delft rack and a nice big backpack (because you always need a spare).  

Total spent in St Oswalds Hospice Shop £11.  

Two of the cards came from the Post Office.  

I'm going to have to have a little rearrangement of the delft rack ...

15/5/21

Went up the village again yesterday as I had a birthday present to post and couldn't resist another rake around St Oswald's hospice shop.  Came away with:-

A lovely little colourful roll-up shopping bag with pop-fastening envelope, colourful means it's far easier to find inside a handbag (why do they always have black linings?),  

A birthday card for the stash, 

Some red Christmas candles, 

And 2 one pint John Smith beer glasses for the boys to have their water in at mealtimes.   

I thought Thunderthighs would demur at drinking water out of a branded beer glass, but he was ok.