What is your best charity/goodwill shop purchase?

Answer 1

Some awesome, awesome retro hair bows and junk jewlry! Real cheap too!
Oh and mom once got this vase for 7 bucks and its worth over 100!
I like charity shops ^_^

Answer 2

My Express jeans. It was the first pair of jeans that I have ever found that really fit me. Not settling because it was better than nohting. Not only that, but I paid full price for them. The Goodwills at which I used to shop in Columbus, OH, had (have? I've not been there since July of last year) discount colors. Every item of clothing had a different color plastic string on them (like in first run retail stores that hold the price tag.) Well, every week, one color would be 50% off and the other, 75% off. Usually, even when I was looking for something I literally needed, I would look at the discount colors, especially the 75% colors. Well, this pair was $4 "full price" Since I literally had no jeans that fit (they were all too big, as I lost weight) and these were as close to perfect as what I have ever found in anything, I couldn't not pass them up. They were too long, on my six foot tall body (they were also loose, so that helped), and they looked good in my hips and waist too.

I don't buy much into buying something materalistic can make one happy, but something about finding the jeans, a bright spot in a bad period I was going through. As though, if I could find one good thing, even if it was "just" a pair of jeans, then the rest of my life could get better too. It was as though, no, God was talking to me. (It was about that time that my husband's and my marriage started to get better. We started to go from roommates back to being husband and wife. We're still strong.)

Because I have been slow to show with my pregnancy, and because they are low cut, I was able to wear them to the end to the middle of my fourth month. (Then it didn't take me long to grow out of my 14s. Go figure.)

I also found some Tshirts at Goodwill (one Gap, one Old Navy) last summer for $.50 each. They're too small now, so i'll just sell them in my rummage sale for the same price.

The BEST find, though, is a tube dress (I think that's what it's calle; It's tight fitting and curve hugging). It's black with a wide neck and short sleeves. I found it in a soroity Dumpster at Ohio University, where my husbnad went to college. Not only is it nice and stretchy, I wore it when I was a 14 and I figure I can wear it though most of my pregnancy; I'm taking it to NYC with me as it folds small and doesn't wrinkle, but I get compliments on it every time I wear it. Gotta love that.

With great finds like this, I can't imagine NOT shopping second hand and I don't even shop first-run stores. I don't find it economically, socially, and enviromentally friendly.

Heck, I think I've even conviced my clothes obessed, mall obsessed sister-in-law to shop at Goodwill, now. She complained that she doesn't like Wal-Mart because (according to her, and I agree) they use sweatshops. I told her that's one of the reasons I don't shop first hand-- I don't know how the clothes were made. The othe evening at dinner my MIL told me that she found some stuff there for a dollar each and I commented that I didn't think she would ever shop there. Even my husband, her brother, was surprised.

Answer 3

Oh I bought a black and white spotty dress about 3 years ago in a charity shop that's so cool! It has a kind of loose top half and then a more fitted bottom half,its hard to describe but its so brilliant! And it was about 5 euro I think.

Answer 4

Ummm, I guess I would have to say Goodwill

Answer 5

vintage14kt gold heart shaped brooch for $5.00
solid 14kt.gold antique wristwatch for $1.00
perfect mink coat for $ 75.00