This morning Mum and I went to a small High Street just a short bus ride away that we haven't been to for quite a long time (a few years at least). There are only three charity shops there and one of those is for the local hospice and is notoriously expensive. However, we did manage to find a few nice bits and pieces - a cardigan and jeans for Mum and these three items for me.
There's a vintage T G Green 'Kitchen Things' storage jar which was £1, a very floral 1970s vintage double sheet - £1, and a nicer-than-it-looks-in-the-photo damask table cloth - also £1.
The best charity shop there was one that is oddly situated at the back of a shoe-mender's shop. We weren't sure if it was still going as the back of the shop was dark, but when we asked the chap in the shoe menders about it he put the lights on for us and so we had the pleasure of poking about in an empty charity shop all by ourselves - wonderful. That is where the floral sheet and the table cloth came from, and also where Mum got herself the pair of jeans. I definitely think it's somewhere we'll be going back to on a more regular basis.
Kitchen Things is so sweet. It really is nice to thrift on your own isn't it? You can take your time and really look through things carefully. While I love our thrift stores, I miss charity shops too. Especially when I am looking for denby dishes.
Posted by: Selena | 09/15/2008 at 06:58 PM
Lovely bargains. Tell me it was Staple Hill because 22 years ago I bought some lovely green linen table napkins in a charity shop there and I'm still using them!
Posted by: Maureen | 09/16/2008 at 08:31 AM
I love the table cloth. I have a similar one in blue.
Posted by: Sharon J | 09/16/2008 at 12:26 PM
Fab sheet - great finds x
Posted by: Claire | 09/16/2008 at 04:49 PM
Oh I love the little kitchen things pot :)
Posted by: Frugal Trenches | 09/20/2008 at 10:26 AM