Hitting the Sales - Again!

Despite the weather being best suited to those with webbed feet, I decided to head down to Basildon this morning - just to check out the final reductions in the sales, have a mooch around the charity shops and pop into the Friday morning 'Bargain Box.'  I managed to find some good bargains but, for the sake of my finances, I think it's just as well that Arctic weather seems to be set to make a reappearance over the UK again next week.  Being stuck in the house may get a tad wearing at times but, my goodness me, it does help save money!!

Anyways, at the church 'Bargain Box' I got this cheerful pillowcase and a ball of dishcloth cotton for 50p.  I'm not sure if the pillowcase will end up as a pillowcase tote or if I'll actually use it.  As for the dishcloth cotton - well, having discovered how wonderful it is to use hand-knitted dishcloths to do the washing up, I'm always on the lookout for more cotton to knit them with.

As I was passing their door, I also popped in to Boots in the town centre. The Basildon branch of Boots is h-u-g-e and they had a different selection of 75% off items than they had in the (minute in comparison) Wickford branch. 

I bought this gorgeous Celia Birtwell Coin Purse and Key Fob boxed set for £2.50 instead of £10.00 - that'll be destined for ebay at some point although I must say I do rather like the coin purse.  It'd be very stylish to use it for my small change when I go car booting next summer.  In Basildon they also had a good selection of chocolates at 75% off so I bought a box of Belgian Chocolated for £1.50 instead of £6.00 (probably a nice treat for us for the weekend!) and, also for £1.50 instead of £6.00, a box of White Chocolate Truffles.  I'm going to keep those to give to P on Valentine's Day - he does dearly love a white chocolate.  We don't really 'do' Valentine's Day beyond giving each other a card so these will be a nice little bonus for him.

I then popped across the road to Primark where I managed to get another pair of Cath Kidston-esque pyjamas for my sister.  (S, hope you like the cream colour as much as the grey.)  I'll post those to her on Monday and they should arrive in time for round two of the big chill.

In another charity shop I found these two brand new Designer's Guild Oxford pillowcases for £1.25 each.  These are destined for ebay and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they'll make a decent profit.

Finally, I had a quick look in Evans to see what their reductions were like.  I found two quite similar summer T-shirts for myself which were down from the original price of £23.00 each to £5.00 each!!  No way would I have ever paid £23.00 for either of them but at a fiver each I was well pleased.  I also found an Evans winter jumper in a charity shop for £2.00 but that's currently spinning around in the washing machine.  If it looks good on then it will have been a great bargain, if not - oh well, it can go in the next charity sack.

Comments

[Ilona]

Some good finds there, love the colours of the teeshirts, your shop must be bulging. I hope you get some good prices for them.

[Jennifer]

What great finds, hope you are able to turn a good profit on your ebay sales.

[Barbara]

What great bargins, I,m envious but not of the weather. Although summer here, it is appalling, rainy almost cold weather.

[Sarah]

Dear Liz,

Thank you so much for getting me another pair of the very stylish and extremely warm pyjamas from Primark. I love the white too. I've got my grey pair all ready to wear tonight and know that me, J and a certain white and brown Maine Coon will be very cosy in bed tonight. J said that he thought my head looked a bit odd when he came to bed last night and then realised it was Isabella sound asleep on my pillow! I didn't even notice!!

Thanks again - a lovely surprise.

With love from Sarah

[Frugal Trenches]

That pillow case is absolutely fabulous! You are just so good at finding bargains! I wish we could charity shop together :)