Oh, Dear!

I'm staying with my Mum in Bristol for a few days so this morning we went off to the nearest high street to have a good old mooch around the charity shops.  Oh, dear, the pickings were extremely slim - in my case virtually non-existent.  It wasn't just that all the clothes on the rails seemed to have come from Asda or Sainsbury's (and were probably cheaper to buy new than the prices they're asking for them in the charity shops,) it's that there really wasn't very much on the rails or shelves at all.  All the charity shops seemed eerily empty of stock.  I'm guessing it's a sign of the economic times - although I've not noticed such a dearth of goods in the charity shops in SE Essex as yet - or a sign that more people are selling off their unwanted bits and bobs themselves rather than giving them to charity. 

 
Whatever the reason, I only managed to find these two vintage sewing patterns - 10p each in the local Salvation Army shop.  Mum fared somewhat better and came home with a gorgeous shell-pink linen top from M&S and a lovely pure cotton summer skirt.  Finding so many supermarket clothes at crazy-high prices reminded me of this very funny and, oh, so true blog post  over at A Thrifty Mrs

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I'm a sucker for a vintage dressmaking pattern.
The staff at the Salvation Army say that donations are always at their most sparse during the summer, the good weather tends to make people car boot their stuff rather than give it away. x