Awesome score at the Salvation Army Thrift Store

[Dunkelheit]

@Nava

In Glasgow’s Salvation Army I got a large table and six matching chairs, done in the Mackintosh style, for I think it was 45 pounds. It was about the price of a single chair. Later I transferred that lease to a friend, and when he left he called the SA to come get their chairs and table back.

o_0 I’d have smacked him upside the head. I love Mackintosh. One of the clients I visited yesterday has a reproduction chair, which she bought for £20 back when that was a decent chunk of change.

eta: Oh, I thought you said when YOU left he sent the furniture back to the SA. I see now it was when HE left. Fair enough.

[Soylent_Juicy]

Pretty much everything I wear comes from second-hand stores but I’m super-picky about what I buy. It has to look new, be a brand name that I wouldn’t be able to afford to buy at retail, and I have to seriously like it. One of my favourite finds is my Lululemon “Scuba” hoodie from Value Village for $40 (retail $125). I also like to go into the Lucky Brand store, look at the jeans for $125 and giggle to myself because I think I paid $14.99 for mine.

The best thing I ever bought at Value Village was classic old-school white 4-wheel rollerskates that fit me perfectly for $7.99.

[robardin]

Hmm. I wonder if this thread could be set to music.

[Dunkelheit]

@Soylent_Juicy

Pretty much everything I wear comes from second-hand stores but I’m super-picky about what I buy. It has to look new, be a brand name that I wouldn’t be able to afford to buy at retail, and I have to seriously like it.

The best thing I ever bought at Value Village was classic old-school white 4-wheel rollerskates that fit me perfectly for $7.99.

I’m super picky in that I have to like it and it has to fit properly, which means I can’t be too picky in other respects. I’m hard to fit because I’m short and heavy but hourglass-shaped, so a lot of ‘fat lady’ things are too big around the waist if they’re able to go around the hips. I can’t believe the amount of ‘fat lady’ clothing that doesn’t have elastic in the waistband. Just doesn’t make sense.

They seem to assume that if we’ve got wide hips, our waists are exactly the same width. Frustrating. The fashion for trousers that don’t actually cover your whole ass is irritating as well. If I’m big enough to need a size 18 or 20, I need a waist that’s more than six inches above the crotch, FFS. I also refuse to buy skirts or trousers without pockets, which seriously limits my options. If I was a skinny wee size 10, I’d be able to find decent jeans and such no problem, though they still would have crappy pockets.

I miss the big-ass Value Village stores back home, as the charity shops here tend to be very small spaces on the high street, so they can’t carry as wide a variety of sizes and styles or offer a big bin of raggy stuff for ultra-cheap.

I, too, once found a perfectly good set of rollerskates at VV or someplace similar. They may have been about $4 at the time.