May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
The Cube boardgame, brand new, £5. Whiled away a very wet bank holiday weekend.
Charity Shop Bargains
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Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Wow! That looks like an amazing shop.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
They could probably make more money selling the old featherlight sewing machines.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
I had a vague idea for a thread about the cost of things relative to the amount of time you buy to enjoy the thing i.e. £30 football match/in the ground 2 hours; cd or download album £15/listen to it 10 times = 10 hours; £20 bag of weed/x hours stoned etc. By any sort of calculations along those lines, charity shop 50p novels give about the best value of any routine leisure purchase. 
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Just looked up their website. I wouldn't really call what they have "semi-goth". Mostly, it looks like they're a cheap, fast fashion outlet. I mean they have leather jackets in pink and powder blue. Seriously.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I had a vague idea for a thread about the cost of things relative to the amount of time you buy to enjoy the thing i.e. £30 football match/in the ground 2 hours; cd or download album £15/listen to it 10 times = 10 hours; £20 bag of weed/x hours stoned etc. By any sort of calculations along those lines, charity shop 50p novels give about the best value of any routine leisure purchase.
Yes, books generally are good value for the money. I have a number of book trade places I check on a regular basis. One of my best finds was a medical textbook from the Victorian era found in a free box.
call it what you like. Either way they make more money selling their mostly-monochrome clothing range than they could selling antique sewing machines.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I had a vague idea for a thread about the cost of things relative to the amount of time you buy to enjoy the thing i.e. £30 football match/in the ground 2 hours; cd or download album £15/listen to it 10 times = 10 hours; £20 bag of weed/x hours stoned etc. By any sort of calculations along those lines, charity shop 50p novels give about the best value of any routine leisure purchase.
I bought Rayman: Legends and it took me nearly 400 hours (steam tells you how long you have been playing the game) spread out over two months. Bout a tenner iirc.
Fallout: New Vegas, I've lost count due to re-installs and lots of modding (adding extra content etc) but It cost me less than a score nearly a year ago and I still hammer a session on it at least twice weekly for an hour or two.
Well and truly MY Money's Worth.
I get most of my books on epub now that is so easy, but in the day the charity shop was the don for VFM. I stil go in to browse the shelves and pick bits up tho, got Fear and Loathing campaign '72 for peanuts last month
polly
Well-Known Member
Best platform game ever
I just found some brand new black Ash hi tops for £20 in a Traid, which I normally go in just to scoff at the ridiculous prices.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I still haven't unlocked all the Origins levels
one day...
polly
Well-Known Member
I still haven't unlocked all the Origins levels
Me neither, but they're rubbish. I make my kids play them for the Teensies.
not-bono-ever
meh
Original Belgian edition from 1947
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
Good machine that. I had one of those. In fact I have an old gaggia in the loft since my last upgrade. Must find a home for it.(one of these)
Dieselpunk2000
Well-Known Member
Bought this mid-seventies Olympia Traveller for a tenner.
Complete and working although it could do with a new ribbon.
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
Got a good haul yesterday from the 50p rail, the best one was this, from MNG (Mango), the sequins make a very pleasing tinkly sound when you move 
Also got a black with gold studs 'I'm With the Band' t-shirt from Boohoo, an Adidas cycling top, a black cut out shoulder t-shirt from Pep&Co (googling tells me this is Poundland ), a stripy vest top labelled Converse One Star (not sure if genuine, do they do clothes?), maroon lacy top from Next, a gym/running vest from Primark (hopeful, the spirit is willing... etc 
), and a grey marl thin sloppy oversize jumper, also from Primark.
They range in size from 8 to 18, which just goes to show size labelling is shite and can largely be ignored
Also got a black with gold studs 'I'm With the Band' t-shirt from Boohoo, an Adidas cycling top, a black cut out shoulder t-shirt from Pep&Co (googling tells me this is Poundland
), a stripy vest top labelled Converse One Star (not sure if genuine, do they do clothes?), maroon lacy top from Next, a gym/running vest from Primark (hopeful, the spirit is willing... etc ), and a grey marl thin sloppy oversize jumper, also from Primark.They range in size from 8 to 18, which just goes to show size labelling is shite and can largely be ignored
kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
I seem to have an issue with buying jeans from charity shops that never fit- in a variety of different ways. I have about 20 pairs So I'm doing a plus size jeans stall at the local flea market next weekend - £ 5 a pair £4 for 3/4 length.
So I'm doing a plus size jeans stall at the local flea market next weekend - £ 5 a pair £4 for 3/4 length.
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
I got some new (or almost new) Ben Sherman jeans last month for £3I seem to have an issue with buying jeans from charity shops that never fit- in a variety of different ways. I have about 20 pairs
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Husband got 40-odd Jamaican ragga 7"s for ten quid! There were more of them in the shop too...an unexpected highlight of Weymouth.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
There's a local shop that has an excellent stash of children's comic annuals, all under a fiver but also with an ongoing 3-for-6-quid offer. Today got a threefer for my boys (big fans of Topper, Beano, Buster, Sparky, Cor!! and Dandy) which included a Topper I hadn't previously seen, and which didn't have a year marked on the cover or in the copyright notice. Checked Tony's when I got home and it's the 1964 (as in, published in 1963) edition!
A seriously good result, and the lads are chuffed
A seriously good result, and the lads are chuffed
19sixtysix
Life as viewed from a Gay Gorbals Garret
Don't worry. There were millions of machines made and these came from the Wimbeldon Sewing machine company. Many were broken and all the useful spares were removed. I found this out when I visited the sewing machine museum. I bought bobbins for my 1900 machine which most likely came from one of these machines.
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