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Lozzie

Joined: 25 May 2005
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 06 9:11 am Post subject:
I thought tax-evasion was the Italian national sport, though? Got a lovely great-big jam making pot yesterday for less than two quid. Happy bunny!

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 06 10:36 am Post subject:

tigger wrote:

I did ask someone if it was do-able but they said that the tax system makes it to complicated (you're taxed for breathing in Italy!-well, just about!)

So is there any market for second hand goods in Italy?

hils

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 568
Location: Nottingham

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 06 10:48 am Post subject:
Most recent include - a beautiful funky knitted zip up hoodie (for my 3 yr old) which is turquoise with purple stars. £1.45 A massive turned wood bowl £1 Wool which I buy but have only ever knitted one thing in my life! A Caithness paper weight for £2 very pretty.

gil
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 06 12:55 pm Post subject:
Lovat tweed Argyll kilt jacket in near-perfect nick £15 (they cost a fortune new).

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 06 1:00 pm Post subject:
Anyone notice a surge of nearly new x-Christmas pressies at this time of year?

Karen70

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 10
Location: Svartland, Mercia

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 06 2:58 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Anyone notice a surge of nearly new x-Christmas pressies at this time of year?

Yep. I love this time of year. It's great if you want to pick up cheap (unopened and often very nice) toiletries or gifts for birthdays.

My best (so far) charity shop finds have been a Singer treadle sewing machine, a meat mincer (hand powered like my mum had over 30 years ago), various bits of clothing and fabulous books. I love charity shops because I don't know what I'm going to find.

Wassail

Karen

tigger

Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 725
Location: Bologna (Italy)

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 06 8:21 pm Post subject:

So is there any market for second hand goods in Italy?[/quote]

one or two(literally) second hand clothes shops have opened recently in Bologna (the nearest big city), and there are markets that sell "antiquey" things, but you need a licence for that sort of thing, and there isn't any of the good rummage-around-in sort of second hand stuff and jumble sales just don't exist. There's still a bit of a snobby stigma to it, though I think attitudes are changing a bit. A few years ago some mums were offended when I offered them my daughters perfect cast-offs!

tigger

Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 725
Location: Bologna (Italy)

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 06 8:25 pm Post subject:
[quote="Lozzie"]I thought tax-evasion was the Italian national sport, though? It is! (along with football and food! I've been following the diet thread and stepped on the scales this morning )

Moira

Joined: 26 Sep 2005
Posts: 49
Location: Nottingham

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 06 8:47 pm Post subject:

I'm addicted too. I recently bought a set of cake tins for about 25p each, have bought beautiful green and blue norwegian wool at 20p a ball - an absolute bargain - often get clothes for family quite cheaply and other bits and bobs we need round the house.
But the one thing I have to try and curb is my book buying from charity shops. Books are so good - I want them all. Confession time: I once browsed a charity shop bookshelf and saw about four or five books I used to own and loved, so I bought them all. Took them home and found my name pencilled inside the cover - I'd been clearing my clutter some time before hand and got rid of a few books and now I own them again. Oh dear...

Lozzie

Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 2595

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 06 9:33 pm Post subject:
Moira! I love that story!

puffedpride

Joined: 05 Nov 2005
Posts: 300
Location: bristol

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 06 4:05 pm Post subject:
Just found a luvverly marble chopping board in a Malvern charity shop! Twas a fiver. Was I robbed? Guess they must be pretty dear new.

moggins

Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 942
Location: Gloucester

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 06 4:39 pm Post subject:
I'm a charityshopaholic too, I have 7 pairs of jeans and not one of them was bought brand new Craft books too, I can always find room for just one more.

Lozzie

Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 2595

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 06 8:42 pm Post subject:
Never mind charityshopaholic, Moggins. I'd say you were addicted to jeans!

fenwoman

Joined: 12 Dec 2005
Posts: 509
Location: Tydd St giles

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 06 9:51 pm Post subject:

moggins wrote:

I'm a charityshopaholic too, I have 7 pairs of jeans and not one of them was bought brand new

Craft books too, I can always find room for just one more.

I have 3 pairs of jeans and they all cost £3 a pair brand new from ASDA. The ones in the charity shop were a quid dearer each

Bill

Joined: 01 Feb 2006
Posts: 12

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 06 5:02 pm Post subject:

I like the way that you can tell a lot about a town by its charity shops. In Dorking's charity shops, for example you coudl kit yourself out with everything you woudl need for a skiing holiday and not look out of place in some top resort. Aldershot, on the other hand, caters more for ... err...the other end of the market. We can never pass a charity shop though. Or a car boot sale.
I keep saying to my wife that the world contains just about everything we need in it already. There is no need to buy new stuff. Somewhere, there is exactly what you are looking for, and you might not even realise you needed it until you see it! That is the best thing about charity shops.

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