Lurkers' Week: What's been your best bargain?

A large brown suede and leather bag in M&S which I got for £5.00..reduced from £95. I had been looking for a brown bag for ages so this was a particularly good bargain.

A press iron for £30.00 from a charity shop. Bought brand new, I suspect it was too heavy for the person who’d donated it. Absolutely brilliant and cost £200 +

I bought a coat from eBay still had tags on wore it a couple of times by the following winter I had lost weight so put it back on eBay and it sold for twice the price I paid!

I bought two wingback 1930s Parker Knoll chairs in original fabric from Facebook for £20 the pair.
I’ve replaced the seat foam, given them a steam clean, touched up the wood and they now sit proudly in my conservatory until I’m ready to let them go to another new home.
They have sprung seats so are ultra comfy too.

Knee high L K Bennett boots for £95 down from £495, the one and only time it was an advantage to have teeny tiny tootsies

I bought my partner a beautiful Mulberry leather coat on EBay for £15 and I paid £50 to have it cleaned.

It’s really beautiful, wonderful quality and he loves it. When I looked them up on line, they cost hundreds of pounds.

A beautiful mother of the bride silk dress and jacket in a charity shop sale cost me £4. It was from John Lewis and i saw the jacket in the actual shop in the sale for £99.

My kilt, my size well once I had slimmed down to where I really ought always to have been my tartan, and my length, I am a bit of a stumpy one. I don’t dare tell my best mate, a verra canny Scot, but it cost me just £5, he paid several hundred for his.

A brand new cath kidston dress on ebay it had tags, came in carrier bag, with receipt and i paid the grand total of £1.90 plus £2.95 postage
Its my one and only bargain i normally hear about other peoples bargains but never find them x

I was going to afternoon tea at a posh hotel and needed an appropriate dress. I found a lovely dress in the House of Fraser sale for £13.00. I got a few positive comments on my new dress but didn’t let on how much of a bargain it was.

Brousing Ebay for a break for myself and teenaged son, I saw a cruise for two weeks, to the Canary Isles, leaving from Southampton just one month later. It was for a twin inside cabin and had a starting price of £ 1 300. I bid £ 1 600, but no-one bid against me so got it for £ 1 300. Royal Caribbean Cruises had put it on themselves, as it was a late cancellation.
Great Holiday - but never seen another like it!

Years ago with 3 teenagers and no money, we bought a good quality oak kitchen that had been removed from a new house as the buyers did not like it. Units, worktops , sink and tiles for £100, my husband fitted them and they served us for 10 years!
I looked up the make for an extra door front to hide our boiler and this was over £100. Absolute bargain!

I've just noticed my giant (3ft) circular bathroom mirror has a little bit of silver spotting. So disappointed as it cost me the huge sum of 50p at a car boot sale nearly 30 years ago. I pushed it home on my bike & got some very strange looks from passing motorists.

I have had some great ebay deals from www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/local-ebay-deals/
It filters out your local items which have to be collected, and you can specify the distance you are willing to travel.
My best bargain was a full pallet of new bricks for only £12, just a couple of miles from my home. It took me 5 journeys to ferry them all to my house, but I now have a lovely double garden wall, full of daffodils right now.
I have also bought a huge, new garden planter for £5 and an almost unused breadmaker for £10, among other things.

A sofa on ebay for 50p that came with a £1 lost down the sides!

A quite heavy, thick bottomed 1930s cast iron frying pan. It was (and is still) in immaculate condition and is quite regularly used. I bought it in a jumble sale in 1991 for 10p.

I brought a piggy bank out of the charity shop was really dirty so I gave it a real Good wash found it was a Dolton. Only £2.50.

Found out a couple of weeks ago that Ryan Air were starting a service to Copenhagen from Newcastle. Books flights for £20 which I considered a bargain. Sadly not sure we will get to use them now!

Was on holiday and live spending time browsing charity shops. Saw a lively white and black soft toy dog. Just loved the look of it and was for sale at £3. A few months later had a visitor with a 1 year old so brought the dog out. Visitor exclained I must be rich to have that soft toy as it cost £80. in shops. Love the toy even more. PS I don't collect soft toys; it just had so much appeal.

I wanted a matching bedding set I’d seen at Dunelm Mill, but didn’t buy as it was so expensive. I had a look on Ebay instead to see if I could find anything in a similar pattern and saw the exact same set I’d had my eye on. I placed a bid and hoped for the best. A week later the auction finished and no-one else had bid against me. I ended up with a matching double quilt, bedspread, 6 pillow cases, 2 cushions and a pair of curtains - all brand new, still in their packaging for the princely sum of… £12.50 including postage! It would have cost me £236 from Dunelm Mill. Best bargain ever!

A year or so ago I bought a beautiful, soft, black leather swing coat for £5 in a local charity shop AND it was reduced from £10.

My husband bought a trilby from a boot fair for £2 50 it had inside a label with Lock & Co Hatters st James street London we found out it was worth £350 00

Wanted a particular colour hat for son’s wedding . Went into local store and saw a hat from afar a decided it was for me whatever price. Fitted perfectly and loved it. Looked at price a it was £7.99 reduced in sale from over £50. I felt great in it.

A M&S gent's cashmere jumper reduced from £99 to 99p in the M&S outlet.