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

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!

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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!

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 +

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.