Charity shops and their prices

Sorry that should have been "May I" not "Can I". There is a voice in my ear saying "we all know the you can ... but whether you may or not is another thing" insert Sunday name where the dots are

Gracesgran - I've long thought that all schools should have a second hand uniform shop. I think those who don't probably have no one willing to run one.

I remember the playgroup and school 50/50 sales (50% to the school, 50% to the seller).

When I helped out at a jumble sale for WI a few years ago, I put my raincoat over the back of a chair behind me...... Sometime later it had gone, either stolen or more than likely sold by somebody!

Not even 50/50 rosesarered

Never wear a coat ( or wear one but keep it on) when helping at jumble sales.?

I tried to find a jumble sale locally to send some things to because I didn't want them to go to the charity shop and even our vicar didn't know of any; they hadn't done one for years. I did like the idea that Emma and Fallon have just organised in Ambridge called a Jumble Trail. You have a map and go to different houses. I imagine each house contributes a fixed fee which is how you raise money for your village fund. It does mean you don't need to "encourage" so many volunteers

I buy a lot of furniture from charity shops to upcycle but a lot of shops have started painting the furniture themselves, not doing a very good job and then charging quite a lot for them.

If they sell then for the good surely, labour free and more money made for their charity

Roses - in the '70s I had a large, much loved, soft leather patchwork handbag in red and purple. At a school jumble sale I thought I'd stowed it away safely behind a stall until I saw a colleague lifting it up. She had been asked the price of 'that teapot cosy'!!

Anyway... the food mixer got sold............ do I care?

I have a hand mixer which works perfectly well

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