Secondhan bathroom suite

Marelli make her an offer. That sounds absolutely gorgeous. I love that period for furniture.

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Of am Vintage online?? I'll have to have a look at that...

Enjoy your bathroom suite Antjexix. We love a secondhand bargain and enjoy browsing in charity shops and auctions. We've had some amazing things. Our G plan dining table, with extra leaf and four chairs cost me £7 and I had a wonderful Irish tweed winter coat from Oxfam vintage online.

I have a friend who would not enter a charity shop. Whatever she buys is expensive and/or designer. There is not a comfortable chair to sit on in her house. The most uncomfortable one was bought at great expense because it looked good. More money than sense.

I buy a lot of books from charity shops and many look as though they have been read once and then taken to the charity shop.

Antjexix. Sorry!

I'm in Asturias Antejix

What about clothes bought online, but then returned as not suitable? If they have been tried on, are they then not 'second hand' when purchased by a new customer.

l,ve no problem at all with second goods, almost everything can be washed cleaned or bleached.

Love second hand stuff! Wish I'd found your treasure first! Hubby and I love browsing the charity shops, car boots, junk shops and antique shops, where ever we go. It saves a lot of stuff going to rubbish dumps too so it's good for the environment.

We've done it in the past. We bought a burgundy (never, ever have a burgundy bathroom suite!) bathroom suite with a huge corner bath, pedestal wash basin and toilet (with no seat) and brought it home in our estate car with the bath strapped on the roof. We had no money for anything new. Happy days.

I have loads of gorgeous clothes including a silk Monsoon evening dress bought on ebay. I would never have been able to buy these things brand new. I also bought an old dresser at a charity shop and gave it a wonder shabby chic look. Actually a lot of my furniture is second hand... Love up cycling

I buy a lot of second hand there are so many fabulous shops now I save a lot of money.You would be surprised items take to Charity Shops I've just bought a lovely sofa that just sat in a spare room hardly used looks new I'm very happy

I was chuffed to bits when I found it tiredoldwoman

She's either daft or jealous or your super bargain . A rolled top bath - what a find !

A woman I know boasted that her son never had new clothes but was always dressed from jumble sales, even in his teens.She also dressed in jumble sale things, even bras and pants! I'll buy from charity shops, but would NEVER buy secondhand undies. Yuk.

I have bought 2nd hand toys for my granddaughter and my friends grand children.I sterilise them with Milton so they are safe for them to play with,(not the children the toys lol)I also buy Happy meals at McDonalds and keep all the toys.We have no young children but there is always some thing to play with when we have young visitors.2nd hand is fine as long as it gets a proper clean.

It took me 40 years to replace my aunt and uncle's furniture which I had when we were first setting up home. The chairs had become quite wobbly. Funnily enough, my son and his partner, having moved to a bigger house, have bought (at what expense I dare not think) a much larger table which is made to look second hand. It appears to have been made out of reclaimed timber. 10-year-old GS think it's terrible and although I had to keep my lip buttoned, I tend to agree with him.

Rubylady your post brought back memories. When we were first married money was so short most things were secondhand. We had our cooker from a neighbour of MIL, beds from my aunt and mum, ding table and chairs drom an advert in the local paper. Things have changed so much in the last 46 years, everyone has to have new these days.

Great post ruby lady!

Ha ha, Radicalnan, my dog too. The best sort.

the only things i wouldn't buy second hand are shoes and underwear, pillows and mattresses. and i would definitely have to have a new toilet seat. apart from those things anything goes. beggars can't be choosers. When i see articles in newspapers showing new fashion and a scarf is priced at £200, or a dress is more than i can afford to spend in a year for all my clothing, it doesn't make me feel deprived at all, i love finding bargains in charity shops.

Even my dog is second hand

Only ever buy new? Good grief. And we wonder why we're disappearing under a mountain of tat. We already need three Earths to sustain our first world level of consumption.

I buy second hand things, but beware of bedbugs! Seriously, they can hide in bedframes, etc.