Scope…out?
When charity shops start charging more than retail… something’s gone off in the donations bin. went in for a bargain and left with sticker shock. #HighStreetWoes Read More
Charity Shop
My feet are still UP!
“These boots are made for walking, and that‘s just what they‘ll do, one of these days these boots are going to walk all over you“…a song I remember by Nancy Sinatra. Well it‘s not really what I‘ve been doing a lot of recently as I‘ve been housebound for the whole of December. I can‘t go Read More
Winds of change…
The rapid disappearance of Summer has left me ‘high and dry’, I can’t quite believe how only the other week I was walking around in the sunshine, but now find myself caught up in not only wind, but rain too! It seems so sudden…I just wasn’t prepared for this abrupt season change…and if that wasn’t Read More
Aqua
As June ends, the midpoint of the year concludes with no return. We enter the sign of the crab, Cancer, and July begins. It is fitting that this water sign rules what could be major turbulence with the election on American Independence Day, as well as my late mother’s birthday! (She said she was always Read More
Face in shape?
Walking past a charity shop a face in the window beckoned to me, a face of pure ‘perfection’…from the darkness it seemed to glow. Admittedly it was a beautiful face + a young face…(like always..) but it wasn’t that which drew me in. It was the fact it was on a box for a product Read More
A ‘nothing’ November…
Why? Because I didn’t really have anything to report, I’ve also been very busy with a practical matter that’s been taking up most of my time. So the only item of interest I found was a pair of shoes (pictured above) with the potential to be ‘Cinderella’s slipper’…that’s it. No wait sorry there was also Read More
It’s in the ‘bag’…?
There has been rather a delay in posting and I blame the weather! We’ve been through a heat wave and it’s just been too hot for many things. However the one thing it hasn’t stopped me doing apart from on the 18th/19th of July (when it was way too hot for anything) is getting around Read More
It’s just 50p part two…
It’s been quite a while since I posted regarding my 50p charity shop bargains see here It’s just…..50p!! – Philippa Nestie well with still a real need to continue tightening my costs I have resorted to picking up a number of 50p items once again. (In fact I haven’t really stopped…it’s just that the items Read More
Passion for Purple…love it? hate it?
A quick trail around my usual charity shops I made a connection = the colour purple and not the book or film (not that they aren’t important) but I purely mean the colour purple itself with items from as little as 25p (the Shhh…sleep mask) to £5 for the rather disturbing Wolf bag. Also not Read More
Keeping my options open…?
Well we’ve certainly had a good few weeks of summer sunshine and just as I was out & about searching what sandals were on offer down comes the rain! Oh no v bad timing…so what do you do? Hold on for the next burst of sun I guess, don’t change your plans like the weather! Read More
What suits my ‘palette?’
Feeling in need of a treat/pick me up I decided some new makeup was in order and I was particularly interested in purchasing a makeup palette, though not sure exactly why…brainwashed?? Anyway I was looking for a nude/natural eyeshadow number as I’m not the one for highlighting, illuminating or heaven forbid strobing. Really at my Read More
It’s a ‘Bazaar’ bargain…
Well not exactly but I recently snapped up a Harper’s Bazaar magazine for just £1 at my local charity shop. I would have really preferred paying just 50p…you can’t have everything I guess…though would like too…at least it was cheaper than the official price of £5 (crikey that’s increased…). It does date from May and Read More
Venturing out…slowly…
Unfortunately I’m suffering a very bad cold at the minute (which is just my luck when the weather changes for the better…oh well…) though I did manage to make it out to the charity shops just before my cold really started to kick in..like the picture above of yet another Audrey item (though I’m not Read More
When everything opens up, make mine a Rosé!
It’s January there is still a national lockdown, the weather is miserable and there is nowhere to go apart from nonessential shops (more on that next time or very soon at the least)…so what were my options? Well looking back on some recent shots taken before the latest lockdown in my usual Charity Shops (now Read More
It’s just…..50p!!
Well it’s very hard for lots of people at present, so it’s time to take stock and conserve what you have and try and not spend a penny…! (hmmm…well yes sorry for that pun but it just came out…!). What if you do need/want/desire absolutely have to buy something…like today I bought a make-up sponge Read More
Pearl’s the way…
With more lockdown measures and restrictions ahead sometimes one can only distract oneself to cope with the onslaught of bad news and then more bad news…it’s grim to say the least….so what ‘better to do’ than think of a fashion trend like fake pearls…! (I mean well..what else?) or at least an item I’ve not Read More