Charity Shop or Junk Shop finds.

Somewhere to share your random bargain or not so bargain finds?
I picked up these the other day in Norwich.
The Art Of Juan Oatiz, Star Trek. Every episode of Star Trek as imagined film posters. Love it!
The Album Cover Art of PUNK! So good.
A Is For Armageddon (a catalogue of disasters that may culminate in the end of the world as we know it) Richard Horne (one of Norwich’s finest and all round nice guy)

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Wasn’t in a charity shop but I found The book Untouchables by Brian Shul mislabelled on eBay and paid £5 for it, it’s worth £200+

Oh man, this is my sort of thread - great idea. I spent too much time rummaging in charity shops wherever I can.

Past winners for me include a Kathmandu super light down sleeping bag for £6, an early 80s Akai PJ-33 boombox for a tenner (not my photo but look at it!), and a proper Swanndri bushshirt for £7 (turned out to be too big for me which was a minor heartbreak)

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I thought I’d done ok with the Star Trek book for £3

Was very chuffed with my random new hat find for £5.

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Managed to find a fair amount of nice furniture in charity shops, best being 4x actual Vitra dsw chairs, listed for £25 each.

I picked up this ‘child’s science kit’ from a junk shop awhile ago for £5. It’s a Cona vacuum table top coffee maker it’s missing its burner, but works a treat with a tea light. I’m on the look out for a burner

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Bloody good score that!!!

visiting my sister in brum a few years back found an immaculate pair of formula by edco 26" mtb wheels with mavic d521 rims and a pair of shimano xt on mavic d521 rims again in immaculate condition, some old school mtb'er was having a clear out

the edco's felt so nice and clicky, just had that quality feel to them. should have kept them but they had a wierd proprietary 4 hole rotors

Had to

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No one stealing your cuppa, guaranteed

No one Nicing your cuppa, guaranteed

After a couple of days of negotiation with the local tip, managed to bring this home for a charity donation. Got some really nice details, and it's my size. Put a front wheel off one of my own bikes as a reference. Looking forward to getting this one rideable!

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Wow, such a good find! Some nice details on that. Why the two days of negotiation, were they reluctant to let you have it?

Lucky! My local tip won’t let you take the bikes. I’ve managed to talk them into letting me take one particularly rusty one recently, and once when I had some spanners in the car they let me take a sprung Brooks saddle, but generally it’s always a no when I ask.

Yeah, basically once something has been chucked into the container then only the people who are contracted to take it away can. 1st guy told me to come back tomorrow to ask the supervisor, then the supervisor told me to come back tomorrow to ask the manager, and he let me have it after explaining that it's a local frame builder and that I'd never seen a Longstaff MTB before. Stoked!

That's fantastic, what a score! 🙌

Wonder how it ended up at the tip. Surely a normalton could see the craftsmanship

That Longstaff rescue is ace. Thankfully the tip bikes here do go to projects to be restored, but it does remove scope for bargains. Around the time I found lfgss I got a Tom Bromwich (Coventry framebuilder) from a charity project in Leamington for very good price. My partner has ridden it for nearly 14 years now although it is now a single speed commuter so not it's original form.

I love scoring charity shop finds. At the weekend I picked up a Pure Siesta DAB clock radio from a charity shop in Bristol for £8, although the DAB didn't work FM did. Once home I used the settings menus to reset it and it now gets DAB again.

Want to sub to this as well, having moved to Australia my current best finds are a white Ralph Lauren Polo shirt ($2), Cycling Jersey ($2), Levis Hi Top trainers ($15) and a Hawaiian shirt ($2) all from the same shop! I promptly spilt coffee on the polo shirt and have so far failed to get the stain out, have had to spend another $15 getting the sole glued onto one of the trainers as well.

Vintage Silca pump for £2 at the local car boot.
Bit of paint chipping, but rubber, seals and parts all seem in great condition.

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Helluva find!

Yeah, very pleased! Saw it out the corner of my eye as the chap was packing up his van.