catchthepigeonmutley Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 (edited) I know there was a charity shop thread a while back, but I can't find it. Me and Mrs Catch The Pigeon were doing the charity shops yesterday - one of her favourite Saturday things . In the first one we found an old book called The Universal Home Doctor (Illustrated). It was beautifully bound in dark red with gold titling. As my Dad used to be a bookbinder I appreciated the cover straight away. It was a book for non medical people to identify and treat various ailments that they might get. Glancing through it I thought Mrs CTP (a trained nurse) would find it interesting. There was no date on the frontispiece, but I reckoned it was post war. It had apparently been obtained on mail order from an advertisement in the Daily Sketch newspaper, as the address label was still on the case it was in. Imagine our surprise when we saw that the address was for our first house that we lived in for 13 years. Same street, same house number. Obviously I bought it straight away. I suppose by the law of averages (whatever that is) such coincidences are bound to happen every so often. Edited February 18, 2018 by catchthepigeonmutley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 Kismet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washerboy Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 Please tell me you bought it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobba Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 20 minutes ago, washerboy said: Please tell me you bought it ?????????????????????? His penultimate Sentance was "Obviously I bought it straight away" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washerboy Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 Sorry I’m sure ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 I've bought books before from charity shops and such like just because the cover looked nice or fancy or just different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 I always do ok in the charity shops! Just found a Moore and wright 1" micrometer in its case and with the calibration tool. Doesn't even look to have been used for £5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sha Bu Le Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 Last week Mrs SBL got me a waxed jacket at a charity shop in Newcastle. M & S brand in perfect condition, not Barbour but equally as good. Sell for around £200 in M & S, charity shop price................£10.00p Mrs snatched it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 17 minutes ago, Sha Bu Le said: Last week Mrs SBL got me a waxed jacket at a charity shop in Newcastle. M & S brand in perfect condition, not Barbour but equally as good. Sell for around £200 in M & S, charity shop price................£10.00p Mrs snatched it up. Was it valentines ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sha Bu Le Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 Don't know Mice, Valentines day usually passes me by with barely a notice. Mrs knows I've been checking the charity shops for ages for a Barbour (type) jacket. There were some for sale at Sunderland's monthly joke of a market (except tatty & veg man is good). Second hand and well used, almost all had belonged to shooters or anglers. Naff repairs to wrist area of one arm where the butt of the fly rod rubs or the shotgun catches the sleeve. All priced at £40..............would last not very long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davewh100 Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 3 hours ago, Lord Geordie said: I always do ok in the charity shops! Just found a Moore and wright 1" micrometer in its case and with the calibration tool. Doesn't even look to have been used for £5 can you tell me the lottery numbers for wensday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 1 hour ago, davewh100 said: can you tell me the lottery numbers for wensday If I knew I wouldn't still be paying a mortgage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 (edited) My mother is a helper in a charity shop. Its all older women that run it. If they get something in and they don't know what it is they chuck it. I find that deeply worrying. They chucked a model aeroplane engine a while back Edited February 19, 2018 by Vince Green Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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