Charity Shops - Comments Reviews

For as many years as I care to remember I have been one of the charity shops biggest fans but just lately I have been avoiding them. Only recently I read a very interesting review here on Dooyoo about charity shops and that review was one that made me really stop and think. In our small town we have five charity shops and four of those ...  Read the complete review

I've always been a fan of charity shops which appear to have lost their tendancy to be a dowdy and unfashionable presence on our high streets and in our town centres. Oxfams, Saves the Childrens and Sue Ryders all still take pride of place within my hometown and, thankfully, I am much better off for that presence. My only gripe is that ...  Read the complete review

It seems every town and village has its fair share of charity shops these days. There is obviously a great need for them. I use them all the time and will always look in a charity shop for an item of clothing or a book orsomething, before I consider buying brand new. For the last couple of years, I have picked up several real bargains, including ...  Read the complete review

we have six charity shops where I live and sometimes I take a moring off to have a good look round. They vary a lot in several ways - 1.the staff- some are very friendly and helpful and some seem to want to show how 'do-gooders' behave - I used to work at Sue Ryder and never had that attitude! 2. The shops - some are ...  Read the complete review

When charity shops first appeared they were places where students and hard-up families could kit themselves out in decent clothes, at very low prices. It seems to me that nowadays most charity shops are pricing their goods so high that people who should benefit from them can't afford to shop there! I was told by one of the assistants ...  Read the complete review

Charity Shops are great fun, there are about ten in my home town, and the highlight of my week is visiting all of them with a tenner in my purse. I have found some really good bargains for the house from net curtains to brass tables. I have even got my winter coat this year for 50 pence and it is nearly new. I did give it a treat at ...  Read the complete review

I know that they are trying to raise money for charity but what they charge now are a joke a lot of the stuff they sell are cheaper to buy new and the stuff they are given is second-hand I no that at a lot of the shops the people i.e. managers get paid which I think is wrong as it is meant to be for charity I agree they should earn some money but ...  Read the complete review

Even nowadays when vintage clothing is chic, charity shops still have a kind of stigma attached to them - the associations with the elderly and impoverished mostly. And to be fair some of them do still smell of wee. But one of the best charities for breaking away from this fusty image is the Salvation Army. I can only speak for the ...  Read the complete review

I wanted to send out a warning about an experience that happened to Me, in a charity shop in my home town of Weston-s-mare. I went inside to have a look around,while looking along the clothes rails a women undone the zip of My handbag and helped Herself to My purse,unbeknown to Me at the time !! I only found out it had gone when I went to ...  Read the complete review

Now I am not ageist but we had posted through our letter box one of the plastic bags that you are supposed to fill with clothes etc, when the GENTLEMAN came back for it we hadn't filled it so Jacksdad said could they come back next week, as we had a new baby, blah, blah. Anyway the GENTLEMAN came back a few days later, well we had forgotton ...  Read the complete review

I know it's a bit specific to my area but there are many charity shops around the country like these. I have 2 hospice shops near to me, 1 I am very impressed with and the other is a local joke. I know these shops are a really a worthwhile cause and I support them wholeheartedly, but it does go to show the difference there can be ...  Read the complete review