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Pictures of your favourite Charity / Second Hand purchases.

Send me pictures of yourself modeling your favourite purchases, with details of which shop you got them from (if you can remember) to
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From Rhiannon Silver...



The best stripy T-shirt in the world bought years ago from Blue Rinse for under a fiver I think and still not a week goes by when I don't wear it.




Rug from Retro Boutique, no idea where it originates from or how old it is but on first seeing it, my friend Emmy said it was - the perfect 1980s middle class ethnic rug - type rug, and she is so right. It is beautifully faded.




Belts For All Occassions, quite possibly my favourite second hand find ever - from Elephant Books for £1.30 (no longer open i think?). I love this book.




Most recent purchase (not even a week old!) patchwork leather bag £15 from Retro Boutique. I was very excited to find this.




Small Orange Enamel Pans - 80p (!) for the set from Poverty Aid. I have a growing collection of enamelware from all over the world but these are by far my favourite.






The Belts - both date from the eighties. I bought these belts together from Ryan Vintage Clothing on Lower Briggate. I rummaged for ages in this huge, dirty box of tangled belts and got them both for £12. I've had them for over 3 years but I still wear them all the time, the fake Moschino especially always makes me smile.




Lamp - I think it's soapstone - about £9 from Retro Boutique, possibly it had a shade when I bought it but I like it with a bare bulb because it contrasts with the prettiness of the flowers carved on the lampbase.






Piles of magazines - amongst these are a big lot of World Of Interiors magazines I found in Oxfam Bookshop, they had this huge box full of them, they were 50p each and over a period of weeks I'd go back and get a few more until I'd bought them all, it made me very happy!


From Katie...



From Katie - You asked for it and here it is, me in my rather fabulous but bad taste shirt from British Heart Foundation in Headingley. It cost me £3 and is originally from Per Una at M&S so I imagine it was at least £30 when new but hardly looks used! It's my favourite Charity shop bargain!


From me...



This t-shirt constantly causes unwanted conversations with real ale fans, but apart from that, I love it. Bought by Anna from Oxfam, Headingley, for her boyfriend Ben who didn't want it (idiot!), so I got it instead!




You could be... the most beautiful vase in the world... Purchased from the now sadly-missed Ambience, Hyde Park Corner.




Brokeback-Mountain-Gay-Cowboy Style, a present from Martha from the Leeds Mind Shop, Headingley.




The last of three novels from Malcolm 'I only wrote one novel' Lowry. Finished off by his wife & his editor long after his alcohol & drug induced death / suicide, this is nevertheless a tight, lucid, paranoiac, frightening read from the author of Under the Volcano, one of the truly great, little known, novels of the 20th Century. It's almost impossible to get your hands on this out-of-print book, unless you happen to stumble across it at Oxfam Bookshop in Headingley, where they always seem to have more examples of Lowry's work than 'most good bookshops'.




Black & white Addidas top, 99p from Help the Aged, Yeadon.