Bizarre stuff you have found in charity shops

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1 - today in Oxfam, a framed and signed photo of Ant & Dec ("Thanks for all your support!"), only £4.99

he speak the frenche as the Frenches himselves (snoball), Monday, 24 May 2010 15:09 (fifteen years ago)

2. "Meet Dave" branded headphones, $7

(incidentally I did buy them for the purposes of a gag gift but haven't come across the appropriate situation yet.)

Face Book (dyao), Monday, 24 May 2010 15:12 (fifteen years ago)

3. A bikini that had "Support Dino Rossi" screenprinted on it

Saw it in the window a few times, didn't get a good look at the price tag

musically, Monday, 24 May 2010 15:28 (fifteen years ago)

4 - large Chinese gong with a "temple" style wooden frame

he speak the frenche as the Frenches himselves (snoball), Monday, 24 May 2010 15:29 (fifteen years ago)

5 - large basket of underwear marked "USED UNDERWEAR - WASHED"

he speak the frenche as the Frenches himselves (snoball), Monday, 24 May 2010 15:31 (fifteen years ago)

six years pass...

6 - someone's been having fun with the window display of books:

  • 'Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War', Chris Bellamy
  • 'The Untold History of the United States', Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick
  • 'The American Future: A History', Simon Schama
  • 'Deliver Us From Evil' (a book about the UN), William Shawcross
  • 'The Coming of the Third Reich', Richard C. Evans
  • 'Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln' ('The book that inspired Barack Obama'), Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • 'Against All Enemies', Richard Clarke
  • 'Apocalyse' (author name obscured by another book)
  • a 7" copy of the Ultravox single 'Reap The Wild Wind' (another vague Ultravox nuclear apocalyse song)
and in the middle of the display, the following two:
  • 'My Life', Bill Clinton
  • 'Hard Choices', Hillary Rodham Clinton

darling you were wonderful you really were quite good (snoball), Sunday, 13 November 2016 11:57 (nine years ago)

The novelization of Porky's 2: The Next Day

rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, 14 November 2016 04:56 (nine years ago)

pics or it didn't happen, snoball

El Tomboto, Monday, 14 November 2016 05:06 (nine years ago)

I've got a picture but I don't want to post it because it'll ID the charity shop and by extension the town where I live.

darling you were wonderful you really were quite good (snoball), Monday, 14 November 2016 18:57 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

7 - an actual 12" LP of 'Frampton Comes Alive'.

Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Monday, 27 August 2018 21:01 (seven years ago)


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