Young man ... Go to the YMCA

On Saturday Taph and I went to the YMCA garage sale, because it is fun, to go, to the YMCA garage sale (Sorry, but as I write this, that song is still going through my head).

We got there after 12, and in doing so were able to pick up a couple of bargains. Taph managed to pick up all this Tupperware for a couple of dollars.

Y's Buys news

Y's Buys has everything half price at the moment: not sure how long for.

They've also just received a huge stash of handspun wool, which works out a 75 cents a ball after the discount.

Also in Belconnen, it looks like Colleen is back at Vinnies as their wool bin was full as well, with some rather interesting looking bags of yarn in there...

Yarn Ahoy

No-one seems to believe us when we say that the hard-core knitters among us knit all year, not just in Autumn and Winter. However, with Autumn almost upon us Vinnies is finally bringing out the yarn and needles again in quantity.

There was new needles and yarn in reasonable amounts at Vinnies Gungahlin on Saturday (and I only bought enough for a beret). Vinnies Belconnen, certainly the most consistent source of op-shop yarn in Canberra, had a full yarn bin yesterday, according to my sources.

Happy knitting, everyone.

Happy Op Shop Lovers' Day!

(Reprinted from The Shopping Sherpa)

And what better was to mark the day but with the opening of the new Woden Salvos super store? Some people were peachy-keen to be the first through the doors*
and the queue was well formed by ten to nine.There were speeches, of course (Jo, The Woden Manager, looked fit to burst with happiness and pride the whole way through. And rightly so too. I hear she put in very long hours getting the shop ready for opening and it looked great)
We knew it was going to be big but there's big and then there's massive. This was definitely in the later category...They'd obviously been keeping aside some nice stuff for the last little while. The range was excellent and in very good order.We found some treasuresas did everyone else, by the looks of the length of the queue...(*There's about a 100% chance this photo just might have been staged...)

Introducing Barney's Boutique

I received an email from a reader last week saying:

"There's another op shop that's not listed currently. It's called Barney's Boutique and it's at the Charnwood Shops.

It's a little op shop attached to the St Barnabas Anglican Church that collects funds for Anglicare. The address (I believe) is 39 Charnwood Pl, Charnwood ACT. While it's a small shop, they carry nice merchandise for very, very good prices and the people who run it are very sweet.

Their business hours are W-F 1:30pm - 5:30pm and Saturday 9:30am - 12:30pm."

So, of course I had to go check it out... (Alas I wasn't allowed to take a photo inside)

I'd say it's not worth a special trip but when combined with Reruns (also in Charnwood), Hand to Hand (Kippax) and Another Change (Scullin) it would be a worthwhile occasional op shop run.

Need a lid?

Salvos Belconnen seem to have a good selection of orphan tupperware lids. So if you have lost a Tupperware lid and want a replacement head in to Salvos Belconnen.

Say it isn't so!

I picked up a flier for the next YMCA Garage Sale when I was at Y's Buys today:But did you notice? *sigh*

Behind the scenes

Take a virtual tour of behind the scenes in the Warnambool Lifeline op-shops. Pictures and sound.

http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2008/05/15/2245079.htm?site=southwestvic

Looking good!

New Salvos Phillip.Where there are (illegal) donations already...(Perhaps they might like to follow the VIC plan I saw where the Salvos was open Sundays 10am - 2pm for donations only?)Bum. I bet they won't have vege options...But they do have very large TVs. Do you think JB Hi fi left them behind?

They seem to be planning to have a "New" department: