hi all its the newby again lol, i bought a book on saturday its called ,good food gardening by peter seabrook.it contains
salads
greens
herbs
protecting crops
onions
peas and beans
roots
exotics
fruit trees
rhubarb and fruit bushes
grapes and strawberries
cane fruits
preserving
its all about sowing and harvest and cooking seems a good book but i not read it yet somthing to read dueing the cold winter nights, i only paid £2 from a local charity shop for it so if its not a lot of good not lost a lot but its got to worth a read lol.maybe it will help me learn a bit more lol.
mark
Charity shops are great for bargains. It is amazing what people give away, and I worked in the cat charity shop and gave a load of stuff in and brought a load of stuff back. Even old clothes can be sold for rags and I think it was £2 a bag for the clothes that couldn't be sold. My best bargain was a jigsaw mat for £2 which has been used frequently. Some of the charity shops are getting greedy and the goods are overpriced, why pay £1.50 for a paper backed book when I can go to the library, but must say I have had some good bargains. Must clear out my cupboards as we all seem to store too much rubbish, but someone else might love it.
My hubby took a carboot full of toys and books and bric-a-brac to one of the local charity shops yesterday. I thought they would be pleased as everything was in really good condition and I'm sure, would easily sell.
They told hubby 'ok, we'll take them seeing as you are here'. Hubby told the woman that there was another boot full at home. 'No thank you' was her reply.
He then went to a couple of other charity shops further along the parade and again was told 'No thank you'.
Seems charity shops don't want good quality items any more ::)
Jo.
That is so sad. My cancer charity shop and North London Hospice are very grateful for donations. I think you should complain to the organisation that runs the charity as when I worked I always said thank you to all the lovely people who gave goods, otherwise we would not have had a shop, or anything to sell. The only things we couldn't accept were electrical goods, car seats, prams etc but I always explained that this was because we couldn't be sure of the safety and if a child was hurt we could be sued.
It was the Sue Ryder shop who he gave the first lot to, but it seems that if he hadn't just turned up with it, then they would have declined the lot.
I was flabergasted when he came home and said that they didn't want the second lot. The others who also declined were Help The Aged and an animal charity, I can't remember if it's the RSPCA or the PDSA.
I'll take it all somewhere else next week.
Jo.
Our local charity shop are pleased with most donations.
They only accept one bag of books at a time.They have a problem with storing them.Not enough room. :)
we too lots of our excess toys and books to the local nursery, they were very pleased to have them..mind you, that's a few years ago ;D
Wonder if you live near me jo, the charity shops are the same in this area too and none of them will take books, I actually ended up giving them to the lady who worked there for her husband as he read murder books :)
I don't bother now and just throw the stuff away, although not books. Even our local library wont take them and they are brand new books, well just read twice.
Sinbad
I'm in Leeds, Sinbad.
I'll take all the toys etc. to other charity shops next week, and the books will get recycled via the WI which my hubby's auntie attends. They do regular fundraising book sales for charity.
Jo.
Hi,
I'm in Leeds too and over the last couple of weeks have been taking loads of stuff to charity shops via the Household Waste/Recycling facilities - they collect textiles/clothing/shoes(!) for a number of charities, plus combined books/CDs/videos/DVDs for Oxfam.
I would heartily recommend Oxfam for books etc as they seem to have a specialist department going through all their book donations. They have been very useful for Christmas presents and the city centre store even seems to have a gardening :-)!
Best regards,
Sue
Thanks Sue, I'll bear that in mind.
Where in Leeds are you? I'm in Garforth.
Jo.
Having worked for a charity - books need a lot of work to make them sell. We used to trawl through lots to find the good books and the rest went for recycling. if you try and keep them all until they sell then you quickly run out of storage.
Having said that the charity I woked with were always grateful for any donations. If it wasn't good enough to sell then they had contacts with recyclers who paid by weight.
Car Boots............jumble sales.............. :)
if anyone lives in Wales i know a lady who runs a parrot rescue who is very grateful for books, she sells them on to feed all the 100 and something hungry beaks she has to feed.
i took stuff to a charity shop and they watched me struggle in with the bag told me 'over there' then turned their back on me
edited to add the link to her charity
http://www.parrotcare.info/
I may be breaching thread etiquette - so tell me if i am and i'll start another one. But Mark seems to have found a very good gardenng book so wondered whether anyone else had found any bargains.
I bought "Vegetable Gardeners Bible" in a jumble sale which is an american book but very easy to read and lots of info on raised beds. I also have "Growing under Cloches" a 1950's english book from Oxfam. And recently because I was over at Barnsdale and he had signed it - Nick Hamiltons book on growing veg - which is useful as it has sow to harvest info and germination info included.
Oxfam have an excellent second-hand bookshop a couple of miles away.
We have a charity shop at church, where we take whatever's offered. Mostly we find it dumped on the doorstep. At least 50% has to be thrown away; you should see the filthy rags some people seem to imagine that the poor should wear. It's mostly clothes, and everything's sold for pennies, with quite a lot being given away. Local refugee groups, Probation, and all sorts refer people. We keep one of two garages for unusable clothes; when it's full they go to the rag man to be recycled, and we do at least get something for them. Junk goes in the other garage, and we have a skip once a year or so to clear it out. There's nothing else we can do with stuff we just can't shift.
all i said was i bought a book on saturday its called ,good food gardening by peter seabrook.lol.all i wanted to know realy was have anyone read it or know of it lol what you all like lol.
mark
You bought it on a Saturday? SATURDAY?? Don't talk to me about Saturday, mate, worst day of the week, I can tell ya. I once went out on a Saturday and you wouldn't believe the trouble I had. For a start, there was a.....
(sorry, couldn't resist)
;D