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I love a charity shop haul & this is my top tip to bag a bargain – I even got a 2K dress for £3.50

HAVE you ever wondered how everyone else finds such amazing bargains in charity shops, from designer clothes to handbags and shoes?

Now, a thrifty charity shop lover has revealed her top tip to help you do the same the next time you hit the high street – and it’s so good they even saw her bag a £2000 dress for just £3.50. 

A thifty bargain hunter has shared how she always bags amazing bargainsTikTok/@duchessofthrift

Duchess of Thrift, Who is on TikTok as @duchessofthrift, regularly shares her charity shop hauls on her social media account.

Now, she’s answered fans’ prayers by lifting the lid on how she does it, with a technique she said never lets her down. 

The bargain lover, who has challenged herself to only buy pre-loved clothes for 12 months, typed: “How do you get the best bargains at the charity shop?

“The tip that bagged me a £2K dress for £3.”

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Duchess of Thrift then said in a video: “On the back of me finding a dress that was worth two grand for £3.50, people messaged me and said, ‘How do you find these bargains in charity shops?

“So my biggest secret is going hyper-local.By hyper-local, I mean that it’s a local charity, it’s restricted to your area.

“My favourite is a local animal welfare charity and bowel cancer west. Then, the hyper-local bit comes in where the shop is located.

“So it’s not in the city centre where they’ve got high business rates and rents, it’s not even in the shopping precinct in the suburbs where they’re still quite high.”

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Instead, Duchess of Thrift said to keep an eye out for “little rows of shops” in “affluent areas where people with more disposable income are likely to live.”

She maintained that this means the clothes will be of a much higher end and, as they earn more, will “give them away more willingly.”

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She said these hidden gems are often much better as they don’t have an online presence so fewer people know about them, and they also don’t sell things via the web first.

The social media star concluded: “So that’s how you get the best, best bargains in the charity shop, so I hope that helps somebody – and happy hunting!”

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I love a charity shop haul & this is my top tip to bag a bargain – I even got a 2K dress for £3.50

HAVE you ever wondered how everyone else finds such amazing bargains in charity shops, from designer clothes to handbags and shoes?

Now, a thrifty charity shop lover has revealed her top tip to help you do the same the next time you hit the high street – and it’s so good they even saw her bag a £2000 dress for just £3.50. 

A thifty bargain hunter has shared how she always bags amazing bargainsTikTok/@duchessofthrift

Duchess of Thrift, Who is on TikTok as @duchessofthrift, regularly shares her charity shop hauls on her social media account.

Now, she’s answered fans’ prayers by lifting the lid on how she does it, with a technique she said never lets her down. 

The bargain lover, who has challenged herself to only buy pre-loved clothes for 12 months, typed: “How do you get the best bargains at the charity shop?

“The tip that bagged me a £2K dress for £3.”

Read More in Charity Shop Haul

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Duchess of Thrift then said in a video: “On the back of me finding a dress that was worth two grand for £3.50, people messaged me and said, ‘How do you find these bargains in charity shops?

“So my biggest secret is going hyper-local.By hyper-local, I mean that it’s a local charity, it’s restricted to your area.

“My favourite is a local animal welfare charity and bowel cancer west. Then, the hyper-local bit comes in where the shop is located.

“So it’s not in the city centre where they’ve got high business rates and rents, it’s not even in the shopping precinct in the suburbs where they’re still quite high.”


Instead, Duchess of Thrift said to keep an eye out for “little rows of shops” in “affluent areas where people with more disposable income are likely to live.”

She maintained that this means the clothes will be of a much higher end and, as they earn more, will “give them away more willingly.”

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She said these hidden gems are often much better as they don’t have an online presence so fewer people know about them, and they also don’t sell things via the web first.

The social media star concluded: “So that’s how you get the best, best bargains in the charity shop, so I hope that helps somebody – and happy hunting!”

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